New York City

by **Gijs** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:51 pm

Hehe, that's part of the "test": a Manhattan shapefile/terrain

Also note the parks and smoother lines at the islands.

by **439Tiger** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:05 pm

Ok, I'll bite... :mrgreen:

When will these new shapefile become available???

by **Gijs** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:15 pm

When they're finished

I think that might be the case next weekend...

Another shot, this time with OSM data (railroad, motorway, primary, secondary):

PS: Click for larger images.

by **penta** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:58 pm

Awesome Gijs!! Now I will focus on the NY skyscrapers models project. In your shots Manhattan looks hundred times better that the actual one.

by **Gijs** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:04 pm

That's exactly the reason I'm doing this! Let's hope more of you decide this is the right time to contribute (again)

by **kyokoyama** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:12 pm

Maybe handdrawn...? I can't answer that.
But either way, nice job, Gijs! I've been waiting for the NYC landclass to improve!

by **Gijs** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:13 pm

kyokoyama wrote in Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:12 pm:Maybe handdrawn...?

Yes, per http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Create_custom_scenery
Hint hint

by **DutchPilotMitchell** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:19 pm

Looks awesome gijs!

by **Gijs** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:05 pm

And here's my first NYC model: 55 Water Street (the textured one on the right)

by **Sealbhach** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:01 pm

Brilliant, great to see NYC getting an upgrade.

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by **i4dnf** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:35 pm

Gijs, looks great, except it appears a bit out of scale. You might want to check the dimensions of that building, but that might be just because it's sits in a bare landscape, and the texture beaneath doesn't help much either

. (dimensions should be 48x97x209 m wxlxh).

by **kyokoyama** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:21 am

i4dnf wrote in Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:35 pm:Gijs, looks great, except it appears a bit out of scale. You might want to check the dimensions of that building, but that might be just because it's sits in a bare landscape, and the texture beaneath doesn't help much either . (dimensions should be 48x97x209 m wxlxh).

Manhattan's a pretty narrow island.. Remember that some buildings in the southern parts of the island take up an entire block -which, of course, you can walk across with ease.
I wouldn't be surprised at that scaling?

by **i4dnf** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:34 am

Yes I know, and scale after all is an optical illusion

. But I said that just to be sure.
Afterall threre are some ugly brown apartment buildings in the default autogenerated scenery that are bigger than that building

, and way out of scale (or they are made for Gulliver and we all live in Lilliput).

by **439Tiger** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:55 am

Gijs wrote in Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:15 pm:When they're finished
I think that might be the case next weekend...

Another shot, this time with OSM data (railroad, motorway, primary, secondary):

PS: Click for larger images.

It's looking very good!!! :mrgreen:

Can't wait to get it...I've got a concept video in my head already

by **Gijs** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:58 pm

Hm, so far I generated the terrain without elevation data. Apparently there was a reason for that, as this is what SRTM-1 gives me:

Looks like they did not take the skyscraper-height into account...
Not sure how to proceed now.

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