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Custom scenery for the Iberian Peninsula is available. This area includes the continental territories of Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar. The project uses the data from CORINE database for the land classes, OpenStreetMap for the landmass and roads and the enhanced altitudes by Jonathan de Ferranti.
The Spanish community of FlightGear started in 2012 a project to enhance the scenario of the Iberian Peninsula. This included an enhacement of the terrain, that was still low detail at the moment the project started, new layouts for many airports and hundred of objects spread on all the geography.
 
Warning! '''This scenery only works correctly in FlightGear 2.11 and up'''. It is extremely unstable in FlightGear 2.10 and older versions!
 
== Improvements over the standard scenery ==
 
The following data sources have been used and processed to generate this scenery:
 
* landcover information from the CORINE program. See [[CORINE to materials mapping|here]] for the correspondence between CORINE and FG textures. Additional cities and details were manually added, specially in Catalonia.
* landmass and coastline updated according to OpenStreetMaps data,
* digital elevation data by Jonathan de Ferranti for Canary Islands, Gredos and Picos de Europa [http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html],
* Road and rail information from OpenStreetMap [http://www.openstreetmap.org/].
* All airports have been compiled using v850 of apt.dat
* New airports are modeled, and many existing airports and airfields have been improved.
* Lots of buildings added, especially suitable for VFR flights: notification points, cities...


The creation of the scenery is still an on-going project. Additional information and temporary data files can be found at [http://flightgear.creatuforo.com/-temas30521.html?sid=976c97a07264ae7e75b15fbee03373a0#30521 Vive FG!]
The creation of the scenery is still an on-going project. Additional information and temporary data files can be found at [http://flightgear.creatuforo.com/-temas30521.html?sid=976c97a07264ae7e75b15fbee03373a0#30521 Vive FG!]


== Distribution ==
= Download and Installation =


The scenery files has been divided in 10+1 zones for an efficient management of the data and updates.
The "update package" can be found at: [https://mega.co.nz/#!1FgjlLhR!CnEoDTq_JWBrPa7RFk4AwERxxzI_yix4UKZNmyEIpIo|Improved Iberian Peninsula] This is an enhacement of the current scenery in [[TerraSync]], and must be used in addition to [[TerraSync]]. See the next section for the changes.


[[File:Zones of the Iberian scenary.png|512px|Zones of the scenery]]
Download the and uncompress the file in a local directory. For example, under Windows, ''My Documents\Games\IBE''. Then, add this directory to the first tab of the simulator launcher, section ''FG_SCENERY''. If you use a terrasync directory, move the terrasync directory to the last position on the list.


* IBE01 (Catalonia): https://mega.co.nz/#!BM4WUDiI!aff4k1CBBYUyzRfWFbe_mH6pwaQ4SmypSVNaOHosWYE (348.3 MB)
If you download the file after an update, first remove the existing directory and then install again.
* IBE02 (Balearic Islands): https://mega.co.nz/#!1BgyQKqI!eOvcFA_70bEERvXMMIFaxSojECIFVWqQPreXzRqa56g (43.3 MB)
* IBE03 (Valencia): https://mega.co.nz/#!cIBxhJiB!WzJs8GlxV_jXLKJacNtljmAoQK4mBSjP-SyYThwTRxU (197.9 MB)
* IBE04 (Madrid): https://mega.co.nz/#!1No23JBI!U8Id3lQ7xNAJ66CmR_-Gnj8seJBdEbE9CVq-qD4RRBY (110.4 MB)
* IBE05 (Basque Country, Aragon): https://mega.co.nz/#!9UAEVTJb!I7HTSlMJQBihjQzrnmy8ZmdgYId3yv3f-2zwv94ETDs (317.4 MB)
* IBE06 (Galiza): https://mega.co.nz/#!sBZBQBQb!PVnFU1P-eVPGfbqGL3tqSSz5nPojNpBjxaGc2CMG70g (303.9 MB)
* IBE07 (Coast of Portugal): https://mega.co.nz/#!hFQgRAYb!WbJs4Q4gItiuIXTFYNJkpUGthpcd9Bbsxe0fcDU0NW8 (157.0 MB)
* IBE08 (East Andalusia): https://mega.co.nz/#!YNA1gLyY!A0edtQC-ryogA8iLvWcyrBAyZVx5r5jWduQccY8WmjE (265.2 MB)
* IBE09 (West Andalusia, South of Portugal): https://mega.co.nz/#!YcBU1IpR!ayFgMRQ2OAv-T_IQBlulJyjCPDFCkWWB-hKZ10EVmHM (167.5 MB)
* IBE10 (East Portugal, Leon): https://mega.co.nz/#!JQggGY7D!I0gi5UeSPverIYVO2siGRCRWDR0taAJP7ntlWYMApgo (321.3 MB)
* Extra zone: GC: (Canary islands): https://mega.co.nz/#!AQBnRDza!foAgxzkjzJ90s1vO50Juv0zXR-YCpATiN5gpk-VyW9c (70.4 MB)


