Himalaya region has its own high resolution landclass data.

Many smaller and larger landclass data improvements.

(was in v2) Uses improved urban zoning (thanks to improved algorithms in the scenery generator).

Water features (lakes / rivers) in Canada are now sourced from original government data instead of OSM (because OSM had some quite big gaps).

(was in v2) It includes line rivers from OSM (not just polygons as before) tagged waterway=river which improves the landscape in most regions quite a bit.

water features (lakes, rivers, coastline) – many previously missing water features are now finally there.

It is based on fresh Openstreetmap (OSM) data from: approximately 10th of October 2014 / for Himalaya end of April 2015 / South America 25th of October 2015, which brings (compared to default Global Scenery) a lot of improvements in:.

The higher resolution mesh allows a much more detailed/exact representation of the underlying landclass data (because of the smaller triangles, which can follow landclass changes in the raw data more closely).

The higher resolution mesh allows for a much more detailed representation of the elevation profile of the landscape.

It is a much higher resolution base mesh (more, smaller triangles) compared to the default Global Scenery which ships with X-Plane 10 (one could say: approximately 3-4-times more dense).

(some improvements were mostly in v2 too, but some are new to v3) Detailed coverage map (NOT the download map – look further down the page!) General characteristics

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