Hi all,
I have been working on custom scenery for France for a while.
EDIT:First release of this custom scenery covering all of continental France is available here: http://www.mguillaud.net/fg/custom-scenery-france-v1.tgz
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
There is also a wiki page about this scenery.
The improvements consist in:
- use of accurate landcover information (Source : European Union, SOeS, CORINE Land Cover, 2006 - http://www.ifen.fr/index.php?id=88),
- landmass according to CORINE data,
- digital elevation data from Jonathan de Ferranti for the alpine area (http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html),
- fitting of the elevation data with 20m accuracy ("terrafit.py -e 20"),
- Road and rail information from OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/).
Pictures are probably more convincing than those technical details, so here are the good ole' after/before shots:
(new scenery left, scenery from terrasync on the right).
This one is around Grenoble:
And this one is looking south from approximately the same place, towards the Trièves. We can see the nice Mt. Aiguille ("needle") sticking out.
Note that this scenery relatively "heavier" than the default scenery, and that old machines might not like this.
Any kind of feedback about possible quirks, etc, is very welcome !
Happy testing !
elmaxo