TILEPROXY for FS9 or FSX - have you ever tried this?

sprocky · Post by **sprocky** » 12 Mar 2008, 21:57

Rip,

you have posted some nice shots but they were mainly taken in unpopulated areas. Could you please post some shots from cities (I am sure you tried already to fly over the house you're living in

)?

Additionally I would like to know if you need a mesh for correct display or if these data (I doubt they will) be retrieved from google, too.

Check out these coordinates:

N51.4055,E12.295 (Google maps shows a facility with a test track.)

I'll be there in 10.5h for a meeting (I need to go to bed...). Guess what they build here

(Hint: SUV)

Thanks.

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 13 Mar 2008, 08:35

You mean Tannewald, just east of Leipzig-Halle EDDP, Sprocky?

And you mean those Porshe Cayenne mini-SUVs?

I published areas mostly covered with heights and mountains before, as I find views there are most dramatic and beautiful. I did fly also around Warsaw and Beijing, a quality of view there depends much on a coverage quality.
Here's very useful service, where you can compare coverage of a few different map servers, especially Google Maps and Yahoo Maps:
http://www.flashearth.com/
Google wins, of course

A mesh: Sure, if you have a proper mesh then your impressions are much better. I used SRTM-based mesh for my pics.
But be aware that some (mostly cloudy) areas have awful holes in SRTM and this means bad distortions (peaks or holes). Then better use other, "hand-made" meshes for this areas, as LOD9-LOD10 meshes for all Himalaya by Holger Sandmann (search Avsim.com, much better then raw SRTM).

Tileproxy author does plan to implement on-line mesh download as well (!) but this time this would mean paying for that stuff a little as a dedicated server and bandwidth would be needed ...

sprocky · Post by **sprocky** » 13 Mar 2008, 14:14

Yep, you are right - the Cayenne's final assembly is there (a different Porsche's final assembly will start soon). I parked my car in the top left corner of that image this morning.

Now if I could only get a higher bandwidth for a good price (which is currently impossible as I live in a small village

). I then could get rid of some HD memory eating photoreal environments.

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 13 Mar 2008, 20:23

OK Jan, so I was there, just over the Porshes

:

So - even a flat and populated area coverage can be perfect (and Germany is covered quite well). Any other flight orders? I'm ready

sprocky wrote:...Now if I could only get a higher bandwidth for a good price (which is currently impossible as I live in a small village ). I then could get rid of some HD memory eating photoreal environments.

There's no ADSL possibility, even from a biggest telecom player on your market there? That's over a telephone line but would run up to 4-6mbps?

It is worth to fly over Germany, as I see it right now, it's even better than the commercial Germany VFR package!

Leipzig center down there:

djnocturnal · Post by **djnocturnal** » 13 Mar 2008, 20:26

how about trying it at a higher speed and seeing what happens

i have version 6 downloaded just not ready to install quite yet...

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 13 Mar 2008, 20:48

djnocturnal wrote:how about trying it at a higher speed and seeing what happens i have version 6 downloaded just not ready to install quite yet...

It depends if tiles are already in a cache or not (they are there at the second time). You can also tune the radius of each tile LOD, so you can have this most detailed cover spread over much bigger area.
I see that tenth of miles are in cache when you "awake" in a given location.

I use v7 in the end (not a bug free though) but hope the author will release v8 soon as well ...

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 13 Mar 2008, 21:08

Here's the "higher speed" experiment-

after about 30nm, 330kts, a first blur came:

after a few minute wait:

djnocturnal · Post by **djnocturnal** » 13 Mar 2008, 21:15

wow, not too bad. do you have extended textures on or off? i'm assuming off by the 67 fps

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 13 Mar 2008, 21:31

I have everything ON, incl. extended textures, well, that Quad Core and 8800GTS, after all ...

Berlin:

sprocky · Post by **sprocky** » 14 Mar 2008, 18:41

RipPipPip wrote: So - even a flat and populated area coverage can be perfect (and Germany is covered quite well). Any other flight orders? I'm ready

There's no ADSL possibility, even from a biggest telecom player on your market there? That's over a telephone line but would run up to 4-6mbps?

It is worth to fly over Germany, as I see it right now, it's even better than the commercial Germany VFR package!

Amazing! It really looks great!

Nope, I am already with the biggest telecom player but the only thing I could get was this 384kbps

Even this was a huge step forward - had 64kbps before. They told me I live too far away to have real DSL. In fact the measured SNR was too bad. The next citizen here that uses DSL lives about 1,000 meters away from my house. I asked my provider when we have a chance for higher bandwidth. He could not tell...

Anyway, if you look for another destination try our headquarter here

N48.685993 E9.177056

Take off from EDDS RWY25 and look over your right shoulder as soon as you left the airport boundaries and crossed a wide road (B27).