Last night I was finalising the South side of Auckland and Raglan area. You can see what I’m doing around airfields here with Ardmore. The Ortho is used as a base layer and hopefully at the threshold you won’t see painted rooftops on the ground. I’ve also removed anything above ground level from the airfield – no painted planes on the ramp, no rooftops etc. With some simple scenery items and overlay this will hopefully come out looking quite immersive.
Inside X-Plane with Global Default Scenery (coming soon)
Categories: Flight Simulation
On a layOver 
Freeware – OSM Overlay for New Zealand and the Chatham Islands 
The (Over)lay of the land 
Lyndiman’s Ortho UHD Mesh Release 
👍👍👍👍👍 patience and dedication!
Great job!
Be interesting to see that in XP with Autogen on top 🙂
I’ve updated the post with a pic from in sim
Yea looks good! When can we download again?? 😀 I’m heading up to Wanaka NZWF from Invercargil NZNV as I work my way back up Sth Island. Should I hold off on my legs until you release?
I do have all of my Ortho and 30m DEMs anyway but would be interesting to compare your work!
Quite a bit of work to do before release. Once it’s done, the whole north island will be around 80GB – which will take quite a while to torrent anyway!
All depends on how fast your upload is to what my download will be like 😉
80Gb, nice what base zoom are you using? I think my Ortho’s with ZL16 base and ZL18 for 2Km around airfields is around 120Gb for North and South combined.. Will check when I get home.
ZL17 everywhere. There’s too many places across the whole country that ppl might want to fly to, to pick and choose more details in some areas.
I have fibre 100MB connection. Speed should be good and unlimited bandwidth. Main problem would be if there’s a lot leeches that don’t seed.
Yea after some of my recent trips around the Alps I certainly could have done with a little more quality on the textures. ZL17 should be a nice compromise though as I was thinking of going back and doing some of the Alps sectors @ 18 so that when I’m cruising close or in the valley’s it would pop a bit more.
Ditto for fibre. I’d be willing to see for a while 😀
One of my concerns for torrenting is being able to version control – if I needed to fix a file – how easy would it be to work that into a active torrent? Or if I have to replace a torrent with a v2, how easy would it be to get all the seeders to actively switch over. Ugh!
I started off with ZL18 but the images are the same resolution but zoomed in 4x more. This makes it really awful to figure out how to blend them together.
Yea version control would be a bugger.. Hmm let me have a look around and see what I can find on that.
You might have to do delta patches e.g. v1.01, v1.02