Daniel

I will say this:
– We are very lucky to have Andras and Albert working on the global scenery!!!!!!
– But I can’t guarantee that their work on the global scenery will be as detailed as what they can do in custom scenery, simply due to distribution requirements.
This goes beyond forests…we’ve talked about whether we could produce base meshes at higher mesh res than the global scenery. The bottom line is there’s a ton of data out there and a ton we can do . Global scenery is the beginning, not the end.

Yes, that might be true. But from my understanding we will be quite a bit better with XP10 forests than XP9 was. At least they are derived from the same high quality data source as our custom forests were … so it is only a question of the processing (and how we tune it to make the result fit in the limited DVD space).
To be honest, I hoped, that my custom forests won’t be needed anymore for XP10 (would be quite a PITA to bring all the data and scripts up to the latest level etc.). But this doesn’t mean, that there aren’t ideas floating around (in my head) about “improved” ….uhm … scenery packs.

It is beyond the scope of the global scenery to ship the _most_ accurate possible forest data – I don’t think the global scenery will for example, ever be more accurate than the custom packs that Alpilotx and Albert put out. It’s a question of DVD space.

If you’re not going to use OSM data for forest, are you going to use better data from an other source? Forest in europe where not that good in xp9.

Anyway it looks really promising. I hope you can achieve all your objectives!

Denver

I think it’s great source material for a simulator like X-Plane. And there’s definitely more data that can be used. I do wonder whether the places will look right from up above compared to satellite images. Because houses, trees and roads have very diffident shapes and colors all over the world.

This blog made me very interested about X-Plane 10!

Thumbs up too! I just can’t wait for XP10 ..!

Thumbs up anyway, good job! 🙂

It’s worth mentioning that while most roads in the stock TIGER set look pretty good, railroads are often way out of kilter. I’d encourage mappers to place special focus on making sure railroads don’t have unrealistic bends and turns in them.

There’s a lot of area where National Hydrography Dataset water data is missing. For a list of completed segments and instructions on how to add NHD to your area, visit http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Hydrography_Dataset. If you add a basin or sub-basin, be sure to add it to the list of imported areas on the wiki.

Not for the first pass, no. Generally, we are only planning (for the v10 cut) at this point on using the data listed in the previous post.