I’m not much of a screenshot taker, but I snapped some shots scrolling around New Zealand using my current state of the ortho-photography. I’ve not really noticed any issues with the water, but maybe I’m not missing something. There are… Read More ›
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Testing 1,2,3. Is this thing on?
Greetings, long time now talk. 4 years? Yikes! A little post to announce that I’m moving over to X-Plane 12. I’ve moved all the ‘Lyndiman Orthophotography’ over at about 300GB (I think?). It’s running well with a few areas that… Read More ›
Sky-high Bandwidth!
If you were downloading my torrents and noticed it suddenly finish earlier than expected, you probably aren’t alone. Today I plugged in my gigabit router and my uploads were going 10x faster. Here’s a speed test:
The X-Plane future of Auckland…
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 ›
New Release! North Island R3
After quite a bit of tweaking I’m releasing a new North Island ortho.
Making Napier Green Again!
Sometimes using the latest and highest quality images aren’t the best thing to do. Check out the current imagery for Napier, for example. It is at a resolution of .3M and taken around 2015, but you’ll see that it appears… Read More ›
Down the cost from Raglan
I haven’t had too much time to do much over the past couple of days. But here’s a quick look at the coast just south of Raglan. There’s some weird banding and colours that I didn’t like. Here’s the after:
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 ›
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 ›
NZ Orthophotography: Donationware
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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