Hello,Recently, I tried FSEarthTiles and covered a small part of the Netherlands with photoreal-textures at download resolution number 2 (= 2m/pix) just to give it a try. And all I can say is: woow, how real! But this small coverage (approximately 1/14 of the whole Netherlands) is already about 350 MB. Then take a lower download resolution, such as 4m/pix. No! This looks horrible, even at FL350. The 2m/pix resolution is by far better than 4m/pix, even at 2000 feet the scenery it already pretty sharp and real. I'm planning to use FSEarthTiles to cover a big part of Europe at 2m/pix but unfortunately there are some problems:1.- It will takes tons of GB's. 2.- It will takes ages to download all tiles, no exaggerating. It can takes days...A solution for the 1e problem is maybe to buy an extern harddisk of 1 TB. And a solution for the 2nd, ... I don't know. Just keeping PC on for 24/7 until it's done?:(- Is there anybody who has some experience with using a big coverage with FSEathTiles, who can help me?Kind regards,Steven

Thanks a million, I just discovered this product, It's Great :D

Thanks a million, I just discovered this product, It's Great :D

Make sure you have a good .ini to get good acces to the services. I'm using service 2, Google Earth for Europe and looks great with 2m/pix, even already at 2000ft. Unfortunately, it takes tons of gb's if you want to cover a whole country :( But maybe I'll buy (in future) 1 TB extern harddisk to save all the tiles there.

I'm doing Dublin at 1m/pixel but for some reason I cant get it to .5m/pixel :(Lookin great, all I need to do now is sigure out how to place autogen...

Hoi Steven.1 Terabyte External Hard Disks aren't that expensive anymore here in The Netherlands ;) By the way, I wouldn't worry too much about downloading taking days, get a good download manager which can manage your downloads and all your PC has to do is stay online :)Good luck, and thanks for the tip! Flying in and out of Holland is going to be much more of a pleasure now!De Groeten!

Hoi Steven.

Hoi Bas

1 Terabyte External Hard Disks aren't that expensive anymore here in The Netherlands ;)

Yup, true. Around 70 a 80 Euro's.

By the way, I wouldn't worry too much about downloading taking days, get a good download manager which can manage your downloads and all your PC has to do is stay online :)

Wich download manager? And FSEarthTiles is a program and you click inside that program at "Run" and it will download and load all tiles into FSX. How you want to manage the download of FSEarthTiles manually, to pause it for example? If there is a way to pause the downloading and loading of FSEarthTiles then it won't be a less big problem to download whole Europe of 2m/pix because it is it worth. Currently using Google Maps and Google Maps look great for the Netherlands but poor in the Alphs. Yahoo Maps looks poor in the Netherlands and great in the Alphs, however Yahoo Maps shows the stupid clouds.

Good luck, and thanks for the tip! Flying in and out of Holland is going to be much more of a pleasure now!

Thank ya and no problem! ;)

De Groeten!

Laterzzz,, :D

There is a program called tileproxy which "streams" the area you can visibly see.

I'm sorry from stealing the topic from the post starter but I just learned about tileproxy and fs earth tiles today. The difference between them is that fs earth tiles lets you use the satellite images to make your own scenery while tileproxy just streams all the scenery of where you are currently flying. Is this correct? Also, is there a way to still get autogen even while using tileproxy or fs earth tiles?

Can we get some screenshots of the scenery with these products installed?

Can we get some screenshots of the scenery with these products installed?

Sure! I'll made some.

See attachmen; Polders in the Netherlands.

I bet that eats up the framerates!

I bet that eats up the framerates!

Fortunately, a big NO!

where can i download this from

Steven, cheers for this.....I hadn't seen it before and certainly makes creating a quick photoscenery much easier than with sbuilder. Which services do you use in your .ini? Having some trouble getting decent results for Europe using the ones I've found so far.