These files are intended to be stable, and regular updates will be published in https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13130748/IBE-Update.zip This file includes updates for all zones.
= Improvements over the standard scenery =


{|
The goals of the Iberian scenery were:
| [[File:San Sebastian.png|x250px|San Sebastian Bay (ICAO: LESO)]]
| [[File:Camp de Tarragona.png|x250px|Costa Daurada (ICAO: LERS)]]
|-
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebasti%C3%A1n Bay of La Concha] (Airport: LESO)
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Daurada Costa Daurada] (Airport: LERS)
|}


This work is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/], and under the terms of the GPL License. Use the more suitable license for your needs.
* Terrain compiled using the last data available from OpenStreetMap and CORINE. This terrain is no longer necessary from the introduction of the scenery 2.0 in [[TerraSync]].
* Improvements on the layouts of many airports (LEBL, LEMG...), including many new airports (LESL, LECI...)
* Models of lots of buildings, including main airports and some cities: Madrid, Barcelona and many more.
* Parking points for many the airports. Currently, about 80% of the airports have parking points.
* Scenery especially suitable for VFR flights: notification points, cities...


== Installation ==
Currently, the terrain files are no longer necessary but many improvements are not yet in [[TerraSync]]: airports that depend heavily on the elevation (for example, LEPO), or airports not yet sent to the X-Plane community (for example, LEMG or LEST), as well as hundred of buildings everywhere we are still uploading to [[TerraSync]] and even some non-free buildings.


Download the area you are interested in (or all of them!) and uncompress the file in a local directory. The best option is using a separate directory for each area. For example, under Windows, ''My Documents\Games\IBE01'', ''My Documents\Games\IBE02''..., under Linux ''$HOME/Documents/IBE/IBE01'', ''$HOME/Documents/IBE/IBE02''... and so on. Then, add these directories to the first tab of the simulator launcher, section ''FG_SCENERY''. If you use a terrasync directory, move the terrasync directory to the last position on the list.
This work is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/], and under the terms of the GPL License. Use the license more suitable for your needs.
 
If you download the updates, install them in the same directory than the zones, overwriting any existing file.
 
[[File:Scenery ibe configuration.png|thumb|Recommended configuration of this scenery]]


== Improved and new airports ==
== Improved and new airports ==


Dozens of airports have been modeled using specific buildings. This includes large international airports, such as Madrid (LEMD) and Barcelona (LEBL), medium-size regional airports such as Reus (LERS) or Cordoba (LEBA), small airfields for general aviation such as San Luis (LESL) or Cerdanya (LECD) and tiny airfields for ultralight aircrafts, such as Alfés (LEAT)
As a result of the project, dozens of airports have been modeled. This includes large international airports, such as Madrid (LEMD) and Barcelona (LEBL), medium-size regional airports such as Reus (LERS) or Cordoba (LEBA), small airfields for general aviation such as San Luis (LESL) or Cerdanya (LECD) and tiny airfields for ultralight aircrafts, such as Alfés (LEAT)


All airports haven been compiled using v850 of the database. This means that the taxiways of most airports are hugely improved over the current scenery available from terrasync, which uses v810 of the airport data. Unfortunately, FlightGear still uses v810 to calculate positions and navaids, and hence some of the airports will be apparently displaced up to a hundred meters. We are still doing our best to fix this, but aircrafts and buildings may still appear in wrong positions after selecting some small airports.
The map [https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200770868570711495874.0004dc0d380de0bb19925&msa=0] shows the airports developed in the project. All these airports include custom buildings, some of them have enhanced runways and a few are completely new. The improved layout for most of these airports are already included in [[TerraSync]], and we are still uploading the remaining airports and their buildings.
 
The map [https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200770868570711495874.0004dc0d380de0bb19925&msa=0] shows the improved airports in the scenery. All these airports include custom buildings, some of them have enhanced runways and a few are completely new. The airports that are not in this map but are included in v850 of apt.dat are also compiled, but they do not include buildings. Most of the new buildings are not yet uploaded to terrasync since it still uses the old positions and elevations from v810. Some of the new starting positions are already included in the scenery files.


