Cultivation template file for scenProc

    These 2 lines control the placement of the houses on each side of the street.

    PlacePointsAlongLine|FTYPE="LINE" And highway="residential"|SINGLE|16;18|20;21|0|String;type|build1|hdg

    PlacePointsAlongLine|FTYPE="LINE" And highway="residential"|SINGLE|16;18|-20;-21|0|String;type|build1|hdg

    The value |16;18| sets the distance between houses to 16 to 18 metres. I was originally using 20;25 but found it was too sparse for cities, so give that go first then increase it until you get the desired density.

    The value |20;21| and |-20;-21| sets the distance of the houses from the centre line of the street to 20 to 21 metres. Increase this for wider footpaths. There are a pair of lines for each street with one set being negative. You need to change both together or you well get houses closer to the street on one side.

    Even with increased house spacing it look like you will need an include, to get rid of the houses in the background. Unfortunately OSM seems to consider any street with a house on it as residential, even though there might be just a couple.

    Thanks, Chris

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    If you're focused on filling in houses for a small town, you might be able to use the photoscenery approach for trees detection to, instead, detect houses from a bmp image and generate a point for any house that matches the color of other house roofs. Then that shp file can be uses to generate 3D houses for each of those points.

    Quote from kenventions

    If you're focused on filling in houses for a small town, you might be able to use the photoscenery approach for trees detection to, instead, detect houses from a bmp image and generate a point for any house that matches the color of other house roofs. Then that shp file can be uses to generate 3D houses for each of those points.

    Interesting approach. Maybe someone can make a working example. There are lots of small towns with practically zero data for houses.

    Thanks Ken,

    Regards,

    Ray

    Very Good. I will experiment with the settings. Thanks.

    Regards,

    Ray

    Chris,

    Here is a screenshot of Tuscaloosa Alabama cultivation using your ver6 template. Notice the different heights and sizes for the buildings. Thanks for giving this neat feature to the user community.

    Regards,

    Ray

    House detection from photoscenery looks doable ...

    This was with a 11nm x 11nm bmp file from FSET and the following ScenProc filter settings ...

    Just like trees photoscenery detection, this approach would take more effort versus OSM+ScenProc generated houses, but when OSM data is missing around a favorite airport, it seems like another viable option for generating houses.

    Many thanks Chris for your efforts - I'm getting very good results. One thing puzzles me slightly though ..... I get red error messages for each of the "CreateAF2Building" lines saying that 4 arguments are required. (There are 6 in your template.) I deleted the "0" at the end and one of the numbers in the middle and all worked fine. However I don't really know what I'm missing by doing that - maybe something vital for all I know!

    Quote from Ian C

    I get red error messages for each of the "CreateAF2Building" lines saying that 4 arguments are required.

    HI Ian, You may be using a different version of ScenProc. I'm using a ScenProc build dated 16/10/18. You can find this information right at the top of the screen after the version number. I had a look through the changelogs for Scenproc and can't see any changes to CreateAFSBuilding code since 16/10/18. Try updating and see if the problem goes away.

    Thanks, Chris

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    Quote from crispy136

    HI Ian, You may be using a different version of ScenProc. I'm using a ScenProc build dated 16/10/18. You can find this information right at the top of the screen after the version number. I had a look through the changelogs for Scenproc and can't see any changes to CreateAFSBuilding code since 16/10/18. Try updating and see if the problem goes away.

    OK thanks Chris - I'll try that.

    The tacit rule with both ScenProc and MCX from Arno is to always use the latest dev release...

    The latest standard release dates ages ago, so many features are missing. Not sure if Arno will ever update it again ;)

    Cheers

    Antoine

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    Cox, here's an example of a TSC file that has been edited to reference multiple TOC files in the cultivation section at the bottom of the TSC file. In this example, the TSC file is for the KTKI airport. The TOC files should have different names and don't have to include the airport ID.

    The TOC files need to be located in the same folder as the TSC file.

    thank you i will try it now ......................................and YES that worked!!! thanks sooo much

    now just trying to get my head around how to increase housing density usin crispys method so far no joy:(

    what .shp code for generating houses using the above mentioned method???

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    Hi Crispy136 and all template users, I try to make cultivation with your template v6 but I have a problem with forest

    I want to have height trees with (20 or 25 max) and I tried several numbers for randomness : (1;1) ,(0.1;0.1), (0.25;0) ... but always trees are in line when I'm above the forest with a certain angle fo view .

    PlacePointsInPolygon|landuse="forest"|0.0001;0.0001|0.25;0|INHERITPARENTATTR

    CreateAF2Plant|landuse="forest" And FRAND < 0.5|8;20|0|broadleaf

    CreateAF2Plant|landuse="forest" And FRAND > 0.5|10;20|0|conifer

    If someone used small height trees , What is your randomness argument numbers ?

    Thank you

    Have a template update to version 7 getting closer to completion. In the final fine tuning stage. Also waiting on a scenProc update to made available that includes a fix for a bug I identified.

    One of the big changes was a performance improvement. New Orleans dropped from over 2 hours in ver6 to just over 10 minutes in ver7, in spite of adding a fair amount of content. Other less detailed areas saw a 50% drop in processing time. The scenProc script is much more detailed and increases from under 200 lines in ver6 to over 600 lines in ver7.

    Version 7 will deliver also some improved structure construction methods and a number of other improvements. Here is a little sample showing one of the building enhancements, showing a ferry terminal in New Orleans.

    Thanks, Chris

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    Edited once, last by crispy136 (August 27, 2019 at 10:22 AM).