One of his customers said it's better with OSM2XP freeware sceneries and made this comparison:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-flZ9jFsx96k/UEIeTM1bAGI/AAAAAAAACyY/xtvA4iwbTCs/s2000/comparison.png

 

On the AWG sceneries:

- missing forests (or missing trees in the park)

- missing buildings

- buildings where heights have been specified in OpenStreetMap are not rendered correctly

 

 

upcoming free upgrades

 

OpenStreetMap and OpenSceneryX are always providing free upgrades. If in the future AWG Simulations will create objects, make their own textures, and their own buildings, then their product may become interesting. But for now all I can see is a vendor trying to sell freeware files.

But for now all I can see is a vendor trying to sell freeware files.

 

I think you are probably right. Thanks for helping me sort this out. I hope others benefitted from your comments as well.

 

Best regards,

 

Tom

There is a lively discussion over at the AWG blogsite.

 

'Lively' discussion at xsimreviews too:

 

http://xsimreviews.com/2012/09/01/xsimreviews-1-september-2012/#comment-13337

 

 

'Lively' discussion at xsimreviews too:

 

http://xsimreviews.com/2012/09/01/xsimreviews-1-september-2012/#comment-13337

 

Also at X-Plane.org where he is not answering my questions:

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=61492&st=50#entry674180

 

If he's using OpenStreetMap data as input for OSM2XP, then

- where's the attribution for the work of all the OpenStreetMap contributors ?

- is his product distributed with a share-alike license ?

 

You are free:

 

To Share: To copy, distribute and use the database.

To Create: To produce works from the database.

To Adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database.

 

As long as you:

 

Attribute: You must attribute any public use of the database, or works produced from the database, in the manner specified in the ODbL. For any use or redistribution of the database, or works produced from it, you must make clear to others the license of the database and keep intact any notices on the original database.

Share-Alike: If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produced from an adapted database, you must also offer that adapted database under the ODbL.

Keep open: If you redistribute the database, or an adapted version of it, then you may use technological measures that restrict the work (such as DRM) as long as you also redistribute a version without such measures.

 

Source: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/

 

More interesting links:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_License

http://developer.x-plane.com/2011/04/osm-is-this-legal/

Was away a week in hospital (nothing serious, just something that needed to be "fixed") and got a mail on my iPhone while I was there (about this AWG stuff). First I was surprised, that someone tried a "big thing" ... but after some browsing, I came to the same conclusions as MdMax (to make it short). So, yes, as long as you need a "simple" OSM source and some nice - well its a question of taste, really - glacier textures then this might be a solution ... but then I don't see what the "Terrain" in the product name is about :rolleyes: (because, thats the only word which made me curious in the first place).