FSXA Airport geographical info (State/Province and City)

[Kumara]

Hi Guys,
I'm posting here at the ADE forum since I did notice there is a field in the Airport Properties that let you change these data for any airport compiled using it: actually it was by accident as I edited a wrong altitude of a stock airport, and that field came out as a new Province in FSX.
Now I would really like to detail more Countries with their proper regions, but I cannot figure out where should I look into; hopefully I won't have to edit each and every airport in FSX just to change that detail! In my installation I only have listed the US States and no other State/Province for any other Country.
TIA
Cheers

 

[rfields]

Yes, you have to edit every single airport in the country if you want to add the states/ provinces.

Brazil may take you several months, and you will spend a lot of time locating individual airports on maps.

By default you should have the United States, Australia and Canada divided into state/province sub-catagories.

The ability to customize the fields has advantages. I have many waypoint files used in MAIW flight plans. I set the country as zz_MAIW_Waypoints, the state/province as the nation the waypoint is located in or near, the city and airport name as in the original.

That way I have those dozens of airport, but they do not clutter up my regular nation airport lists, and they are immediately identifiable when I mouse over them with Plan G.

 

[BASys]

Hi Folks

Kumara -
Can maybe save you some searching.

I'd already collated state/province/region/whatever data
whilst creating the FSX - Rewards - Visit Series - Countries packages.

For each of those countries marked in green on the coverage map below
I can supply you with a complete list of FSX default airport ICAOs by state.

Click thumbnail for a larger version, (opens in a new tab/window).

Let me know which country you'd like to start with.

HTH
ATB
Paul

 

[Kumara]

Hello BaSys,
actually I have started this thread because of your great Rewards! I've become addicted and obsessed collecting all the flags around the world!
As rfields knows already as we were discussing an elevation problem for Vadodara (Gujarat) airport in another thread, lately I'm making a tour of the whole India collecting all the States' emblems, but there is one odd thing about Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh: I made a flight plan to every airport in FS flight planner so to be able to check and practice a touch and go on each runaway; one thing I noticed there are a few small strips that I failed to notice in the flight planner (are they there at all???) but that I was able to visit using the aircraft map or the gps (VE62 and VE60).
This is confusing since I'm almost sure I did land on every available runaway in those two Indian states, but got no reward 'till now: I have a list I compiled from the flight planner with all the ICAO for India, and I'm about 3/4 of it, so in the end when I check marked all the list I would thoroughly see if I missed some landings there.
It would be quite helpful to have a fully categorized and complete list for all the runaways present in each Country/State/Province, and since it seems that editing all of them singly to have them organized in the Flight Planner is out of the question, at least to get a plain full list would be very handy!
BaSys, thanks for your addon: is there any chance to get a text list from you?

 

[BASys]

Hi Folks

Kumara -

actually I have started this thread because of your great Rewards!
I've become addicted and obsessed collecting all the flags around the world!

Wow, I'm gobsmacked.
Great to hear they're being used.

I'm making a tour of the whole India collecting all the States' emblems,
but there is one odd thing about Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh:

I made a flight plan to every airport in FS flight planner
so to be able to check and practice a touch and go on each runaway;

one thing I noticed
there are a few small strips
that I failed to notice in the flight planner (are they there at all???)
but that I was able to visit using the aircraft map or the gps (VE62 and VE60).

This is confusing
since I'm almost sure I did land on every available runaway in those two Indian states,
but got no reward 'till now:

Yes they're all displayed in FSX's builtin Map/Flightplanner.
However the Map is not sufficiently detailed for discerning country's internal political boundaries.

Instead try using Tim Arnot's excellent Plan-G.

I wish Plan-G had existed
when I'd originally collated the data
to create the Visit-Series packages.
Would have saved me a lot of time and hard research.



re:VE62 and VE60
I think you've gotten lost.

# VE60 – Kalaikunda Air Force Base – Kalaikunda - West Bengal
# VE62 – Charbatia Air Force Base – Cuttack - Orrisa

are > 250 miles east of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh respectively,
with buffer states of in Bihar and Chhattisgarh in-between.

