Global Surface Water

[rhumbaflappy]

This set 001-008 are a multipart zip file. 7-zip will extract them properly if all are in the same folder... just select GSW ShoreLines.zip.001, then choose 'Extract Here' and a "GSW Shorelines" folder will be created and all 8 files unzipped to it's scenery folder. No separate unzipping will work.

 

[Rami]

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Good morning,

Thread bump...

 

[Rami]

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Good morning,

Okay, so I have the folders downloaded. How exactly does this new setup work?

 

[kdriver]

Andrew, they are in this order after the mesh layers in the scenery.cfg file:

[Area.015]
Title=Exclude Default VTP
Local=ADDON\Exclude Default VTP
Remote=
Active=FALSE
Required=FALSE
Layer=15

[Area.016]
Title=Global Surface Water
Local=ADDON\Global Surface Water
Remote=
Active=FALSE
Required=FALSE
Layer=16

[Area.017]
Title=Global Surface Water ShoreLines
Local=ADDON\Global Surface Water ShoreLines
Remote=
Active=FALSE
Required=FALSE
Layer=17

Specific geographical scenery layers follow on.

EurW as well as water masks or old water and coast layers have to be deactivated.

Kevin

 

[Rami]

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Good afternoon,

Looking through my folders...

I have Rhumba's coast flattens from 2002. Keep or toss?

I have Rhumba's coastlines from 2002. Keep or toss?

What about the DEM LOD 5, 7, and 8 layers?

 

[Rami]

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Kevin,

Have you done any experimenting or flying to see how these layers affect Europe and the Med?

Jean Bomber's files in the Mediterranean may need the same treatment...

 

[kdriver]

Hi Andrew,

Keep everything. You need the old files for some Pacific scenery and the newer water masks for other parts. It's a matter of activating and deactivating layers as required - a bit of a nuisance.

I tested the scenery in northern Europe. Nearly all coastal GSL scenery would have to redone and airfields moved. Sander's scenery, may not be as accurate, but it has rivers, canals and roads which the new scenery doesn't have.

The same applies to Jean's scenery in the MTO.

The new scenery is good for parts of the world with little or no CFS2 development. Mongolia is a good example.

 

[kdriver]

I forgot to mention the alphabetical regions land class layers. I haven't tested those as we don't have 26 sets of textures.

I suppose you could activate Region K which is Great Britain and use the EurW textures. I presume these layers have to be used in conjunction with the other three layers, otherwise there will be land and sea in wrong places.

 

[Rami]

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Kevin,

Thanks, I'm going to keep that folder on the shelf for now, then.

 

[kdriver]

The Global Surface water files are ready for download at my URL.

(Maybe Rami can help get them into the Library. The files are very big.)

"rhumbaflappy"

Richard Ludowise​

April 3, 2019​

Dick, Rome wasn't built in a day. Now that file size has been increased to 2 GB, I'll finally start uploading these files shortly.

Cheers,
Kevin

 

[kdriver]

kdriver submitted a new resource:

Global Surface Water East - Global Surface Water East

The Global Surface Water collection of land-water masks for CFS2 are a set of LWM BGLs that cover the earth with new land and water.

The collection is derived from Europen Commission's Joint Research Centre Global surface Water project's Transition rasters.

Global Surface Water - Data Access

global-surface-water.appspot.com

The cleaning the ocean areas are derived from OSM ocean data.

http://openstreetmapdata.com/

Issues:

The default beaches will need to...

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[kdriver]

kdriver submitted a new resource:

Global Surface Water West - Global Surface Water West

The Global Surface Water collection of land-water masks for CFS2 are a set of LWM BGLs that cover the earth with new land and water.

The collection is derived from Europen Commission's Joint Research Centre Global surface Water project's Transition rasters.

Global Surface Water - Data Access

global-surface-water.appspot.com

The cleaning the ocean areas are derived from OSM ocean data.

http://openstreetmapdata.com/

Issues:

The default beaches will need to...

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[kdriver]

kdriver submitted a new resource:

Exclude Default VTP - Exclude Default VTP

Exclude files for the default CFS2 VTP lines.

The default CFS2 VTPs need to be removed or renamed as .orig extension or excluded by bgls.

Here is a scenery folder which you can use to exclude them without renaming or removing.

"rhumbaflappy"
Richard Ludowise
April 4, 2019

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[kdriver]

kdriver submitted a new resource:

Global Surface Water Shorelines A - Global Surface Water Shorelines A

The GSW Shorelines collection of shorelines for CFS2 are a set of vtp BGLs that cover the earth with new beaches, corresponding to the Global Surface Water LWM water masks.

The collection is derived from Europen Commission's Joint Research Centre Global surface Water project's Transition rasters.

Global Surface Water - Data Access

global-surface-water.appspot.com

The cleaning the ocean areas are derived from OSM ocean data.

http://openstreetmapdata.com/

The...

Read more about this resource...

 

[kdriver]

kdriver submitted a new resource:

Global Surface Water Shorelines B - Global Surface Water Shorelines B

The GSW Shorelines collection of shorelines for CFS2 are a set of vtp BGLs that cover the earth with new beaches, corresponding to the Global Surface Water LWM water masks.

The collection is derived from Europen Commission's Joint Research Centre Global surface Water project's Transition rasters.

Global Surface Water - Data Access

global-surface-water.appspot.com

The cleaning the ocean areas are derived from OSM ocean data.

http://openstreetmapdata.com/

The...

Read more about this resource...

 

[kdriver]

kdriver submitted a new resource:

Global Surface Water Shorelines C - Global Surface Water Shorelines C

The GSW Shorelines collection of shorelines for CFS2 are a set of vtp BGLs that cover the earth with new beaches, corresponding to the Global Surface Water LWM water masks.

The collection is derived from Europen Commission's Joint Research Centre Global surface Water project's Transition rasters.

Global Surface Water - Data Access

global-surface-water.appspot.com

The cleaning the ocean areas are derived from OSM ocean data.

http://openstreetmapdata.com/

The...

Read more about this resource...

 

[kdriver]

kdriver submitted a new resource:

Global Surface Water Shorelines D - Global Surface Water Shorelines D

The GSW Shorelines collection of shorelines for CFS2 are a set of vtp BGLs that cover the earth with new beaches, corresponding to the Global Surface Water LWM water masks.

The collection is derived from Europen Commission's Joint Research Centre Global surface Water project's Transition rasters.

Global Surface Water - Data Access

global-surface-water.appspot.com

The cleaning the ocean areas are derived from OSM ocean data.

http://openstreetmapdata.com/

The...

Read more about this resource...

 

[kdriver]

kdriver submitted a new resource:

Regions - Regions

These are Region folders for CFS2. They contain landclass files in scenery sub-folders, and textures in texture sub-folders.

Each Region_? folder can be added separately into the scenery Library to alter the default landclass.
Textures are required to display properly.
The textures can be replaced in each region to alter the appearance different parts of the world.

Dick Ludowise
"rhumbaflappy"
5/11/2019

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[UncleTgt]

Kevin,

Thanks for preserving these, especially the VTP excludes.

 

[Fibber]

Hi guys ! Rhumba, a quick question here on these. Before my old computer went belly-up I had, IIRC, a similar set of downloads.( I still have them somewhere) Are these completely in lieu of the original sets and can be disregarded (deactivated) ?