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• First Look at the South Island

  By Lyndiman on July 12, 2017 • ( 4 )

  Last night I took a first quick look at the South Island of New Zealand. My first impressions are that it’s a much more interesting terrain than the North Island, with plains, alps, lakes and sounds. I left this for… Read More ›

• Lyndiman’s New Zealand Orthophotography beta 1 release is here!

  By Lyndiman on July 11, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

    As a soft launch to those that visit this website, the ortho scenery for the North Island is now available as a beta release here! This page is not navigable from my main site yet as it’s a beta… Read More ›

• Ortho Scenery – almost there

  By Lyndiman on July 10, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  A quick update. I believe I’ve assembled my set that will make up a beta test. The package will use batch files to convert the images (thank you for that suggestion!) This will be some work to get it going… Read More ›

• Some re-processing WIP

  By Lyndiman on July 10, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  One of the first areas I did was the Waikato and going back to it now I see lots of mistakes that were made with different sets of images. This made an ugly mosaic that wouldn’t go down well with… Read More ›

• The whole of the North Island is in X-Plane for testing

  By Lyndiman on July 9, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  I’ve now loaded the Ortho for the whole of the North Island into X-Plane. Most of the ortho is done but some areas need tweaks. Other areas, I’ll leave as is because I don’t want perfect to be the enemy… Read More ›

• Wellington Processing x2

  By Lyndiman on July 8, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  After quite a bit of effort I’ve reprocessed the Wellington region to re-colour and adjust the brightness. You can see here the difference in brightness as one of the tiles isn’t fully done on the right: This has removed a… Read More ›

• Wellington has some strong colours

  By Lyndiman on July 7, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  So I’m cleaning up a few areas. Mostly around Auckland Airport which is a pain. I’ve had to hybrid the tile between different sources. In the end I made the seam over Otahuhu as that’s the narrowest part of the… Read More ›

• Ardmore Airfield

  By Lyndiman on July 6, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  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… Read More ›

• Quest Kodiak by Thranda

  By Lyndiman on July 5, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Although I have the FF 757 v2 I really enjoy short flights in light aircraft. Last night I picked up the Quest Kodiak, a turbo prop that looks like a copy of the Cessna Caravan. It’s made specifically for X-Plane… Read More ›

• Ortho – Auckland

  By Lyndiman on July 3, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Auckland is mostly done. I still have to do from Mangere south to the Waikato. After that, I have a few areas to complete in the North Island – Raglan and the East Cape mostly. Getting closer!