POI Billboards of Russia – St.Petersburg+ (Northwestern Federal District) incl. Kaliningrad area
Now the VFR dream comes true!
Now it is possible to have a detailed information on the area seen 1000 feet below you, injected directly into the scenery!
This upload will add POIs as “POI Billboards” - MSFS static scenery objects, for a given country/area, brought to you by 3DSpotters Team.
Here is Russia NFD with 62146 POI points
broken down to region (all included):
Russia Northwestern Kaliningrad area: RU-NFD-KGD 2388 POI points
Russia NW St.Petersburg+Leningrad region: RU-NFD-StPeterLen 12904 POI pts
Russia Northwestern Pskov/Novgorod: RU-NFD-PskNov 9252 POI points
Russia Northwestern Karelia/Murmansk: RU-NFD-KarMur 17780 POI points
Russia Northwestern Arkhangelsk/Vologda: RU-NFD-ArkVol 13244 POI points
Russia Northwestern Komi/Nenets: RU-NFD-KomNen 6578 POI points
Refer to the included maps.
You may turn ON/OFF each part independently.
Please also check our "POI Billboards of" series for other countries.
To install
Drop the scenery folder from ZIP to the Community folder or (preferably) use any of good MSFS Addon Linkers.
A Technology
POI Billboards, that you will download here, are based on a completely different mechanism than Microsoft/Asobo built-in POI’s. That way you will get thousands (and I mean thousands) of billboard signs scattered all over the country, based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) information, supplied by OSM contributors, with minimal to non-existent FPS hit. You can see a lot of information at once: cities, towns, villages, attractions, train stations, temples, lakes, rivers, island and so on (assuming you have good eyes and paused the simulator). POI Billboards were designed to provide this information to the simmer, while not obscuring the landscape too much and keeping FPS high (well, you will judge).
HOW-TO
=> minimize MSFS loading times:
The only possible using scenery drawback could be extended MSFS loading time, so to minimize the time try the usual ways:
turn OFF Windows File Indexing feature on the disk,
switch ON only the scenery you will really fly VFR in a minute,
keep your sceneries on SSD disks, preferably on M.2 ones,
do the same with all other sceneries/aircrafts/liveries :)
=> minimize scenery size on a disk:
turn ON Windows File Compression feature on the disk; it should have advantage to give you 40% disk space gain and processing overhead should not be high on the other side.
Credits
Credits go to:
OpenStreetMap Authors & Contributors at: https://www.openstreetmap.org
Overpass-Turbo service at: https://overpass-turbo.eu/
WinHour, member of 3DSpotters team, for JAVA POIOSM2FS software tool at: https://github.com/Winhour/POIOSM2FS-Converter
For additional information please refer to docs/files saved on this (first) scenery main folder (when unzipped to Community or elsewhere).
All in cyrillic... simply useless
3 years ago
Come on, you just set HALF of the Star for all the Russian People 😀 😀 😀
And now for serious part: ALL the PBof data is taken form OpenStreetMap as stated CLEARLY in the README. Precedense for taking a billboard text is as follows: international name, english name, LOCAL name and yes - for Russia it is mostly in RUSSIAN, c'mon 😀
3 years ago
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Spacewolf1
оберите щеты мешают
3 years ago
Zaciem oni mieshaiut? Mozhno z niemi zit tak kak i s defoltnymi POI ot Asobo.
Thank you, we always listen to the People's Voice! :D
3 years ago
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MFS400