Has anyone seen a photoscenery for the big island of Hawaii, so far I have managed to find photosceneries for most other islands but not for this biggest one... Both payware and freeware are OK to me, I just wish to know if such a scenery exists for it or if I have to create it myself.

 

Lately I have started to feel like flying somewhere in tropic again to escape harsh Finnish winter, Hawaii thanks to its good scenery coverage and not too long distances between islands would sure be interesting place to fly around. I simply want to have photoreal coverage for all of those islands, tired of default textures. :smile:

woops wrong island ,always though Oahu was called the big island.

so Megascenery Hawaii has actually named it wrong.

 

 

 

 

 

steve :smile:

No Steve thats not the island he wants. As he said The Island of Hawaii.

So nobody has seen one? I guess I might do one myself then...

Well I wish someone would because it would finish the area of and given what's there I would love it to be photoreal.

The guy that did four islands said he was doing it but that was months ago.

With the exception of O'ahu, all other aerial imagery is done by a private company and licensed out. Even the U.S. and Hawaiian governments must license the data. The license is quite restrictive and carries penalties for failing to abide by the terms of the license.

 

Normally for the U.S. the aerial imagery is done at the request of the state/federal government and the data is subsequently placed into the public domain. That does not apply to Hawai'i, except for O'ahu and any FS-related work done with the imagery I would wager does not have a license agreement. It's not cheap to keep a plane and staff in one state, so it takes a good chunk of change to get a license.