Work is progressing with the South Island. You can see above that the North Canterbury hills around Kaikoura are pretty large. This area is dry, so I’ve been doing some balancing work because it was so much brighter. In the… Read More ›
Flight Simulation
Lyndiman’s Ortho – Beta 1 Patch
It’s a bit weird to release a patch to a beta release but it’ll help those that have the beta and need the fixes to the tiles that aren’t working. It’s much better to do that than require everyone to… Read More ›
WIP Shot of the day
Wairau Valley:
South Island – 1 tile done, HDD issues
Here’s a few shots from the top of the South Island. These were actually taken before the Overlay went on, so it actually has more details now, with trees, buildings, roads and power lines added on top. There’s quite a… Read More ›
South Island Test
Having begun the South Island I did a quick test on a few images and the results are encouraging. Here’s a random after/before of one of the photos. See if you can find the seam! Initially I thought the South… Read More ›
First Look at the South Island
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!
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
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
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
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 ›
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