FS Scenery Map Project

A community driven project to map flight simulation scenery.
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Data
3. Roadmap
4. Contributing
5. License
6. Contact
7. Acknowledgments

About The Project

Welcome to the FS Scenery Map Project, an open source mapping project to track flight simulation scenery. Anyone is invited to contribute to this datasource, add-on developers/publishers included. As long as a contribution can be backed with a public announcement it will generally be accepted.

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Built With

• GeoJSON
• QGIS

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Data

A product supporting multiple simulators should have separate entries for each simulator.

airports.geojson

GeoJSON file containing 'airport scenery' products as Point geometry.
When adding new airports, use the coordinates from the OurAirports repository.

Properties

• Product title title
• Product status status - announced/released
• ICAO code icao
• Developer developer
• Publisher publisher
• Release date release - ISO 8601 datetime in UTC
• Last updated on update - ISO 8601 datetime in UTC
• Tested simulator version sim - example: xplane_11.53, prepar3d_5.3.17.28160, msfs_1.23.12.0
• Product link url
• Product description desc_txt - max 128 characters utf-8
• Tags tags - string containing comma separated list. example: 'GSX, freeware, SODE'

scenery.geojson

GeoJSON file containing 'region scenery' products covering a certain geographic area as Polygon geometry.

Properties

• Product title title
• Product status status - announced/released
• Developer developer
• Publisher publisher
• Release date release - ISO 8601 datetime in UTC
• Last updated on update - ISO 8601 datetime in UTC
• Tested simulator version sim - example: xplane_11.53, prepar3d_5.3.17.28160, msfs_1.23.12.0
• Product link url
• Product description desc_txt - max 128 characters utf-8
• Tags tags - string containing comma separated list

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Roadmap

• Start the project
  • Git repo
  • License
  • Readme
• Define data structure
• Start dataset
  • Open up to community contributors

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

The easiest way to edit this data and contribute is using QGIS, an open source GIS toolkit. Make sure to only push valid GeoJSON.

1. Fork the project
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Open the relevant file in QGIS
4. Make your changes
5. Validate your changes
6. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
7. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
8. Open a pull request

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License

Distributed under the GPL-3.0 License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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Contact

NelisV

Project link: https://github.com/NelisV/fs-scenery-map-project

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Acknowledgments

• OurAirports

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