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CGL aerial images do not display correctly

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Please refer to my own reply to this question below. Or maybe I should start a new thread?


I have followed instructions for creating aerial imagery using Ortho4XP, QGIS and Tile2Bing and created quite a few png files for the aerialimages folder in package sources then used Devmode to successfully build a package (no inspector errors) which I copied to the community folder.

When I view the area in MSFS I see 'patches' of white which didn't exist before but that's all. There should be a lot more 'scenery'.

Any ideas what could be the problem? Or is aerial imagery problematic.

Here are the before aerial imagery image and after aerial imagery image (where I have set red arrows pointing to the white areas mentioned above and also circled the area which should have new aerial imagery - see a sample aerial imagery png at bottom)
victoria_with_no_aeria_small.jpg


victoria_with_new_aerial_nbg_small.jpg


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I do not 'sit on my hands' waiting for replies so did some experimenting.

It seems that I don't need to create (CGL) aerial imagery as the area I was trying to 'cover' (earthworks during re-aligning the approach roads to the new bridge) displays correctly when photogrammetry is OFF.

However I thought that the affects of photogrammetry could be 'removed' by adding a polygon with EXCLUDE TIN selected. I have read that this is basically for BUILDINGS (and earthworks is hardly a building) but I tried all other 'exclude' settings for the polygon which does not fix the 'earthworks'.

Is there a way to exclude these 'earthworks', with photogrammetry on, other than with aerial imagery?

Here is the same area with photogrammetry OFF - note the earthworks (see in image above) has gone and the correct roads exist (apart from a 'rogue' area of white)

victoria_no_photogrammetry.jpg
 
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