Color code [https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200770868570711495874.0004dc0d380de0bb19925&msa=0 of the airport map]
Color code [https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200770868570711495874.0004dc0d380de0bb19925&msa=0 of the airport map]
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* Yellow: heliports.
* Yellow: heliports.
* Question mark: we are working on them.
* Question mark: we are working on them.
= Pre 2.0 scenery =
Prior to the release of the 2.0 scenery in [[TerraSync]], we maintained a custom scenery for the continental territories of Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar. The project used the data from CORINE database for the land classes, OpenStreetMap for the landmass and roads and the enhanced altitudes by Jonathan de Ferranti. The scenery files divided the Iberian Peninsula in 10+1 zones for an efficient management of the data and updates.
[[File:Zones of the Iberian scenary.png|512px|Zones of the scenery]]
These files are no longer available, since the current scenario in [[TerraSync]] provides a level of detail similar to these old files.


[[Category:Scenery]]
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Revision as of 16:55, 9 December 2013

The Spanish community of FlightGear started in 2012 a project to enhance the scenario of the Iberian Peninsula. This included an enhacement of the terrain, that was still low detail at the moment the project started, new layouts for many airports and hundred of objects spread on all the geography.

The creation of the scenery is still an on-going project. Additional information and temporary data files can be found at Vive FG!

Download and Installation

The "update package" can be found at: Iberian Peninsula This is an enhacement of the current scenery in TerraSync, and must be used in addition to TerraSync. See the next section for the changes.

Download the and uncompress the file in a local directory. For example, under Windows, My Documents\Games\IBE. Then, add this directory to the first tab of the simulator launcher, section FG_SCENERY. If you use a terrasync directory, move the terrasync directory to the last position on the list.

If you download the file after an update, first remove the existing directory and then install again.

Improvements over the standard scenery

The goals of the Iberian scenery were:

  • Terrain compiled using the last data available from OpenStreetMap and CORINE. This terrain is no longer necessary from the introduction of the scenery 2.0 in TerraSync.
  • Improvements on the layouts of many airports (LEBL, LEMG...), including many new airports (LESL, LECI...)
  • Models of lots of buildings, including main airports and some cities: Madrid, Barcelona and many more.
  • Parking points for many the airports. Currently, about 80% of the airports have parking points.
  • Scenery especially suitable for VFR flights: notification points, cities...

Currently, the terrain files are no longer necessary but many improvements are not yet in TerraSync: airports that depend heavily on the elevation (for example, LEPO), or airports not yet sent to the X-Plane community (for example, LEMG or LEST), as well as hundred of buildings everywhere we are still uploading to TerraSync and even some non-free buildings.

This work is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license [1], and under the terms of the GPL License. Use the license more suitable for your needs.

Improved and new airports

As a result of the project, dozens of airports have been modeled. This includes large international airports, such as Madrid (LEMD) and Barcelona (LEBL), medium-size regional airports such as Reus (LERS) or Cordoba (LEBA), small airfields for general aviation such as San Luis (LESL) or Cerdanya (LECD) and tiny airfields for ultralight aircrafts, such as Alfés (LEAT)

The map [2] shows the airports developed in the project. All these airports include custom buildings, some of them have enhanced runways and a few are completely new. The improved layout for most of these airports are already included in TerraSync, and we are still uploading the remaining airports and their buildings.

Color code of the airport map

  • Blue: international and regional airports, usually controlled. Only airliners and general aviation. No ultralights allowed.
  • Red: airfields suitable for general aviation, runway longer than 800m, usually uncontrolled and paved surface. There may be ultralights, gliders and parachutes in the area.
  • Green: small airfields for ultralights. Usually uncontrolled and dirty surfaces. Runway less than 800m.
  • Yellow: heliports.
  • Question mark: we are working on them.

Pre 2.0 scenery

Prior to the release of the 2.0 scenery in TerraSync, we maintained a custom scenery for the continental territories of Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar. The project used the data from CORINE database for the land classes, OpenStreetMap for the landmass and roads and the enhanced altitudes by Jonathan de Ferranti. The scenery files divided the Iberian Peninsula in 10+1 zones for an efficient management of the data and updates.

Zones of the scenery

These files are no longer available, since the current scenario in TerraSync provides a level of detail similar to these old files.

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