It isn't that it's complex, it just takes a lot of time and patience. I started out as Zul just editing OSM but wanted so much more than was possible at the time. Blender is difficult but so very powerful and I find it much more productive than Sketchup (especially for texturing)

 

Keep at it and take little steps, you'll get there in the end

One thing is for sure - being able to fly over your own creations certainly brings a very rewarding feel of achievement!

 

I feel that when I tweak an FDM, and it's a lot less spectacular than looking at a scenery capable of closely rendering what we can see IRL...

 

I would really like to be able to correctly reproduce the places I soar from / into, including the fields of my "vacadas" ( the portuguese glider pilot word for landing out... ) :-)

Europe has the best data so you won't need much of edit / add stuff.  

 

Netherlands / Germany and France is huge in OSM.  Check for Portugal and if it has then just download it and generate it with W2XP see so simple.

 

Well the OSM data which I had was 450MB and I went and deleted it thinking I made a mistake because after generating the whole 500 kms with W2XP the City Pune was only trees and this city has very good OSM data. Maybe it was due to the "forest" to false in W2XP.

 

Here I go downloading it all over again.

 

I will try blender later , I do prefer Blender to sketchup

WAT THE !

 

I just installed the latest JRE and now JOSM does run at all. 

 

Guess I will have to reinstall JDK, This is so stupid nothing is working

And when time spent flying is spent in time stressing with tweaking / editing / FDMing / Scenerying.... :-/

And when time spent flying is spent in time stressing with tweaking / editing / FDMing / Scenerying.... :-/

 

That was during MSFS days  

I think I will tag Landuse=forest which seems like a logical thing for a National park .

 

 

I would really like to be able to correctly reproduce the places I soar from / into, including the fields of my "vacadas" ( the portuguese glider pilot word for landing out... ) :-)

 

Yep, the problem is that good data is very expensive, so we either have to make it ourselves, pay for it or use autogen and a lot of imagination. Denmark and the Netherlands are the two countries I know which give away highly detailed data for free. Most others limit the data in someway (e.g. Norway, NZ and the UK)

I found two glider fields one is the NDA (National Defense Academy) gliderdome and the other to the NE near Pune. I will make these in WED.

I think the Pune Gliding Center should be easy to do. 

HEhe, do that and I will go flying there :-)

HEhe, do that and I will go flying there :-)

 

There are two but one is military they won't allow you

Well, I did fly the PAF gliders at Sintra Airbase :-)

Well, I did fly the PAF gliders at Sintra Airbase :-)

 

You were with the Air force ?  wow

After going to fly from VAJJ helipad heading East towards the Vashi and then turning SE towards Pune following the express way. Let's see how the area looks. Maybe also head to Aamby Valley 

You were with the Air force ?  wow

 

 

No, but we were allowed to fly the Air Academy gliders - not anymore though :-/