Just tried a little bit of Marble canyon myself now. This time with Yahoo!.When I was first flying there a few months ago, it looked pretty good with MSN Virtual Earth already, but Yahoo is just the icing on the cake. Yes there are a few occasional seams between neighboring slides of the aerial survey, but that's still much less patchyness than we're used to from Google.

The colors of Utah. About equally distant from Bryce Canyon and Marble Canyon. I was just checking out the area. That was on a machine with 512 MB RAM and a Geforce 6200 in a PCI bus. So fairly low-end. Image source: Y!Nothing special by Tileproxy's standards, regarding the graphics. But still breathtaking.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174790.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174791.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174792.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174793.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174794.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174795.jpg

Nice Shots CB! I love this entire region. The Colorado Plateau and it's geology has always been a passionate hobby of mine...the sheer delight of exploring this region AT LAST...as it really looks...and enjoying the beauty of it's geologic wealth is beyond question the single most enjoyable thing I've ever done in FS... For the record, river below you is the upper drainage of the Escalante river just west of Captol Reef National Park. The lighter surface rocks in the forground are the famous Navajo Sanstone, formed by an enormous Dune Field in the early Jurassic period said to have rivaled the Sahara's Great Sand Sea. The river here is eroding down into the increasingly red layers of the older Kayenta Formation, formed in the late Triassic from vast mud flats that contain numerous dinosaur tracks throughout the region. To your north, the Aquarius Plateau is capped with sediments from the early Cretateous, after the great extinction of the dinosaurs. Altogether, about 150 million years of earth history sweeping from the right wing tip to the left...

Hi!It seams really nice. Will have to try it!What about some night pics? there is any lights at roads and cities?Thanks,Pringliano

No lights, everything fades to black.For generating lights, I would have to do some seriously complex image processing and factor in side information like population density.Maybe a future version of tileproxy will have an API for image processing plugins, these could then try to synthesize night textures and seasonal textures from the server's raw image data.

Thanks for your answer.I tried to install this...but i'm missing the url....how do I figure it myself..EDIT: Found how...will try it tonight.Thanks in advance

Here are some shots of Meteor Crater, Arizona using Y! imagery. http://www.fs-freeflow.com/images/snaps/snap098.jpghttp://www.fs-freeflow.com/images/snaps/snap099.jpg

Holy Smokes! That looks ... like the real thingEDIT:This crater clearly shows the impact that Tileproxy made on the VFR simming community. Ahem...EDIT Nr #2There should also be some Nuclear blast craters in Nevada. Anyone wants go looking for them?

>Holy Smokes! That looks ... like the real thing>>EDIT:>>This crater clearly shows the impact that Tileproxy made on>the VFR simming community. Ahem...>Hmm, I had not thought of that. You sure had an impact on my use of FSX. As a retired geographer I delight in flying around now looking for features like this one. As for the Nuke test sites......that is a good idea. Let's Google for some locations and see what we can find.

Yes , Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted at the Nevada Test Site by the United States on July 6, 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare programhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_(nuclear_test)

Wow. Those are spectacular. Thanks for sharing.It seems to me that we should have a site where we can share flights that take us to significant features such as the ones being shared here. Could we upload them to Avsim? Perhaps attach to our postings?

Thanks! I am cratered...These are called subsidence craters (Wikipedia has an article about them) and Google finds some further information.Here's some real life shots of them:http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/photos/craters.aspxThat operation plowshare was actually designed to penetrate the surface to create a giant hole.

Me too! Me too! And with my badass Tundra wheels I couldn't resist landing in it... But the problem was how to get out again ;) And then the thunderstorm from the first picture rolled in and I spent the night camping in the tent. The next morning the owner of the property had to tow my aircraft all the way up the rim using a winch and he yelled at me for trespassing and leaving wheeltracks. Okay, maybe not... I could 've made that up. But the property is in fact privately owned.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174916.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174914.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174915.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/174917.jpg

I think forum attachments do not last very long on avsim. After a while they return a 404 (not found) error.Usually latitude and longitude (or nearest airport and flying directions) would be enough to find the feature. That Arizona meteor crater is somewhere in the middle between Flagstaff and Winslow and located south of the freeway. I took off from Phoenix and had to fly northeast for nearly an hour. That was a bad choice ;) There's closer opportunities.The Nevada test site is at the north end of Yucca Valley. But I haven't been there so far.

Nice job. I thought about doing that but remembered that it is easier to land in a place than it is to take off out of it. That crater is spectacular. We visited it a few years back and it is just as impressive on the ground. TP sure does put it in perspective though.