POI Billboards of USA - Northeastern States: NY, VT, NH, ME, NJ, PA, CT, RI
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 USA - Northeastern States: NY, VT, NH, ME, NJ, PA, CT, RI with 127970 POI points
(all included):
New York (NY) 37430 POI points
Vermont (VT) 4615 POI points
New Hampshire (NH) 8014 POI points
Maine (ME) 12942 POI points
New Jersey (NJ) 15473 POI points
Pennsylvania (PA) 36091 POI points
Connecticut (CT) 10995 POI points
Rhode Island (RI) 2410 POI points
(Massachusetts is already in another download)
Refer to the included maps.
You may turn ON/OFF each part independently.
Please also check our "POI Billboards of" series for other countries.
This is a new generation of “PBof”:
- a new POIOSM2FS Tool was used,
- a new workflow is in place - the OSM data is now taken directly from OSM .osm.pbf files, from Geofabrik Download Server: http://download.geofabrik.de/index.html
- new categories od POI are added: motorways (highways & trunks), fuel stations, fire stations, helipads and some other (prisons -beware!).
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 (PB), 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).
We would like to make it clear - with this solution:
- you can not turn PB ON/OFF in-flight - only before MSFS start up,
- PB text size and so on are “hardcoded” - these are static not dynamic objects,
- scenery POIs are as they are - it is not possible to turn on some types of PB and some not. Please consider this BEFORE clicking stars on-site :)
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).
3 months ago
rogerabram
Thanks.
2 years ago
69Yanks
FYI - we invite you to our Discord server to ask questions, make suggestions and so on here 😊
https://discord.gg/QSS6zNpZGZ
3 years ago
RipPipPip
I have been patiently waiting for this area ever since I saw your first POI additions. I felt I would not be a good judge regarding your additions until you posted something close to home. Well I know this area like that back of my hand, so give me a few flights to test it out. From everything I hear about your other projects, I am expecting to be amazed! Thanks for all the time you have put in and shared with us!
3 years ago
Thank you! Than I wait for rating 😎
3 years ago
RipPipPip
C0SM0S
Thanks. Just what I requested recently.
3 years ago
Fly On! :D
3 years ago
RipPipPip
gryper