Ortho ZL20

[philmurfin 73]

Hello,

 

Does anyone know if or where I could locate some ortho scenery at ZL20 just for my local area please

I have downloaded at  ZL20 from Bing, Arc and USA2 but then when I try to use it there's just a white screen with printing on it.

Thanks for any help with this

Phil

[tonywob 4,769]

Where is your local area?

ZL20 is hugely overkill and you won't get anything by going that high apart from using 512GB per 1x1 tile. If you really need a high zoom-level, stick with ZL18 which is the max most providers will show and looks good (it also uses a lot of disk space)

 

[philmurfin 73]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your reply,

I live in the UK, I already have some of the UK at ZL19 stored on an external 8TB drive, I just fancied ZL20 for flying low and slow in my own area.

 

Phil

[WebMaximus 372]

I could be wrong but I think the white color with painting on top might be a security thing.

I know I've seen similar things in the past flying over sensible areas such as military areas, nuclear plants etc.

[philmurfin 73]

An interesting thought thanks but I've tried various areas and got the same result.

I think the Bing version had "not yet available" written on it but it let me download a huge great file that took a good few days to download.

[WebMaximus 372]

Must have felt quite annoying finding out after downloading such a huge file.

As was already mentioned, ZL20 is probably still a bit overkill and like you mention seeing on the Bing version...not yet available in most cases.

I have ZL17 all over Europe and works really good for me. However, I do all my flying in the Zibo mod meaning I'm only low right after takeoff and before landing.

I do understand how one might want higher resolution when flying low and slow.

[philmurfin 73]

Do you use an overlay on the ortho and if so what do you use please?

I've tried the ORBX True Earth but it looks a bit Toy Town to me, my thought was that if I could get ZL20 I would not need anything on top as the quality would be so good on its own.

[WebMaximus 372]

I do use overlays but only the default found in X-Plane.

Then I got rid of all X-Plane forests as well as the roads to make what you see down there more realistic.