FS Earth Tiles

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FSEarthTiles is a flightsimulator tool I started to develop for me and you

inspired by the cool TileProxy project helping you to get
photo-textures as static addon scenery into the flightsimulator by accessing earth
services.

!! IMPORTANT !!

All earth services have copyright on their material! That means you may not
distribute sceneries you create that includes such material.
You are also not really allowed to download such material and store and use it
in FS or elswhere without the permission of the services.

Installation
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1. Create a folder "FSEarthTiles" for this application and unzip the package into
this folder.

2. Open the file FSEarthTiles.ini and complete the Service configurations! For
legal reason they are only preconfigurated. (*)
Read what is written at the beginning of that file. The internet is a very
helpfull source to figure out valid configurations.
So use it and do an active search. Do NOT post and asking me for a
configuration! And don't be lazzy asking others to do your work.
It is simple enough to figure out a valid configuration!

To compile a scenery for the Flight Simulator you need the scenery compilers of th
FS SDK's that eighter comes with the FS Deluxe
versions or you can download from the microsoft pages:

3. From the FSX terrain SDK (SP2) copy the resample.exe and place it into the
FSEarthTiles Folder and rename it to resampleFSXSP2.exe

4. From the FS2004 terrain SDK copy the resample.exe and place it into the
FSEarthTiles Folder and rename it to resampleFS2004.exe

5. From the FS2004 SDK copy the imagetool.exe and place it into the FSEarthTiles
Folder and rename it to imagetoolFS2004.exe

Start the Application

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- Simple double click on the FSEarthTiles.exe

Documentation
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- UserDocu.rtf
Development Links
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Up to Version 0.99 by HB-100:

-> http://www.fspassengers.com/forum/read.php?f=9&i=4634&t=4634 (note I am only a
guest in that forum!)

Release Version 1.0 by HB-100:

-> http://www.fspassengers.com/forum/read.php?f=9&i=6835&t=6835 (note I am only a
guest in that forum!)

Emergency info page:

-> http://rocksolid.hostfile.com/FSEarthTiles/Info.html (in case the FSpassengers
forum threads disappears)

FSEarthTiles Future
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I (HB-100) self will not continue the development of FS Earth Tiles.

I welcome if anyone want to pick it up and continue the development of FSET.
For this purpose I made the sources of v1.0 public and give everyone the right to
use them for your own projects
with no restrictions. Before you start a good idea is to check what projects
already exists.

Projects after Version 1.0 lead by other authors:

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project from fly-a-lot:

--> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fsearthtiles/ (note: project still not

confirmed to this date)

Read the UserDocu.rtf !

HB-100 July 2008