Google Earth in FSX

[Nick N]

I was playing with this last weekend. It is probably the best scenery editing solution I have ever seen for FSX.

Alrot, you can zoom in and draw the poly line so it is very accurate to the shore line of Lake Valencia. You will loose the islands and any offshore land masses

[PilotDude11]

this is awsome i managed to get a bit of it done for newfoundland but i want to see if i can get the whole island done using google earth data

[alrot]

I was playing with this last weekend. It is probably the best scenery editing solution I have ever seen for FSX.

Alrot, you can zoom in and draw the poly line so it is very accurate to the shore line of Lake Valencia. You will loose the islands and any offshore land masses  and in order to restore those you have to create another layer above the lake exclude, however, if you take the time to draw the lake shore carefully it should restore the lake to perfect shape.

There are a few airports next to the lake and much closer than your home town airport. By using a more accurate shore line poly it should place them correcly and maintain the correct elevations for them.

Also, using a server trick it is possible to feed FSX the Google Earth data while you fly but its quality will be limited to the Google Earth data and it will look a bit flat unless you are flying above a certain altitude.

Eventually someone will figure out how to run Google Earth and the FSX data in sync. It can be done from what I was told last spring when I was introduced to the FSX project.

Yes Nick, I'm pretending to rebuild the entire city the island on the lake ,I wish there would be a way to paste the images of Google satelite map and fit them (in the most closer look like a photo scenery) and paste into the entire city including the capital Caracas 100 miles away from were I am , I wish someone would do something like this

[Nick N]

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I was playing with this last weekend. It is probably the best scenery editing solution I have ever seen for FSX.

Alrot, you can zoom in and draw the poly line so it is very accurate to the shore line of Lake Valencia. You will loose the islands and any offshore land masses

[ATI_7500]

I have not looked at that part yet but I can see where you could spend a great deal of time zooming right down to street level and creating the entire city with incredible accuracy.

Ugh, I wouldn't do that.

FS roads over FS standard city textures look weird already. Imagine that for every road in the whole city!  :o

[alrot]

It seems you have to "Clean " firts the area from the default scenery by creating a total exclusion Map(Bgl) then remake the entire city .,,It would be great if I could paste the satelite images ,But I don't think that's possible

Its Ok But there is a problem , everytime Create or change anything it has to create a map If Im going to make many things it will many maps Bgl ,I wish there would be a way to fit all of them in a single bgl file