CULTIVATION
THE SIMPLE WAY
Part
One of Two
Firstly
I must point out that I am no expert in making cultivation. Having
spent many years making auto-gen for FSX and P3D having found little
or no help on the internet. I had to do it the hard way learning by
making loads of mistakes and burning the mid-night oil.
Then
I took the quantum leap of purchasing FS 2 and the learning curve
started all over again with little help from the web.
Like
Edison I know of over 100 ways on how not to do it.
So
lets get you started with your cultivation project.
Firstly
you need to download the OSM Data this can be found at this web site
https://extract.bbbike.org
Open
this web page and fill out the left panel with your data selection of
OSM XML gzip'd, your email address ad project or area name.
Then
press the green “here” button to select your area to download.
Don't go mad here and try for a big area, I found around 20 Mbs of
data was OK.
You
can experiment with larger downloads if you like.
Take a screen shot of the download area map and make a note of the village, town or city name near the centre of the area for future reference.
In Win 7 you can use the "Snipping Tool" found in the "Accessories" folder. Save the picture as "Kladow" on your desk top.
In
our example “Kladow” is near the centre. Using Google Earth Map
which you can download free from this link
https://geology.com/google-earth/
make
a note of the Longitude and Latitude not forgetting any minus signs.
In
our example the coordinates are Lat 52.4595 and Lon 13.1375
When
your happy about the area then click on the green button “extract”
and you can watch the progress of your download by clicking on the
bottom status button marked in red in the picture.
You
will also be sent an email link for the download.
The
download should be ready in under 10 minutes depending on the loading
of the system.
I
download on my computer in Win 7 to “Computer”, “Downloads”
on the “C” drive.
You
have to un zip the downloaded data, I use 7- Zip which is free.
Once
you have un zipped the folder you need to change the name to map.osm
because ScenProc will be looking for this file name in part two.
As
an alternative if you are not comfortable using this map you can try
this web site http://download.geofabrik.de/europe.html
Some
of the countries Germany and Great Britain have their counties listed
so its very easy to download a county at any one time.
However
this is OK for England but unfortunately Wales and Scotland are not
in county format and are far too big to process in ScenProc. I tried
Wales but after 3 days ScenProc gave up.
You
need to select the .osm.bz2 folder to download.
This
has to be un-zipped and the name changed to map.osm ready for
processing by ScenProc in part two.
End of part one.
