Skybird
10-05-11, 09:38 AM
Found the freeware 38 m mesh for Europe by Raimondo Taburet and J. De Ferranti, called SRTM, a 340 MB download in two parts.
When I read on Aerosoft's page this about FS Gobal 2010:
Features:
(FS-Mesh- and sourcedata in 9m resolution!) for Hawaii (complete) and the southwest of the US, south of 38°N and west of 108°W (ca. Mesa Verde -> Point Reyes)
High Quality Coverage of North America (and p.Canada!): nationwide LOD11 (19m)
Greenland, Iceland and Scandinavia in LOD 9 (76m; standard SRTM resolution)
additional high resolution areas in Europe in LOD11 (19m): High Tatra, Scottland, Hardangervidda (Norway)
huge areas in the north of Russia in LOD9
Antarctica in LOD8
sophisticated new algorithm for correct views of ridges and peaks (most of them should have been higher and will now be nearer to actual value)
new algorithm for reducing irrelevant data for higher data compression
new algorithm for finding and correcting errors
Airport-Patches for prominent problem areas
a tool for the user to correct wrong airport elevations
then I get the impression that probably most of that payware (~ 60 Euros) would cover most of Europe and Germany in LOD10 or even LOD9 only, with translates also into a 38 m/78 mesh, accordding to the table in the review by avsim: http://www.avsim.com/pages/0210/Pilots/FSGlobal.htm.
That review also says that most of the global data covered by that package is LOD-9.
So I assume that it makes little sense to spend that lot of money on FS Global 2010 (I know the 2005 version from FS2004, though, it really makes a difference there) when I am flying mostly in Europe and Germany/Austria/Switzerland anyway?!
Has anyone experiences with the two and can compare them?
Of course I would be grateful for any opportunity to save money. ;)
I would appreciate any tips for a free but good LC and textures for Europe, too.
When I read on Aerosoft's page this about FS Gobal 2010:
Features:
(FS-Mesh- and sourcedata in 9m resolution!) for Hawaii (complete) and the southwest of the US, south of 38°N and west of 108°W (ca. Mesa Verde -> Point Reyes)
High Quality Coverage of North America (and p.Canada!): nationwide LOD11 (19m)
Greenland, Iceland and Scandinavia in LOD 9 (76m; standard SRTM resolution)
additional high resolution areas in Europe in LOD11 (19m): High Tatra, Scottland, Hardangervidda (Norway)
huge areas in the north of Russia in LOD9
Antarctica in LOD8
sophisticated new algorithm for correct views of ridges and peaks (most of them should have been higher and will now be nearer to actual value)
new algorithm for reducing irrelevant data for higher data compression
new algorithm for finding and correcting errors
Airport-Patches for prominent problem areas
a tool for the user to correct wrong airport elevations
then I get the impression that probably most of that payware (~ 60 Euros) would cover most of Europe and Germany in LOD10 or even LOD9 only, with translates also into a 38 m/78 mesh, accordding to the table in the review by avsim: http://www.avsim.com/pages/0210/Pilots/FSGlobal.htm.
That review also says that most of the global data covered by that package is LOD-9.
So I assume that it makes little sense to spend that lot of money on FS Global 2010 (I know the 2005 version from FS2004, though, it really makes a difference there) when I am flying mostly in Europe and Germany/Austria/Switzerland anyway?!
Has anyone experiences with the two and can compare them?
Of course I would be grateful for any opportunity to save money. ;)
I would appreciate any tips for a free but good LC and textures for Europe, too.