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• Northland is done. Now on to Auckland

  By Lyndiman on July 3, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Aside from some issues, Northland is complete. Check out some quick shots of Dargaville, Whangarei and Kerikeri.

• Throwing away Ortho Tiles

  By Lyndiman on July 2, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  So after a day of trying to recover the quality of LINZ aerial photos for Northland I wasn’t happy with the quality inside the sim and threw it all away. Using ArcGIS open data I recreated the tiles and set… Read More ›

• Ortho – Northland

  By Lyndiman on July 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m starting to process Northland and some of it has been really hard work. Here’s a few shots of the tests of the results. I should say that I’m using a mod called Reshade to add contrast and colour to… Read More ›

• NZ Orthophotography: Donationware

  By Lyndiman on June 30, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  I just took a minute and setup a PayPal donation service to help fund the costs of putting together a high quality set of orthos for the entire of NZ. Firstly, a note about donation-ware – you really aren’t buying… Read More ›

• Ortho WIP shots – Blending

  By Lyndiman on June 28, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Just a few WIP shots of the blending in the Waikato that’s going on. This is actually attempt #2 for the tile. Originally, the colour variation came out too weird, so I’ll be going back through the original tiles. Click… Read More ›

• WIP – Bay of Plenty

  By Lyndiman on June 27, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  A few more shots from around the north east of Lake Taupo. You can see Kaingaroa forest. A very large forestry plantation. I’ve also include a photo from space which shows there’s still some colour changes, but this is mostly… Read More ›

• Folding Wellington into the mix

  By Lyndiman on June 25, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Here are 13 shots of what Wellington is looking like after I’ve processed it. I know some shots are quite dark, but I really like the night lighting in X-Plane! I’ve also turned on the frame rate, so you can… Read More ›

• Before & After – low quality ortho

  By Lyndiman on June 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  A quick shot to highlight some of the ortho photography that comes down the line. It’s generally very good quality, but here you can see a seam that’s washed out and very brown. It’s pretty bad quality, so will take… Read More ›

• Progress – Ortho NZ

  By Lyndiman on June 23, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Some good news. I’ve managed to source new Manawatu ortho-photos that match the surrounding areas, ie. not in drought! You can see the change basically below. Looking down to Palmerston North. Before: After: Currently I’m just folding Rotorua into the mix…. Read More ›

• Manawatu – seasonal colours

  By Lyndiman on June 20, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  So another day and little more work done on my X-Plane Ortho set for New Zealand. I’ve done the area around Palmerston North, it’s looking like this right now: Unfortunately, this has left me with the most severe colour changes between… Read More ›