POI Billboards of Austria
Now the VFR dream comes true!
Now it is possible to have a detailed information on the area seen 1000 feet below you, injected directly into the scenery!
This upload will add POIs as “POI Billboards” - MSFS static scenery objects, for a given country/area, brought to you by 3DSpotters Team.
Here is Austria with 51549 POI points (made on request :) )
broken down to region (all included):
AT-E 32300 POI points
AT-W 19249 POI points
Refer to the included maps.
You may turn ON/OFF each part independently.
Please also check our "POI Billboards of" series for other countries.
To install
Drop the scenery folder from ZIP to the Community folder or (preferably) use any of good MSFS Addon Linkers.
A Technology
POI Billboards, that you will download here, are based on a completely different mechanism than Microsoft/Asobo built-in POI’s. That way you will get thousands (and I mean thousands) of billboard signs scattered all over the country, based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) information, supplied by OSM contributors, with minimal to non-existent FPS hit. You can see a lot of information at once: cities, towns, villages, attractions, train stations, temples, lakes, rivers, island and so on (assuming you have good eyes and paused the simulator). POI Billboards were designed to provide this information to the simmer, while not obscuring the landscape too much and keeping FPS high (well, you will judge).
HOW-TO minimize MSFS loading times
The only possible drawback could be extended MSFS loading time, so to minimize the time try the usual ways:
turn off Windows File Indexing feature,
switch on only the scenery you will really fly VFR in a minute,
keep your sceneries on SSD disks, preferably on M.2 ones,
do the same with all other sceneries/aircrafts/liveries :)
Credits
Credits go to:
OpenStreetMap Authors & Contributors at: https://www.openstreetmap.org
Overpass-Turbo service at: https://overpass-turbo.eu/
WinHour, member of 3DSpotters team, for JAVA POIOSM2FS software tool at: https://github.com/Winhour/POIOSM2FS-Converter
For additional information please refer to docs/files saved on this (first) scenery main folder (when unzipped to Community or elsewhere).
Thanks! It makes complete to Switzerland and Germany too.
3 years ago
Thanks! :)
3 years ago
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THartmann9374
Anyway, any chances to get a german language version for this? Like translating the Object cathegory to german, "River" -> "Fluss", "Mountain"->"Berg"...
3 years ago
Nope :D
We are here to talk ENGLISH, as an international Way of Communication...,
but...there is also link to development page in the readme, so maybe you get a developer to make this specific version...
3 years ago
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Scooty
Are you really serious about the icon for churches?
I mean, are you really, really serious?
There are some country-sided corners around, where you might get into a hell of a trouble for such jokes...
3 years ago
I am rarely serious, btw. if you do think that it resembles mosque, then no no, this is one italian cathedral, sorry :D :D :D
3 years ago
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Scooty