POI Billboards of Iceland
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 Iceland with 7877 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 using scenery drawback could be extended MSFS loading time, so to minimize the time try the usual ways:
turn OFF Windows File Indexing feature on the disk,
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 :)
=> minimize scenery size on a disk:
turn ON Windows File Compression feature on the disk; it should have advantage to give you 40% disk space gain and processing overhead should not be high on the other side.
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 for this !
3 years ago
You welcome ;-)
PS. Latest releases (Finland, France+) contain even more POI types...
3 years ago
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dulysjean
Thanks, I always want to check out Iceland.
3 years ago
Don't forget about Svalbard ;-)
3 years ago
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THartmann9374
There was an update today for the ORBX Iceland mesh and now your addon is working fine. There was clearly a conflict with the ORBX product. Many thanks.
3 years ago
;-) I do not think that POI Billboards conflict with anything but OK, I am glad as well!
3 years ago
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Mossie14
Works fine for me, and with other mods: overhaul iceland, orbx mesh and my mods 😊 I will use it to prepare my road trip in Iceland 😊 Thanks !
3 years ago
I am glad to hear a positive comment ;-)
3 years ago
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flying_coyotus
I only need to disable this addon and all is fine. As soon as I enable then another CTD.
3 years ago
Hm. 4500 downloads of this series up to now and you are THE FIRST CTD'er. BTW1: MSFS is resource hungry; maybe now you are on the edge of a knife. BTW2: The package was successfully compiled using LICENSED MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR SDK, so no, no.
3 years ago
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Mossie14
Causes CTD when msfs loading. Removing via Addon Linker and all is fine. Potentially very good!
3 years ago
Disable all OTHER addons and check again, please ;-)
Do this BEFORE charging "POOR" that "poor" scenery ;-)
3 years ago
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Mossie14