Scenery Development Resources

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This is meant to become a list of resources related to developing scenery for FlightGear, you can help improve and maintain this page by adding and updating contents.

Textures

• Image After - Tons of textures we may use for our GPL work. See here for more details.
• BurningWell - Public domain textures.
• OpenGameArt - Collection of images which has different licenses that is specified per image. Pay attention!

Tools

• Quantum GIS
• GRASS GIS Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
• GDAL/OGR Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

Shapefiles

http://www.diva-gis.org/gData http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shapefiles http://download.geofabrik.de/ http://www.mapcruzin.com/free-world-country-arcgis-maps-shapefiles.htm

FlightGear Landcover Database Mapserver

• Mapserver Home (dead link)
• Download Shapefiles (dead link)

Other GIS Data links

(Please note that "free" data does not mean GNU/GPL. If you want to release your scenery under GPL/GNU you have to verify the licences.)

• FreeGIS.org/FossGIS E.V.
• PPgis.net Public Participation GIS
• Public Geospatial Data Project
• http://www.mapcruzin.com/download_mapcruz.htm