POI Billboards of Japan
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 Japan with 226264 POI points (mostly rivers though)
broken down to region - going from NE to SW (all included):
- 1HOK 14187 POI points
- 2TOH 28478 POI points
- 3KAN 26907 POI points
- 4CHU 45815 POI points
- 5KAN 35797 POI points
- 6CHU 27168 POI points
- 7SHI 15942 POI points
- 8KYU 31970 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).
FYI - we invite you to our Discord server to ask questions, make suggestions and so on here 😊
https://discord.gg/QSS6zNpZGZ
3 years ago
RipPipPip
Excuse me, install step is just drop the 3dsp-scenery-poiosmtofs-jp-1hok into community folder? or click-in 3dsp-scenery-poiosmtofs-jp-1hok folder, then copy scenery folder into community folder? I am confused by install guide
3 years ago
Nope, copy all the 3dsp-... scenery and NOT anything from inside. Just refer to how other sceneries folder structure look like.
3 years ago
RipPipPip
s0970188549
It is not by any chance possible to include a toggle hotkey, to turn the POIs on and off. But a really great feature, nice work. Kind Regards, JayDee
3 years ago
Sorry no such Magical Mystery Key exists, if I am well informed. It is stated clearly in README in newest releases (from Finland on).
3 years ago
RipPipPip
JayDee
Thanks for this addition!
3 years ago
THartmann9374
This Add-on too big. Even choose one area may cause your sim freeze when start up.
3 years ago
Have you read "HOW TO"? Sim does not "freeze" technically, it just tries to index all the files. Turn on just ONE part and it should start in about 10 minutes (average config).
3 years ago
RipPipPip
mickey9801