Here’s an easy patch for Auckland in my R3 release. It will improve the terrain around Auckland Central, Isthmus and North Shore / Rodney. This will improve the terrain for scenery packs that others in the community are constructing. Pictured… Read More ›
The problem with building a mesh is that a lot of data sources can get confused when measuring the height of the ground. For example – what if you fire a laser from space to measure the height, but it… Read More ›
After quite a bit of tweaking I’m releasing a new North Island ortho.
I’ve released the first update of the North Island. This is for the region below: I should also mention, I’ve removed links to the rest of the North Island now, which is the older beta release that required converting the… Read More ›
Yesterday I worked on the Coromandel, to tidy up the seam between photo sets. This should mean that I only have some issues to fix around Raglan and the Hawkes Bay before I’m halfway through the North Island redo. Here’s… Read More ›
Redoing much of the North Island means I’m spending a lot more time trying to work in higher quality imagery. Unfortunately, this imagery tends only cover smaller patches of the country, meaning it can appear patchy and awful if it’s… Read More ›
LINZ has been making some changes and released some new aerial photography for Northland and other spots around the country. This was badly needed as the area was unusable. Here’s what it look liked before, and why I couldn’t use… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
A couple of weeks ago I got interested in working Ortho-photographs into X-Plane 11. Here’s where I’m up to. Mission statement: To create and share a seamless, high quality set of X-Plane tiles covering all of New Zealand. Process: Working… Read More ›
