Question about photo-terrain textures.

[razz1]

Although I am currently using TileProxy I would like to know what are "photo-terrain textures" as opposed to the actual photo-real landscape as seen in Google Earth?

 

For instance, I live in the New York Metropolitan area and as a one time P.P. have flown over Brooklyn a number of times, but when I fly over Brooklyn in FSX I don't see any of the ground objects that I know are there; like Coney Island beach, major hospitals, Prospect Park, etc.

 

I'm not complaining because I do think the project adds a nice amount of realism to FSX. But if I fly over areas In FSX that I've never been to before I would like to know if I'm seeing some objects that are unique to the area and not just unique 'textures" to that area.

 

Thanks for reading,

 

__JimR

[jalexb88]

Photo scenery such as tileproxy only add large plan view images of the earth into FSX. If I understand what your asking, if there are 3d models of landmarks with photoscenery, unfortunetly not. You will have an accurate (but flat) top-down picture of a landmark with photoscenery. All the 3d buildings you see on photoscenery such as in NYC are default FSX or from other addons. The Photo scenery with tileproxy is straight from yahoo/google maps so its very accurate (not gerneric textures).

 

Alex

[razz1]

Thanks for the reply Alex,

Of course you're right about the 3d models and I don't expect them to show up in TileProxy. I'm perfectly happy 'seeing' top-down scenery and my question was would I see top-down avenues and streets and buildings like hospitals and sport stadiums that I know are there around the New York Area.

 

But I think I answered my own question. To wit -- I took a Google Earth screen shot of Brooklyn from 4,000 feet or so and then I took a screen shot of the same view on FSX with MSN Virtual Earth's Brooklyn.

 

Although the general outlines are correct, the two views are totally different in content and seem to consist of arbitrary buildings and houses. IOW, if someone wanted to see how Brooklyn looked from FSX TileProxy's point of view, it wouldn't look anything like Google Earth's shot.

 

Ok so be it, but I still think TileProxy is a terrific achievement and a great add-on!

 

__JImR