When I last looked at this, even a ‘business’ license wasn’t an option.

The problem is that users will use the background imagery to -trace- vector features in their scenery, so we would need a license that allows companies not only to -use- the data (e.g. see it and make judgments in a business) but to make a -derived copy- of it, and Google is much less willing to let people do this, because this is a license to duplicate the database. So just “google maps for business” isn’t quite enough.

Mapping services for business are typically aimed at the high-value non-copying uses of maps. For example, most map providers will give you (a single user) GPS directions for free…but if you run a fleet of trucks, they want a lot of money for this. That’s google maps for business, not actually copying the database.

The one rare exception was OSM, which has negotiated tracing/copying rights from aerial imagery from both Yahoo and Microsoft at one point…they’re a very high profile fully FOSS project. We’d need a license like that. Since WED is very x-plane-centric, it seems like a tough sell.

It is possible but not free, and I am willing to purchase the software with this feature. Google maps got a unit for maps API for business. It is called Google maps for work.

We can’t do that unless you can find a mapping layer that’s legal to trace from.

Sound goooooood thank you!

Possible, yes! Not for 1.4 – 1.4 is being closed up.

But the same tool that makes ATC routes can be used for roads – the code is partly done, so perhaps I can complete this for 1.5.

They are very different. Taxi lines result in a mesh of triangles – and we can handle large-vertex-count meshes just fine. Plus they -must- be curved – this is how the real world works.

The cost of exclusion zones is the cost of the number of edges – so turning the bezier into a lot of tiny edges will make the exclusion zones quite slow…the same as having a huge number of tiny rectangle ones now.

Thank you!

Thanks, but what is the difference between bezier curves on taxiways/taxi lines and exclude zones? Is it that it is not implemented or is it because it cannot be implemented?

Is it possible to make a exclude tool with polygonal features..

A wish full idea is to have 1 tool that has multiple polygonal features like object, exclude and flatten

No.

Since X-Plane doesn’t have polygon exclude, WED can’t write it.

If we do ever have polygon exclude, there is virtually no chance that it will support bezier curves; it would just be flat-sided polygons.