Please see - Wikipedia - States and territories of India

I have a list I compiled from the flight planner with all the ICAO for India,
and I'm about 3/4 of it,
so in the end when I check marked all the list
I would thoroughly see if I missed some landings there.

Recommend checking which airports you've successfully landed at
using Jean-Christophe Arnulfo's excellent - FSX Logbook Viewer (fsxlogbook 1.00D)
Download from AVSIM - http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fsxutil&DLID=119627

It would be quite helpful to have a fully categorized and complete list
for all the runaways present in each Country/State/Province,
and since it seems that editing all of them singly
to have them organized in the Flight Planner is out of the question,
at least to get a plain full list would be very handy!

BaSys, thanks for your addon:
is there any chance to get a text list from you?

I currently don't have access to the PC containing my source files.

Meantime I've extracted the data from the India reward file
into a listing of airports required for each state/territory reward.

The RWD file itself only contains the ICAO id, (no data for name/city/state/etc.).

Please find text file attached below.



HTH
ATB
Paul

 

[Kumara]

Thanks a lot!

Hello Paul,
your list would be most helpful! At the moment I still have to fly the Kashmir and all the North East States (south of Arunachal Pradesh); I've already collected all the flags from South and West states as well as Eastern ones but I still miss some strips in Uttar and Madhya Pradesh but still have to figure out where these are since I already landed in most of them.
I know the two VE62 and VE60 were in the East: as I wrote I found them by chance while flying following my plan, and possibly you're right I should have missed them in the default (clumsy) flight planner. Anyhow surely I get lost using that flight planner and will check out Plan-G that looks most promising! Thanks again!
I already use the FSX Logbook Viewer to keep track of my progress: I don't want to look like the one who got an helping hand and wants the whole arm, but if you have a whole text list for all the airport in FSX and make it available, that would be Super!
I really appreciate this Reward routine in FSX: besides your excellent addon I've also installed another one of a series of postcard from the USA (sorry, at the moment I cannot recall the author) you get landing at some specific places; besides the flags I enjoy to find I landed nearby some historical or significant place and usually this is kind of memento of a particular flight I made there. I wish I have a postcard for the many beautiful places I visited on this planet (both real and virtual). In fact I'd like to collaborate to a project like yours: i.e. India has some astonishing landscapes and ancient places that are so poorly depicted in FS that at least to get a postcard would be consolatory and fun, besides being educational! This can be said for many places and Countries as well.
S!

 

[BASys]

Hi Kumara

Responding to your PM & various questions -



Reward Imagery -
Size/format of reward imagery is specified in the SDK.



Visit-Series - Explanation -
I had initially intended utilising country maps,
with internal boundaries for the various states/provinces/etc. rewards imagery.

At that time,
most wikipedia country's articles -
- Did not have suitable internal political boundary maps.
- Did have political subdivision flags.

So in most early versions,
I'd used those subdivision flags.

When viewing your pilot records
if you've done a little travelling,
they do look extremely pretty.

However,
those flags themselves
have no obvious geolocal relationship whatsoever,
therefore minimal educational/contextual benefit.



As time progressed,
wikipedia's granularity has improved
and many more minor country's
accurate internal political boundary maps
have been published.



Preferably for future rewards,
I'll use those maps only.



Though,
it would be much nicer
to be able to overlay
the political subdivision flag
onto freespace of the internal political boundary map.

Sufficiently hires source files would be required.



Reward Creation -
The key blocking aspect was
correlating ICAOs against political boundaries,
not the generation of the reward images.



Reward - Capitals -
You were looking for CAPITAL related data -
Wherever I'd implemented these
I've already supplied listings in the various REWARD_CONTENTS.txt files
Rewards\Visit_Series\Visit_Series_Countries_COUNTRYNAME_DEFAULT_BASIC_REWARD_CONTENTS.txt



As per my previous post,
I currently don't have access to the PC containing my source files.

I had rewards in progress for every country, worldwide,
with most state/regions allocated,
and many reward images prepared,
all ready for compilation/distribution.

Further Visit-Series development
will recommence on my reacquiring access to those source files.



I can currently only supply
decompiled versions of my previously released files.



Please find an Italy related rewards listing attached.



HTH
ATB
Paul