Free Flight, Free Speech

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All I can find is 100meter National Atlas imagery, 200MB download, tar.gz, in TIFF format, requiring a login, on http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov.
Time to get my own sattelite.

laserman wrote:
sure.

Hi D-LASER
I pushed.

1) to the x-plane gateway (it will take a few days for the curators to approve)
2) to SH-M repo: https://github.com/SH-M/Festival-of-Fli ... 4159130d98
3) to your RJBB repo: https://github.com/mherweg/RJBB-fg-Cust ... BB.apt.dat
(I re-oriented your repo, by moving this to the "~/Data" folder)

Thanks for volunteering terragearing

please, update the scenery with the new layout accordingly, and shoot me a message to test. (or if something goes awry -- I havent "test" built)
Also, the new layout includes all new parking positions (the previous locations are not reused) so you may want to re-generate the groundnet, using the new dat as well

https://github.com/mherweg/RJBB-fg-Cust ... undnet.xml

Thanks

IAHM-COL

Woohoo!
I'm lovin' it (sorry, McDonalds)

As for Venezuela imagery... guess a communal-social-democratic country doesn't want any sattelites poking their nose in their business, eh?

I'll just stick to making US / AU / NZ airports for now

legoboyvdlp wrote:All I can find is 100meter National Atlas imagery, 200MB download, tar.gz, in TIFF format, requiring a login, on http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov.
Time to get my own sattelite.

The USGS explorer you link here is exactly what I've used. If you click in Overlays/Decimal it will show you lines with exact coordinates. I used the four corners of the first image (center) of the mosaic to locate the image with accuracy, then build the mosaic from there.

IH-COL

I see. Thanks!

Example. This would be kind of the first image for a mosaic of maiquetia



You can see the head of RWY 09. The lines that will be drawn are obvious (not blurry) so resolution is good. Then you have the lat/lon marks with decimals to accurately place the first image.
Then I just keep taking snapshots like that, moving exactly to the left/right or to the top/bottom, leaving a little overhang to be able to build the mosaic. Don't try to take snapshots from too far away because then your overlay is low qual. Don't try to make them too small because you will end up needing way many images. The good point (kind of like above) is where the aprons and the lines are clear.

The second image would look like this



Now, I just moved to the left. The airplane in the low left helps me aligning the mosaic perfectly. I did not move the zoom (not even a tiny bit). Then the overlay grows, the resolution will be still great to trace those lines in the tarmac (that are clear in the picture above too)

Oh! You found it?!
Very, very, very nice.