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• 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!

• 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 ›

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