Beyond the Western Desert

[sdsbolt]

So far just more desert as I'm seeing how well it will work.

 

[Pat Pattle]

Nice one! Lots of scope there.

 

[gecko]

Oh wow. Now we can finally do something with all those Vichy paint schemes!

 

[Shessi]

Don't fall off the edge Steve!

S

 

[rbp71854]

I do believe its an addiction, once you have created one theater you want to create more.

 

[dewoitine]

Nice one! An other map for MAW?

 

[gecko]

What are the dimensions on this map Steve?

 

[sdsbolt]

I do believe its an addiction, once you have created one theater you want to create more.

I did get away for a bit

 

[sdsbolt]

What are the dimensions on this map Steve?

Bigger than I had hoped! About 2228km x 2228km

 

[gecko]

Ah, so what we see in the pic is not the full map.

 

[sdsbolt]

Yeah, that's as far out as in flight map will zoom

 

[gecko]

Alright then, keep your secrets.

 

[sdsbolt]

here's the current map

 

[dewoitine]

So far just more desert as I'm seeing how well it will work.


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Hey! It's Oran La Senia?

 

[gecko]

I'm eventually going to need a lesson on how to adjust the boundaries to get the desired mileage and start one of these things myself. But this looks great! Looks like possibly adequate margin at the edges to cover all of Torch/Tunisia without seeing the edge of the map. It also seems like you've broken the 1835km limit and gotten away with it somehow. Is there still a limit to how big it can be?

 

[sdsbolt]

I'm eventually going to need a lesson on how to adjust the boundaries to get the desired mileage and start one of these things myself. But this looks great! Looks like possibly adequate margin at the edges to cover all of Torch/Tunisia without seeing the edge of the map. It also seems like you've broken the 1835km limit and gotten away with it somehow. Is there still a limit to how big it can be?

Thanks for looking at it Dan.

unfortunately there is a limit and I am bumping up against it though I'm not sure what it is.

When I first made a test theater with Gtopo30 data I had no issue with my theater dimensions. Once I redid it with Srtm3 data then ers2tiff wouldn't load the DEM anymore. I was able to get it to work by shaving a bit of dem data from the southern area which I was not interested in anyway . Phew! all good for now.

Maybe there's a limit to the size of the dem data file at about 1.3GB??

 

[sdsbolt]

Hey! It's Oran La Senia?

some airport around Oran.

Is there a list a airports with coordinates? I know I can find some on wikkipedia

 

[dewoitine]

some airport around Oran.

Is there a list a airports with coordinates? I know I can find some on wikkipedia

Hey S, here all North Africa airbases by country and alphabetical order with coordinates, drawings, photos.

bases aeriennes - Le blog de Avions de la Guerre d'Algérie

Participation à l'histoire aérienne de la Guerre d'Algérie, sans polémiques inutiles.

avions-de-la-guerre-d-algerie.over-blog.com

 

[gecko]

Great resource! Though the drawings seem to be all post war. Hard to tell how they might have looked during Torch. I assume fewer were paved in 1942.

 

[dewoitine]

Great resource! Though the drawings seem to be all post war. Hard to tell how they might have looked during Torch. I assume fewer were paved in 1942.

The interest is to have geographic coordinates.