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Sun, Mar 15 2009 20:05

QGIS

Until now I was mainly using fGIS when I wanted to view or edit shapefiles, but since a year or two the updates to fGIS are no longer publicly available due to some license issue. Last week I bought an interesting book about opensource GIS and it brought...
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Sun, Aug 10 2008 9:30

OpenStreetMap rocks!

I had came across the OpenStreetMap project before, but only when I revisited it earlier this week the reail power of it struck me. Let me start with a little explanation about what OpenStreetMap is. It is a free Wiki world map as their slogan says. I...
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Wed, Oct 10 2007 21:18

Geoids, projections, datum, what?

At work I came across this nice article that explains some basics of GIS data projections, datums, geoids, etc. Although the target audiance of it is more the oil industry, I think it would also be good reading for people making FsX terrain scenery and...
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Sun, Jun 10 2007 12:28

Preserve those geo tags

A while ago I wrote about using FwTools to create or manipulate GeoTIFF images for use with the resample tool. One common problem I did not mention right then is that the tags containing this geo information are not understood by every tool. If you for...
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Wed, Mar 7 2007 22:20

Working with FwTools

I have added a new article to the Wiki that explains how you can use FwTools to create GeoTIFF files, which you can use for your photo scenery. There might be other tools to do such tricks, but I am familiar with FwTools as I use it at work. And besides...
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Wed, Feb 14 2007 18:40

Having fun with projections

Using GIS data to create your scenery has become a lot more common in FsX. Vector data can for example converted from shapefiles and for new version of resample can process GeoTIFF images as well. If you have access to this kind of GIS data or can create...
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Fri, Jan 26 2007 23:36

New FwTools version solves some of my trouble

In the past I have already written about the markings I was working on for the Schiphol scenery and at the moment I am finalizing them. The tool I made to convert the lines of these markings into polygons uses OGR as I wrote about in that earlier post...
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Fri, Jan 19 2007 22:09

Am I a data junkie?

At work my collegue and I, we are the ones working on the visual databases for the simulators, are quite well known for our excessive harddisk usage on our development systems. When we are using satelite images in these visual database, it is not that...
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Sun, Jun 25 2006 16:05

Awesome

I would like to point your attention to cool OpenSource project this time, OSSIM . At work we make use of this tool to mosaic different aerial images for example. But it can do a lot other image manipulating related tasks as well, like color matches between...
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Wed, May 24 2006 23:32

Markings

It has been a little quite here lately, but that does not mean I am not doing anything. So time for a little update. Apart from the fact that I have been away for a few days for work (attended a workshop in Engeland), I have also been working on the apron...
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Thu, Feb 16 2006 21:10

GDAL

About a week ago I wrote about OGR, but actually that library is part of a bigger one. That is the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL). And this library offers some very nice features as well. Let me give an example. It comes with a few tools for...
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Wed, Feb 8 2006 20:43

OGR

The last few days I have been using the OGR library at work. As the website says, it is a Simple Feature Library. It allows you to rather easy read, manipulate and write vector features in different file formats (for example DXF or SHP). This can be very...
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Tue, Feb 7 2006 19:17

Datums - Who Needs 'Em Anyway?

Some time ago I made a post about the importance of knowing what projection your data uses etc. Today I came across a nice article on the ESRI site discussing the importance of knowing your datum as well.
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Thu, Dec 8 2005 22:26

TerraVista

At work we use a tool called TerraVista to create the visual databases. This tool has some very interesting features, that are certainly part of my imaginary ultimate-scenery-design tool. TerraVista for example allows you to import a lot of different...
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Mon, Dec 5 2005 23:49

The projection hell

The different projection systems used in geographical data might be one of the aspects of MSFS scenery design that most designers know hardly anything about. But it surely a very important thing. Almost each country has its own projection system and although...
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