I have been using TileProxy since roughly 2008. After that nothing has really happened, it seems, to the project. Except that google said "Hands off our satellite data you aviation-loving leeches". Considering the traffic Google has on their servers I hardly think the traffic the flightsim community, and even to a lesser extent the part of it using TileProxy, creates could in any way be harmful. But - They seemed to forget "Don´t be evil", and changed it to "Be uncool". I loved Google´s maps and tileproxy, I think they were the best of the services provied back in 2008 at least. After they blocked TP i stopped using it.
I have some questions, as I was thinking of starting to use it again. I hope someone can answer them here.
1. What is happening to the project, is it just dead in the water?
2. What is the best map service to use globally at the moment, and are there map services that are good for specific regions?
3. Can we create a sticky with proxyuser.ini settings so new users, or old ones returning like me, can get up to speed on how to get it working again.
(I managed to get it working using the old info and ini-files found on http://www.edtruthan...proxy/tutorial/ but i think that defaults to Bing maps and they look really bad compared to Google´s)
4. Google are about to release 3D maps of cities using autogenerated topographic data from images. That would totally rock in a flight simulator. Let's hope Google creates Google Flight, or interface with MSFS (dream on) or something like that :) Do you think something like this will eventually happen?
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5.Microsoft has both the satellite data and the flight simulator. Where is the will to combine two obvious things here people?
:)