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Creating a simple lake

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culpeper

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I'm having trouble. Whenever I try to create a lake a get a body of water that extends forever.

Anyway, I want to add Lea Lake of Bottomless State Park to FSX

33.318622 -104.330221

I draw the polygon on Google Earth. In FSX KML I open it up and tag it Hydro_Polygons_Generic_Lake_Perennial. I also set the elevation in FSX KML to 1054 meters. I get a lake that starts at this location and continues to widen across the global to west. Doesn't make any sense but than I again I don't know what I'm doing. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
Doesn't sound as though your polygon closes onto it's self? Plus GE and the KML appears to have changed since the time FSX KML was written?

You might attach the KML file to a post so someone can look at it.
 
Any polygon should have an ending vertice (point) that is at the same location as the starting vertice. While GE may show it as circular (for example), in FSX it's open sided. Go back to GE and edit or redraw making sure that your last click is at the same point as the first click. Or you can manually edit the KML to accomplish the same thing.
 
culpeper said:
Ah, that feels better....:)

The first longitude vertice was zero for starts! Thanks you all.
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A known problem if you are using the latest Google Earth to create or edit your KML files for FSX KML. Simply delete the first vertice (0 latitude OR longitude) as well as the last vertice (both zero lat/long) and your polygon will be correctly shaped.

If the "shape" tab of your polygon entry shows something like a line or a very narrow triangle projecting to infinity then your polygon is suffering from the new bug introduced by Google Earth's new KML storage format.
 
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