Google Earth Decoder update
Description:
For those who create scenery addons based on MSFS Google Earth tiles, there is a fantastic tool called Google Earth Decoder Tool, created by Johanex111.
The problem here is that this tool has no Github repository, and is not maintained anymore by its author.
Google Earth tiles evolve, and it is now necessary to ensure that the data retrieved are the latest ones (even in some rare case, the latest data can remove some existing tiles).
When you use the Google Earth decoder tool, the tiles retrieved are not necessarily the last ones available on Google servers.
To fix it, i created a fork of the GoogleMapsTools.dll used by the Google Earth Decoder tool, that ensure you to retrieve the last version of the Google Earth tiles.
I used it, for instance, for my Antwerpen scenery, to retrieve the correct tiles for the center of the city (because the original Google Earth Decoder dll retrieved older tiles that did not contain photogrammetry data).
Installation:
Install Google Earth Decoder. Download the archive in the main file, then extract Common.dll and GoogleMapsTools.dll to the Google Earth Decoder folder (the folder containing Earth2MsfsWPF.exe). Make sure to backup first the oldest dll, in case the last version of the Google Earth data remove the tiles you want to download (it is a very rare case, but it is possible).
Credits:
Google Maps, hence all 3D credits for the 3d data goes to Google.
Google Earth Decoder tool (credits to /u/Jonahex111) https://www.reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/comments/j3faaj/google_earth_decoder_now_userfriendly/
budlab
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19 days ago
Regis1958
I don't have Google Earth Decoder and I can't find it on Flightsim.to.
Do you know where I can find this utility ?
Thanks
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19 days ago
Dante1984
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19 days ago
angelo1122
I tried Blender 3.5 with Lily 1.8.1 same thing, I tried blender 2.83 with Lily 1.1.3 same thing It drives me crazy...
I have every other option in the menu working fine .
Thanks for the program.
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2 months ago
gorgoth0
Cody196
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5 months ago
Ricardo777
Ricardo777
5 months ago
Angelus1701
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6 months ago
Marionettework
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7 months ago
alexmaq
I hope for you my best wishes.
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7 months ago
James1976
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7 months ago
cianpars
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7 months ago
suskey
i did try with a building that has had 3D for a longer time outside of my hometown, and it worked well! i don't see my hometown (worms) in the google earth 3d coverage overlay but it clearly has 3D buildings.
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7 months ago
NickHole65
cashilysh
4 months ago
Angelus1701
Images from Aberdeen Airport, Scotland
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8 months ago