Comments on: Clearing the Approach https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Chuck https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8380 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:16:19 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8380 Eric,
At the risk of adding to further off topic. For JP2 to GeoTiff try this software.

Tool for working with JP2 and Geotiff files. LizardTech GeoViewer, so far it works great for me. Site is: http://www.lizardtech.com/downloads

Chuck

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8378 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:18:50 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8378 In reply to Eric.

The USGS seems to have a policy of converting their data from industry standard formats to formats that are a PITA.

There’s already a bug filed for this, and some work already coded. I don’t know when it will ship though.

]]> By: Eric https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8376 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:24:14 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8376 Off topic but USGS is no longer offering Geotiff products and I can’t edit the airports without it.” Is there a solution coming ? I am stuck at world editor tutorial # 4…. And I don’t understand the USGS conversion script instructions….

“As part of this data staging effort, USGS is transitioning High Resolution Orthoimagery (HRO) tiled products from an uncompressed GeoTIFF (.tif) image product to a JPEG 2000 (.jp2)”

]]> By: Jim Davies https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8374 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:52:13 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8374 I love this. I’ve been working on modeling out our small town airport here and the surrounding area. My wife and I have had a bit of a chuckle at all the autogen sky scrapers in town though. As a side effect our small town has become small again. 🙂

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8369 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:17:34 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8369 In reply to Greg.

Yep – this fixes the wrongness of tall buildings in the flight path, but without a bigger set of art assets, we can’t get the desired effect of “height where we want it, not where we don’t.” My other comment describes the axes the AG set is supposed to cover.

]]> By: Greg https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8367 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 02:04:16 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8367 On the plus side, there are now no longer any high-rise buildings anywhere near my local airport, and summarily anywhere near my house (*as there shouldn’t be). Bravo!

On the minus side, the local capitol city has taken a turn towards suburbia once again, with the former industrial/commercial buildings supplanted with quaint neighborhood houses and some brownstone row houses.

I win some, I lose some… 🙂

Win some, lose some.

]]> By: Tom Knudsen https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8366 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:41:08 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8366 Testet KBOS, KSEA, KLAX and some other. Works like a charm

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8365 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:16:29 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8365 In reply to Nenad.

Thanks for confirming.

]]> By: Nenad https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8364 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:08:58 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8364 Telepathy is a strange thing…I just tried to figure out by myself yesterday how to fix that and I started with library.txt but didn’t know where to look exactly…Today I checked your blog and…Voila!
I can confirm that your fix worked like charm for me.
Thanks!

]]> By: vonhinx https:/2014/03/clearing-the-approach/#comment-8363 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:08:57 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5235#comment-8363 In reply to Andras Fabian.

Good catch! Thanks. (Sleepless night 😉 You really know your chute backwards.

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