Ken's South Florida Towers add so much
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Ray, when I was working on the towers addon I searched the South Florida OSM file for water towers and was surprised to only find 2 if I remember correctly. Are water towers not common in Florida due to the potential damage from hurricanes or is this just a lack of OSM data?
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Just the opposite. At low altitude, like when making approaches, you can typicaally see a dozen or more in any populated community. I added some around one of grass airports a little a North of the DLC cutoff. I will snap a pic to show how many you can see.
It must be the coding in OSM.
Regards,
Ray
Well crap, I evidently overwrote the folder. It is easy to do that when adding stuff with fsCP. I had the water towers as objects in the TSC file and the ttx/tmb files in the folder. If I change anything and download the new airport, I sometimes forget to copy the custom stuff over before deleting the duplicate. duh.
Jake made five 3d water towers. One has dancing legs so bad that I quit using it but, the golf ball shaped ones are really nice and the flat, round one is popular here.
If we had about ten or so tmb graphics to choose from and Nabeel or Phil could figure out how to get them in the choices of their programs we could populate our neighborhoods fairly quickly and easy to place on top of a google map.
Ray
Jakes 3d towers
Any small town now has 5, 6, 7 water towers if they have any outlying subdivisions or industry. My little town of 6,000 has 10 water towers within a 10 mi circle.
Ray
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Ray, short-term you may want to try my TowerProc tool as it will generate its own TSC & matching TOC file for the lighted water towers so it will be separate from your fsCP TSC file.
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Sounds good. How do I call for the lighted water towers. I would think that most of them should be lighted, at least a red flashing light on top.
Ray
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We don't have any non global xref objects in FSCP but it shouldn't be hard to add them. I could try some this weekend, I'd just need 3 things.
- Jpg for the chooser
- Footprint area in metres
- tmb file for download
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Hey Ray, I improved a few of the water towers back in January but never uploaded. Smoothed them out and made a new Multi-leg from scratch due to it shimmering "dancing". No plans on adding picture textures. WaterTower Edit.zip
Edit: 50m multi leg (22m across bottom) / 80m Tower Tee (Top 40m Bottom 12m)
50m Tee (Top 28m Bottom 8m) / 100m Tower Tee (Top 62m Bottom 18m)
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Phil says he will test installing the water towers into his fsCP program this weekend. If that works, it would be a snap to place a water tower using fsCP. He needs a footprint in meters and the tmb file and a small icon image. Got an idea about the footprints?
This is great. I will give them a workout. Thanks.
Ray
Anyone have ideas on how to search for water tower locations in South Florida, maybe some aerial pictures site that will show the towers.
Ray
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https://www.expertgps.com/data/fl/towers.asp
Google is your best friend
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https://www.expertgps.com/data/fl/towers.asp
Google is your best friend
Good tip. Thanks,
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Michael, thanks for finding the US towers database!
I searched the Florida list of water towers and found 52 but unfortunately there aren't any south of the Orlando area so nothing to add to the South Florida DLC.