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FlightGear Object Placement Tool comparison

This table attempts to display support for individual steps in the process of updating the FG Scenery DB starting from OSM or some other compatible georeference.

While OSM --> Scenery is the optimum workflow, there are currently many intermediate steps.

Tool Geo reference Model selection Add Edit Delete DB Add DB Edit DB Delete Exports... Comment
UFO No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[1] No No STG or XML Lacks proper geo reference
Osm2city.py Yes[2] Partial[2] Yes[2] Yes[2] Yes[2] Yes[2] No No STG and AC Only fitting or custom made models can be used.
FG Object Placement Tool No[3] No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No STG Needs an STG-file as input.

Lacks proper method for geo reference

Fencemaker by Valeo No Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial No No AC A Blender + FG combo tool.

Need to use the UFO to complete final STG export

FlightGear Scenery Designer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
WorldEditor Yes No ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Scenery DB Yes Partial - - - Yes Partial[3] Partial[3] STG Fully integrated with TerraSync
  1. Via STG file upload to the FG Scenery Object DB
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Osm2city.py, batch conversion of OSM map elements to FG objects and meshes.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Manual copy/paste of lat/lon