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Forkboy has started to roll out his updated US orthophotos

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Based on the newer / newest NAIP data available, with lots of great improvements and the various features of Ortho4XP 1.30. Utah 2018 and Arizona 2017 have been released so far;

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2017 and 2018 Imagery Packages

The packages that are named "XYZ_2017_torrent" and "XYZ_2018_torrent" are the most recent updates and will supersede all previous packages once complete.  Details on the updated packages are below:

Imagery:

  • Updated imagery dated 2017 and 2018 from NAIP (public domain from USDA Farm Service Agency)
  • Zoom Level 18 near ICAO airports, Zoom Level 17 near other airports, and Zoom Level 16 everywhere else (using Automated Zoom Levels code by Artesim)
  • Extended water masks (including inland waterways) provides textured water along the shorelines of lakes, rivers and oceans.
  • Improved blending between states so there is smooth transition from one state to another.
  • ZL 14 imagery from Sentinel 2 project used to fill gaps along border with Mexico and a few military bases. Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2017 & 2018)

Elevation Data:

  • Based on 1/3 arc-second (about 10 meter spacing) DEM from USGS (most accurate data available for US)
  • Sloped runways with airport smoothing
  • Primary road smoothing
  • Curve Tolerance 0.5 near airports and coasts, and 1.5 everywhere else.
  • Triangle count limited to 2,000,000 to help provide good frame rates everywhere

3D Autogen and road networks

  • Default Xplane 11 layer enabled by default. 
  • HD Mesh Version 3 (for XP10) and HD Mesh Version 4 (for XP11) also included in each package (with permission from alpilotX).

 

 

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/36327-us-orthophotos/

 

 

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Argh still waiting or Great Lakes area!  Pretty neat project nonetheless!

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Great to hear that he is back at it!

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Great news!  I have a hard time flying without Forkboy's orthos below me.  🙂

  • 2 weeks later...
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Washington State has been released

 

EDIT: And he also snuck in Oregon after this post.

Edited by Sethos

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  • 2 months later...

Anyone have issues with some of the areas? I have the following installed with no issues: California, Washington, Oregon. I tried adding Utah and Nevada but they refuse to load. below is my scenery packs ini 

I just started using XP so I'm not sure if I messed things up but why would the first 3 work but not the las two. Thanks for any help.

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SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\Ortho4XP\yOrtho4XP_Overlays/
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Global Airports/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\Ortho4XP\Ortho_Utah_2018\z_ortho_Utah_2018/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\Ortho4XP\Ortho_California_v5\z_ortho_California_v5/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\Ortho4XP\Ortho_Nevada_2017\Ortho_Nevada_2017\z_ortho_Nevada_2017/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\Ortho4XP\Ortho_Oregon_2017\Ortho_Oregon_2017\z_ortho_Oregon_2017/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\Ortho4XP\Ortho_Washington_2017\Ortho_Washington_2017\z_ortho_Washington_2017/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+18-156/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+19-155/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+19-156/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+19-157/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+20-156/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+20-157/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+20-158/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+21-157/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+21-158/
SCENERY_PACK S:\Flightsim Applications\X-Plane Stuff\X-Plane Scenery\PhotoReal\Hawaii\zOrtho4XP_Hawaii_Islands\zOrtho4XP_+21-159/
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KSEA Demo Area/

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Is California out yet?

Oh boy, Forkboy, Mister X Global, ORBX - who would have thought we'd have so many good alternatives by the end of 2019.

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Currently giving X-Plane 12.10 a spin on Shadow PC. 10 years with X-Plane now, since 10.20

Please delete

 

Edited by mokeiko

Francisco Blas
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  • 1 year later...
On 11/3/2019 at 9:25 PM, mokeiko said:

Anyone have issues with some of the areas? I have the following installed with no issues: California, Washington, Oregon. I tried adding Utah and Nevada but they refuse to load. below is my scenery packs ini 

I just started using XP so I'm not sure if I messed things up but why would the first 3 work but not the las two. Thanks for any help.

Just a note for the archives, I had this issue with Utah when I was using "yOrtho4XP_Overlays_HDv4" and resolved it by using the basic "yOrtho4XP_Overlays" instead.

I do use HDv4, so I'm not sure what the real issue is -- but that change did the trick for me.

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