Custom Spain and Portugal scenery

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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.


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 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 [1],
  • Road and rail information from OpenStreetMap [2].
  • All airports have been compiled using v850 of apt.dat
  • New airports are modeled, and many existing airports and airfields have been improved.

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

Distribution

The scenery files has been divided in 10+1 zones for an efficient management of the data and updates.

Zones of the scenery

San Sebastian Bay (ICAO: LESO) Costa Daurada (ICAO: LERS)
Bay of La Concha (Airport: LESO) Costa Daurada (Airport: LERS)

This work is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license [3].


Improved and new airports

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.

In addition, many airports have been improved and a others are completely new, including their buildings, runways, taxiways and navaids. 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.

IBE01

  • Barcelona - LEBL: complete reconstruction the airport by ELS [4]. Tower by Codolar, Terminal 2 by NiTuS, Terminal 1 by ludomo [5]. The updated navaids for runways 07L and 02 need manual installation. See [6].
  • Reus - LERS: additional taxiways, all buildings modeled, area of the flight club included, notification points for VFR flights modeled. [7] Historic hangar for general aviation: --lat=41.144055 --lon=1.147302 --heading=70
  • Lleida Alguaire - LEDA: new airport. Runway, taxiways, platform and buildings [8]. Platform: --lat=41.7290031 --lon=0.5407769 --heading=220
  • La Cerdanya - LECN: buildings by ludomo
  • Igualada - LEIG: generic buildings
  • Avinyonet - LE01: complete reconstruction of the airfield and new models for all buildings [9]. Platform: --lat=41.3681 --lon=1.7675 --heading=180
  • Lleida Alfés - LEAT: complete reconstruction of the airfield [10] Platform: --lat=41.54945190 --lon=0.65171187 --heading=150
  • Huesca Benabarre - LENA: new small airfield. Runway, taxiways, platform and buildings. Platform: --lat=42.02227 --lon=0.47853

IBE02

  • Menorca - LEMH: buildings by Codolar [11]
  • Ibiza - LEIB: buildings by Lukas [12]:

IBE03

  • Castellón Costa Azahar - LECS: new airport. Runway, taxiways, platform and buildings [13] Platform: --lat=40.205735486 --lon=0.064476113 --heading=0
  • Valencia - LEVC: buildings by Codolar

IBE04

  • Madrid Torrejon - LETO: complete reconstruction of the airport [14]

IBE05

  • Bilbao - LEBB: buildings by Antonio Rodriguez/blcyus [15]
  • Huesca Pirineos - LEHC: main buildings including the terminal and its area. By ludomo. Platform: --lat=42.02653 --lon=-0.32852 --heading=125

IBE08

  • Granada - LEGR: buildings by Codolar

GC

  • Tenerife - GCXO: buildings by Lukas
  • La Palma - GCLA: buildings by Lukas