This modification removes all of the watermasks from the "rivers" around Tucson, Arizona. I did not remove watermasks north of Marana on the Santa Cruz and did not mess with anything outside of the banks of the Rillito "River", Santa Cruz "River", Sabino Creek, and Pantano Wash.  This addon works with or without Photogrammetry.  I did not re-mask the small sectiions that have 6 foot wide trickles of water a few weeks a year. Mainly because the photogrammetry has a little water in Sabino Creek but with out photogrammetry it's totally dry.  I also got rid of that massive stream on Mt Lemmon that is barely visible when you stand across it let alone from an airplane. An added bonus is water is not covering the bridges crossing the "Rivers".

As a bonus, I turned Willcox Playa back into to a playa and not Lake Tahoe of southern AZ.   It's in a speperate folder so, you can chose to install it or not.  I decided not to remask the small amount of water due to the idea that the photo tiles could change but if someone really wants it I could do it in a seperate file so when the Bing photo tiles change you can just get rid of it.   

INSTALLATION: Unzip Train Tucson directly into the community folder or unzip in another location and place the Folder train-tucson-exclusions and/or train-willcox-playa directly into your community folder.

I plan on woking on the Teluride, CO area next.  Those canals and giant streams are an eyesore to me.  I'll probably also look into fixing some of the night lighting issues in Tucson Metro.

Tested with Bullfrogsim KTUS.

I am a person who flys around Tucson in a small plane frequently out of E95.

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Tucson, Arizona water removal.

Removes ALL of the giant rivers placed by Asobo around Tucson, AZ and gets rid of water mask over Willcox Playa. Works with or without Photogrammetry. very small file size. Easy install. Instantly improve the reality of flights around southern Arizona.

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