200 GiB of data were processed over the last 4 weeks, in pre-, main- and post-processing, a stressful time for the computer and me, it worked day and night and generated a total of 112,969 tiles. Many, many buildings (almost a billion in total) were added from Microsoft Building Footprints (MSBF) AFTER matching with OSM, about one third OSM, two thirds MSBF:
510,265,762
buildings from OSM
907,043,878
buildings from MSBF
1,417,309,640
total buildings
Catania, Italy (4k screenshot of X-EUROPE 5.9)
Layer 4-scenery – containing the buildings – has increased dramatically:
Laminar Research recently posted development news for X-Plane 12 and announced the next milestone, the early access release of X-Plane 12.
We are part of the X-Plane developers workspace and thanks to the access, all of the packages (X-EUROPE, X-AMERICA, X-AFRICA, X-ASIA, X-AUSTRALIA-OCEANIA, X-ANTARCTICA) are already adapted for XP12 and actually in the final generation, including the new vegetation and with (besides the current OSM data) much more (exactly 788,235,841) Microsoft global building footprints to complete the landscapes all over the world.
Here’s an overview what’s coming next to illustrate the versions you’ll soon be able to download and fly:
200 gigabytes of data are processed to create over 116,000 tiles. The versions for XP11 and XP12 are almost identical, for XP12 there will be some changes to use the new vegetation, so a new vegetation library is required. The overlap of adjacent packages will be optimised to ensure an impressive flight without gaps between continents. X-A packages will then have the latest developments from X-EUROPE. All new versions for XP11 and XP12 and the new vegetation library will be released at the start of the public beta of XP12 (when it is not on my holiday😊).
Microsoft published on github computer generated building footprints for various countries: USA, Canada, Australia and parts of South America and Africa. Thanks to user @ueid who did the script, we are proud that we now included these footprints into the sceneries to complete and fill poor OSM data.
An impressive number of 213,442,146 buildings are newly added to the continental sceneries.
The last months and weeks I generated > 100,000 tiles, some multiple times, and > 32 GB of data. And we reworked US houses and churches, thanks to Pete for his help. New versions 2.0 are available for
X-AMERICA
X-AFRICA
X-AUSTRALIA-OCEANIA
X-ANTARCTICA
X-ASIA
Key features of the new versions 2.0:
built on latest OSM data
Microsoft building footprints included where available
Layer 3a-details included (you may already know from X-Europe)
new elements: noise-barriers, car repairs, car shops, furniture shops, IKEAs, fire-stations, transformer-towers
