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Wish list

Would be nice if the KML tag tab would also have some sort of preview of the class. For example if it is a conifer forest, or a dry tropical forest. Otherwise you just have to tag it, compile, install, run the awefully slow FSX, slew there and oh my God! that is not how I want it to look! :)

Also an FSUIPC connection to the simulator to grab the coords of the plane (Slew), or to "fly to" and things like that given the amount of interaction one needs to test a scenery.

Other than that I am very happy with this tool, one of the best out there.
 
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meshman said:
I'm trying to use FSX KML to work with airports. It's working, but it's a tedious, time consuming task. I take the KML and grab the coordinates, switch their reading because Lon comes before Lat, cut and paste into an XML template I have setup to create an Apron and then copy that over into FSXPlanner XML to compile. Cut and paste, cut and paste... a few thousand times!
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There's much faster ways to do it. I did all the aprons and taxiways in my current project by drawing them in GE, then opening up the KML. I deleted everything except the coordinate list. After making sure each one was on its own line, I just replaced what I needed to. Like ,0 became "/> or ,-87 got replaced with " lon="-87 and so on. The only manual copying and pasting I needed to do was to move everything into the XML itself. Manually I did also replace the things like the numbers for taxiway points. But really using the replace function is much much faster than copying and pasting code bits.
 
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