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[[File:LOWI with OSM buildings.jpg|thumb|LOWI with OSM buildings]]
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Take openstreetmap floorplans, create 3d buildings ready for use in FlightGear.
This Python script takes OpenStreetPap floorplans and creates 3d buildings ready for use in FlightGear.


Development [https://gitorious.org/fg-radi/osm2city repository] on gitorous.
The development [https://gitorious.org/fg-radi/osm2city repository] is hosted on gitorious.
Forum thread [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22809 osm2city.py development]
Forum thread [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22809 osm2city.py development]
Written in python 2.7, developed on Linux. It should also run on Mac OSX. Windows users, see [[Osm2city.py#Install_on_Windows|below.]]
Written in Python 2.7, developed on GNU/Linux. It should also run on Mac OSX. Windows users, see [[Osm2city.py#Install_on_Windows|below.]]


It's at a rather early stage of development. There's no GUI, everything is controlled by an input file. But it produces realistic city layouts (after all, it uses realistic data). The whole process -- from scratch to flying in FG -- for a city the size of LOWI takes perhaps 30 min, including maybe a total of 15 min manual work.
It's at a rather early stage of development. There's no GUI, everything is controlled by an input file. But it produces realistic city layouts (after all, it uses realistic data). The whole process -- from scratch to flying in FG -- for a city the size of LOWI takes perhaps 30 min, including maybe a total of 15 min manual work.
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