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FSXA Google map to S-builderX

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Hi,
I'm sorry if this has been posted. May be I used wrong Key word and I could not find the answer.
Can we import the lines of roads and rivers to S-builder?
If that is possible, it would be easy to modify terrain without drawing lines by hand.
Regards,
 
Hello:

AFAIK, we can "Append" ESRI Shape *.SHP files to SBuilderX and assign various attributes to the points, poly-lines and/or polygons once they are "imported".

Also, with Google Maps and Google Earth I don't think we would have access to, nor the right to use their vector data.


BTW: Google Earth free edition does allow manual tracing of the maps and/or aerial imagery as points, poly-lines, and/or polygons which can be saved as a KML, then converted from KML to 'basic type' Golden Surfer Blanking *.BLN files ...which can be "Apended" to SBuilderX < thanks, Rhumbaflappy ! :D >.

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310230&highlight=KML2BLN



So, to avoid manual tracing, one instead could try "Appending" smaller data sets extracted from the rather large Open Street Map (aka "OSM") *.SHP file sets which are often discussed in the Autogen Forum here at FS Developer.

Those data sets can be downloaded free, and their use for projects in FS is not restricted, AFAIK.

http://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html


CAVEAT: One would need to reduce the size of the *.SHP file data from the larger packages into smaller sets via a GIS application for subsequent use in SBuilderX, given its notorious memory limitations.

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=386845&highlight=geofabrik


Hope this helps ! :)

GaryGB
 
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