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TerraGIT 3.4 Worldwide Terrain Upgrade: Worldwide Release Announcement

A FGMEMBERS Project

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FGMEMBERS is pleased to announce the release of TerraGIT 3.4, its global scenery package for the Open Source Flight Simulator, FlightGear. The upgrade is a worldwide scenery repository generated in 10°x 10° tiles and managed by git.

TerraGIT 3.4 is a world terrain regeneration constructed using the next-generation terragear with custom adaptations. Three new features are integrated into this version:

* Elevation Errors Are Corrected

Elevation for airports was computed using ViewFinder Panorama SRTM-3. Improvements on the terragear tool-chain allowed us to correct and eliminate identified elevation errors across the globe. Numerous airports were then assessed and the previous inconsistencies were found to be resolved.

* New Airport Specifications Via the X-Plane Gateway Database

Over the past four years, there has been a dramatic increase of airports receiving layout improvements created by the dedicated aviation enthusiast's community (via the X-Plane gateway database). TerraGIT 3.4 ships with its own complete airport database upgrade, with all the new layout improvements for an enriched and enjoyable worldwide FlightGear experience.

* Highly Detailed Custom-Made Landclass Specifications

TerraGIT 3.4 contains a comprehensive list of custom landclass specifications derived from data made available from the OpenStreetMap (2020, OSM) project, the CORINE (2018, for Europe) project and the Natural Earth (for urban classes) project. A scenery enhancement is produced that enriches the visual experience in contrast to the default FlightGear terrasync scenery and previous terraGIT applications, which used a default "v0" landclass scenery platform. The result is a scenery rendering that generates the landscape panorama in exquisite detail.

We at FGMEMBERS are certain you will enjoy the new detail and quality of the scenery. Feel free to submit improvements for the terrain, as well as additional models by way of the git repositories, hosted at github.com.

Instructions on how to Obtain TerraGIT 3.4

Detailed instructions on how to obtain terraGIT are available in the README.md file in the terraGIT repository.

Note: Cloning a complete set of tiles for a global installation will take time, depending on the speed of your download line the speed at which your computer can write to the hard drive and space on your hard drive. A complete World installation requires around 320Gb.

I Already Have terraGIT. How do I Update It?

If you already have terraGIT, you can update it using git. However, since this new version is a complete reworking of the scenery content, there is a simpler and faster method: Wipe out your current version of terraGIT (or archive it if you have sufficient hard drive space) and create a fresh installation through cloning the submodules of the new terraGIT.
If you choose to update, use the following command-line set:

[In the terragit repository:]

   git pull
   git submodule sync
   git submodule update  --progress #This command-line set updates only the tiles you currently have installed. 
   #You may add more tiles any time or clone the remaining tiles for a full global installation.
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