POI Billboards of United Kingdom - England plus Isles
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 United Kingdom - England plus Isles with 120624 POI points
broken down to region (all included):
England-North (GB-ENG-NO) 32995 POI points
England-East-Central (GB-ENG-EACE) 40490 POI points
England-South (GB-ENG-SO) 38027 POI points
England-London (Greater) (GB-ENG-LO) 7730 POI points
England-Isles (GB-ENG-Isles) (Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey) 1382 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
Hi, not sure if its my 7zip but when I try to open the zip all cores go to 100% and it never opens. I have used 7zip for years and never had this issue. Any ideas?
3 years ago
Ups I do not think I can help you with this: PBofUK England+ have 95 downloads already so looks like everything works on server side.
Maybe:
3 years ago
RipPipPip
Diddy64