I'd like to start this initiative, aimed at creating distributable ortho scenery for flightgear.
Currently we've got sources for
* Europe, for some parts additional sources in higher resolution
* Parts of Australia
* US
What has already been built you can see here
To download the ortho scenery, point your terrasync client at https://cdn.merspieler.tk/oo/
WS3 base scenery needs to be downloaded separately, available here
Note:
You will need the very latest next build to run it since it uses brand new code for the WS3.0 scenery.
In the rendering settings make sure that Photoscenery is enabled and Terrain Quality is set to Ultra.
Initial things, that are needed for this to get to a level of common usability (think available via terrasync or similar):
* DONE: We certainly need a LOD. Especially the Bavaria scenery is of high quality (80cm/px source).
Without it, even the most high end GPUs will reach its VRAM limits very quickly.
I've asked for it on the mailing list but so far I haven't gotten any responce.
* DONE for now, potentially needs funding to keep my stuff up: We need a hosting solution. Tasmania and Bavaria together are about 100GB which is as much as the entire gobal terrasync (without osm2city).
My server could do it but my reverse proxy solution might break, when I load significantly more on it (currently 3.5TB bandwidth/month from terrasync, osm2city and fgaddon).
So if you've got an idea, on how to host it, please bring it up.
Once we've got this settled, all there's left to do, is to find new GPL2 compatible sources (see this for reference) and add them.