Hawaiian Islands Custom Scenery

Hawaiian Islands Custom Scenery

Started in	2018-Feb
Description	Produce new scenery for each of the Hawaiian Islands
Contributor(s)	Scott Giese
Status	Active

Motivation

The Hawaiian Islands have long been one of the showcase scenery areas with FlightGear. Unfortunately, the artifacts that were utilized to generate this scenery has been lost. This project aims to reproduce new scenery design artifacts to allow this scenery to continue to evolve.

As we look forward to a potential World Scenery 3.0 project, I foresee the Hawaiian Islands being a sandbox area to try out new concepts.

Objective

Produce high quality scenery design artifacts. Each of the islands will be reproduced using the best known practices.

Metric Objectives:

• Base Mesh Node Quantity: 40,000 - 60,000 nodes
• Base Mesh Error Tolerance: 3 meters
• Shapefile Complexity: ~1,000,000 nodes or less
• Shapefile Tolerance: 12 meters
• Shapefile Minimum Area: 1500 square-meters

Background

Data Sources:

• Demographic Data: SRTMGL1.003
• Land Cover Data: NOAA C-CAP Land Usage
• River & Stream Data: OpenStreetMap
• Buildings, Roads, Bridges: osm2city based on OpenStreetMap
• Obstruction Data: FAA DOF

Status

Kaula - High-Quality mesh with scrub land class

Kaula: Done

• Shapefile: Done
• Generated: Done
• Obstacles: n/a
• osm2city: n/a
• Custom Scenery Release: https://sourceforge.net/p/xdraconian-fgscenery/code/ci/master/tree/HawaiianIslands/Kaula/
• TerraSync Release: Not done
• Version: 2019-02-23-01

Niihau - High-Quality mesh and multiple land classes

Niihau: Paused

• Shapefile: Done
• Generated: Done
• Obstacles: n/a
• osm2city: Not done
• Custom Scenery Release: https://sourceforge.net/p/xdraconian-fgscenery/code/ci/master/tree/HawaiianIslands/Niihau/
• TerraSync Release: Not done
• Version: 2019-02-23-01

Kauai - High-Quality mesh and multiple land classes

Kauai: Paused

• Shapefile: Done
• Generated: Ongoing
• Obstacles: Done
• osm2city: Not done
• Custom Scenery Release: https://sourceforge.net/p/xdraconian-fgscenery/code/ci/master/tree/HawaiianIslands/Kauai/
• TerraSync Release: Not done
• Version: 2019-02-24-01

Warning  [Kauai] Known Issue: Water at elevation zero, causing sink holes to appear within the terrain.

Oahu - High-Quality mesh and land classes

Oahu: Ongoing

• Shapefile: Ongoing
• Generated: Ongoing
• Obstacles: Done
• osm2city: Not done
• Custom Scenery Release: Not done
• TerraSync Release: Not done

Molokai: Not done

• Shapefile: Not done
• Generated: Not done
• Obstacles: Not done
• osm2city: Not done
• Custom Scenery Release: Not done
• TerraSync Release: Not done

Lanai: Not done

• Shapefile: Not done
• Generated: Not done
• Obstacles: Not done
• osm2city: Not done
• Custom Scenery Release: Not done
• TerraSync Release: Not done

Kahoolawe: Not done

• Shapefile: Not done
• Generated: Not done
• Obstacles: Not done
• osm2city: Not done
• Custom Scenery Release: Not done
• TerraSync Release: Not done

Maui: Not done

• Shapefile: Not done
• Generated: Not done
• Obstacles: Not done
• osm2city: Not done
• Custom Scenery Release: Not done
• TerraSync Release: Not done

Hawaii: Not done

• Shapefile: Not done
• Generated: Not done
• Obstacles: Not done
• osm2city: Not done
• Custom Scenery Release: Not done
• TerraSync Release: Not done