Hi,

This is a great mesh, however when you released the mesh and all the patches, NASA had not yet released the Middle East regions (including south balkans and my country of origin Greece and NE Africa) in 1 Arc Second (30m) resolution. There were only available in 90m resolution, either from NASA or De Ferranti, so I assume you based your mesh for these regions on this lower 90m resolution data. These regions have some of the most pronounced relief and needed the 30m SRTM data to represent them in all their glory. However, on 6/7 August 2015, which is after you released your mesh and the 4 patches, NASA released the SRTM 1 Arc Second (30m) for these remaining regions, making coverage trully global. Please see their release announcement here:  https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/nasa_shuttle_radar_topography_mission_srtm_global_1_arc_second_data_released_over_middle_east . Do you have any plans to update your mesh for these regions, and make their resolution trully LOD10? (although I assume this will be a huge patch!). I am looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Respect,

 

Dimitris

Hi,

 

This is a great mesh, however when you released the mesh and all the patches, NASA had not yet released the Middle East regions (including south balkans and my country of origin Greece and NE Africa) in 1 Arc Second (30m) resolution. There were only available in 90m resolution, either from NASA or De Ferranti, so I assume you based your mesh for these regions on this lower 90m resolution data. These regions have some of the most pronounced relief and needed the 30m SRTM data to represent them in all their glory. However, on 6/7 August 2015, which is after you released your mesh and the 4 patches, NASA released the SRTM 1 Arc Second (30m) for these remaining regions, making coverage trully global. Please see their release announcement here:  https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/nasa_shuttle_radar_topography_mission_srtm_global_1_arc_second_data_released_over_middle_east . Do you have any plans to update your mesh for these regions, and make their resolution trully LOD10? (although I assume this will be a huge patch!). I am looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Respect,

 

Dimitris

 

You're on top of things! Yes, we are updating the Middle East with the new data, and we plan to release the new meshes once the USA is complete. It will be a large, special patch with many tile replacements, because there is a lot of new data available thanks to NASA.

Just to update everyone on our plans here at NineTwo Productions.

 

We have several things in the works:

 

 - FreeMeshX 1.05 patch to clean up a few mesh errors reported over the summer

 - Middle East update - updates mesh tiles with new high resolution data released last month by NASA

 - FreeMeshX - USA expansion that bring the USA up to LOD12 (10-m)

 

The Middle East patch is special in that brings new updated high resolution data in this area and the Mediterranean that was not previously available when we first started work on FreeMeshX Global. We had to work with high-res and lower-res data in the 1.0 release, and this sometimes created problems we didn't catch that were remedied in patches 1.01-1.04. With the new data available, we can now create this area as we originally envisioned, and this will help bring new fidelity to the Mediterranean and Middle East. It will also make some of our patches obsolete, as it replaces much of the patched data, thus not dramatically increasing the size of the current FreeMeshX Global 1.04 installation.

 

We're looking to combine the Middle East update with the 1.05 patch, and released two versions of the patch. One will be an incremental patch for 1.04 users, and the other will be an all-in-one merged patch that brings a new user from 1.0 to 1.05 in just one patch.

 

Anyways, FreeMeshX - USA is under active development. No timetable for a release yet, but we are hoping or wishing we can have something ready for you guys for Christmas.

 

Here's some Alaska eyecandy to chew on.

 

 

 

Thans Daniel, you are doing great work for us flight sim fans.

Thanks! Daniel,

 

Good work.

Thanks for the update, Daniel. Looking forward to the updates.

 

I'm loving the mesh, it has replaced FSGlobal 2010 in my sim. Excellent work. 

Thanks for your regular update of an already great package.

 

Gérard

Not good stuff.

 

 

I would rather say: "Great Stuff"  Thank you!

Absolutely awesome! I have found out about this project only now.

I can only agree with what my colleagues wrote above. Thank you so much! 

A hardwork freeware project in payware quality. Great to have such contributors among us.

I can't download Africa part 2 and South America Part 1 from direct download links which are on MEGA because it says File is no longer available. Any solution?

I can't download Africa part 2 and South America Part 1 from direct download links which are on MEGA because it says File is no longer available. Any solution?

 

See this thread!

 

http://www.avsim.com/topic/473087-download-problem/

Could anyone confirm if this works in P3D v3?Would love to try this one out.

 

Regards,

Steven

Could anyone confirm if this works in P3D v3?Would love to try this one out.

 

Regards,

Steven

 

http://www.avsim.com/topic/475662-works-fine-in-p3dv3/

thnx didn't see that one.

 

Steven

Our Middle East update was finished well ahead of schedule today, replacing all instances of LOD9 in that area with LOD10 coverage, and also removing a huge headache trying to work with both LOD9 and LOD10 data simultaneously. We'll be spending lots of time testing it for quality assurance, as we plan to release in an all-in-one cumulative 1.5 patch when FMX-USA nears.

 

We can now focus heavily on FreeMeshX - USA development, and we've been quite happy with our NED source data so far. We're still working out how to best use this data. Obviously, LOD12 would be essential for the mountaineous regions, but areas such as the Great Plains may be left as LOD10 since they have no topography, and we can cut down on disk space usage by doing so. LOD12 is very data expensive, and we useless lossless compression in our files to ensure top quality. For example, a LO10 10 degree latitude by 10 degree longitude mesh tile would be about 300-400 MB. An LOD12 5 degree latitude by 5 degree longitude mesh tile, 1/4 the area, is about 1.5-1.8 GB of data!

 

Sierra Nevada preview:

 

 

Navajo Mountain and Lake Powell (ok, probably too much chromatic aberration here!) preview: