Jersey, Guernsey...Is it possible???

[tonymadge]

Jersey, Guernsey are pretty poorly treated in FS9 (FSX dont count as it treats everyone the same unless they have an American accent :tab: )
I know that Gary Summons did some nice scenery for the airports a while back, no what I am on about is photographic scenery of the islands? Now with google earth, google maps and microshafts virtual earth would it not be possible to make such a scenery backdrop for the islands? I know jacksh@t about scenery stuff so I thought I would ask the question of those clerver than me...just about everyone then!
I am talking freeware, but if a payware one is on the crads it would also be nice to hear of it??

[Rick Piper]

Hi Tony

I don't think the Ch Is yet have proper hi res Google earth coverage which is probably why it's not happened.

A friend of Paul (Basys) was making a good looking Alderney photo scenery but not seen it released.

Regards
Rick

[tonymadge]

Hi Rick
Looking at Google maps Jersey looks high res?

[Rick Piper]

Hi Tony

Just going to run up Tily Proxy and take some shots so you can see what it's like ;o)

Regards
Rick

[Techy111]

Is tily proxy worth the effort of loading Rick...? looks a bit complicated for this thicko... :think:

Tony

[tonymadge]

Cheers Rick, it would be great see the C.I. in proper colour

[Rick Piper]

Hi Tony

I can't get anything better than 1 meter tiles for the channel Islands but it looks far better than it did when i tried it a year ago.
they are still very low res compared to the western Isles for example which are 30 cm resolution and look superb.

sorry for shots but has a jpg conversion problem (rebooted and ok now) but was causing an error so they are an odd size as i uses M$haft Paint to resize them ;o)

Regards
Rick

Jersey





Sark

Guernsey





Alderney

[DaveG]

That looks good Rick
Never had much luck with Tile Proxy myself, especially with Google servers :-(

An alternative is FS Earth Tiles. (http://www.fspassengers.com/forum/read. ... 634&t=4634 )
That downloads the photo tiles then creates either FSX or FS9 scenery files.

[Rick Piper]

Hi DG

I have TP set up as it installs and i manually set google and set the water threshold at 500 meters so that i can see shallow water detail.

the latest version just works.

no fiddling needed really.

try it.

Regards
Rick

[Techy111]

Wow....easy to use...follow the step by step instructions....and voila.....cracking....



Tony