HI there,Has anyone had a chance to observe how the new "plausible" world appears somewhere other than the US?In the land "down under" there are a few factors involved I think... e.g. OSM data is probably not as strong, Elevation info also is probably not quite as good.In XP9 it was common to have roads up the sides of mountains etc. and it looked pretty dodgy. Is XPX any better?Thanks in anticipation.Bruce H (Oz)

Hi Bruce !It all depends on you, not if you're in the US or not. Did you contribute to the OpenStreetMap project ? Would you use OSM maps for hiking around your location ?If you want to improve X-Plane (or FlightGear or other future flight simulators), you can start reading this:http://booki.flossmanuals.net/openstreetmap/_full/http://wiki.openstre...inners%27_guideIn Europe, lakes, roads, rivers, railways and power-lines are a lot better than in X-Plane 9.

Bruce, roads in New Zealand are there but xpx does not always do a good job of drawing them. A lot seem to be like they are overhead rail, i.e. instead of being on the land they are on bridges, not crossing over anything, just elevated. I was able to easily navigate by streets from auckland to my street in a suburb. Having a look at australia I can see the roads appear to be good and you even have some building. Not many, certainly not enough to use to draw a city , just the odd block here and there has been filled in where I looked around brisbane and gold coast. Even though they are there I don't think XPX is using the building information and I don't know how to make it. With respect to you MdMax, our areas have not been automatically populated by government GIS systems and trying to do it by ourselves is really out of the question. Thats another hobby for people who are interested in doing that. Even if I was interested I would use all my simming time and never put a dent on the landscape.

Hi Guys,Thanks for your comments, I guess we could sum it up as "watch this space". As data becomes increasingly available, we may get reasonably good results from XPX.I agree Jason, that without the GIS data available elsewhere it's a big ask.Does anyone know if the DEM is improved over version 9 down our way?Happy Christmas all!Bruce H (Oz)

Jason, you can also help reporting bugs in OpenStreetMap if you don't want to map yourself. If there's something wrong on a place you really know, report it here:http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/But you're right, the drawing of roads in X-Plane 10 is sometimes very strange because of bridges or walls or because the data has been simplyfied:http://www.x-plane.com/blog/2011/08/bezier-curved-roads-from-osm/There's a way to improve this with XPOSM:http://marginal.org.uk/x-planescenery/tools.html