osm2xp

[wolfram44l]

I have done numerous searches both within the osm2xp site and other forums trying to understand how this program stores the dsf and fac files it creates.   I know that it creates a folder containing 2 subfolders, one "earth nav data" containing the dsf files and the other "facades" containing fac files.   Where do I place these folders?    I am guessing they go in the Custom scenery folder.   I think one has to rename those folders with a "1" in front to make x-plane load them first.  There are separate folders for each state.  ....or do they go into the Global Scenery folder?  Do I have to have Open Scenery x installed to use osm2xp?    I am using ver 10.20 with Windows 7. 

Edited April 15, 2013 by wolfram44l

[MdMax]

Hello !

Don't copy the sub-folders (Earth Nav Data and Facades). Copy the main scenery folder created by OSM2XP to your Custom Scenery folder.

Yes you need OpenSceneryX for OSM2XP sceneries (for forests and other objects):

http://www.opensceneryx.com/

Happy flying.

[wolfram44l]

Thanks for the info.   I had the osm2xp folders for Washington state along with Open Scenery X.   Everything loaded up right, but there were no trees and hardly any structures.   I know that some of the tiles in osm2xp are empty.    Perhaps that one was (Seattle).    Would that be an "exclusion" setting when generating the osm2xp folders?    If there are no trees or structures in that tile area, I would like the default to show through if this is possible.  

[benny]

Hello,

 

Here is the area of Seattle in osm database, http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.642&lon=-122.237&zoom=9&layers=M

 

The building coverage is poor, but the forests seems fine, how the map coverage compare to your xplane scenery?

 

By the way there is a way to have Seattle fully covered with buildings, using a public state shapefile with osm2xp.

It's a bit more hard to do than the "usual" but it's possible.

 

 

here are a few screens of what you can get with this file (before/after - skycrappers are from a third party addon, seems it's from XsimReviews' Simmon) :

 

http://images.osm2xp.com/seattle/1before.jpg

http://images.osm2xp.com/seattle/1after.jpg

 

http://images.osm2xp.com/seattle/2before.jpg

http://images.osm2xp.com/seattle/2after.jpg

 

I Think that the file i used is here : http://files.osm2xp.com/shapefiles/

 

Please note that i'm currently building a website that will distribute generated xplane scenery , and this kind of file will be available on it, but i can't give a release date.

 

 

Regards

 

Ben