Custom France scenery

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Custom scenery is available for continental France, using a variety of free sources.

Flying over the Alps using the custom France scenery.

The first release of this custom scenery covering all of continental France is available from [1] (warning: 781 MB file).

This work is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license [2].

The following data sources have been used and processed to generate this scenery:

  • landcover information from the CORINE program (Source : European Union, SOeS, CORINE Land Cover, 2006 - [3]),
  • landmass updated according to CORINE data,
  • digital elevation data from Jonathan de Ferranti for the alpine area [4],
  • fitting of the elevation data with 20m accuracy ("terrafit.py -e 20"),
  • Road and rail information from OpenStreetMap [5].

Please see the forums [6] for feedback and information about work in progress.

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