POI Billboards of Russia – Moscow+ (Central Federal District)
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 Russia CFD with 68918 POI points
broken down to region (all 6 included):
RU-MOW 4579 POI points (Moscow itself)
RU-MOS 12995 POI points
RU-CFD-NO 13867 POI points
RU-CFD-WE 8024 POI points
RU-CFD-EA 11607 POI points
RU-CFD-SO 17846 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
All in cyrillic... simply useless
3 years ago
Come on, you just set HALF of the Star for all the Russian People :D :D :D
And now for serious part: ALL the PBof data is taken form OpenStreetMap as stated CLEARLY in the README. Precedense for taking a billboard text is as follows: international name, english name, LOCAL name and yes - for Russia it is mostly in RUSSIAN, c'mon :D
3 years ago
RipPipPip
Spacewolf1
Thanks!
3 years ago
You welcome ;-)
3 years ago
RipPipPip
THartmann9374
Any chances for an non-cyrillic version?
If german speakers are invitexd to read their language POIs in english, then Russians should be invited too, hm?
Not everybody can is fluent i nRussion or Klingon...
😉
3 years ago
Hi! No chance, practically. As I said before - all the data is taken from OpenStreetMap database and label selection order is as follows: international name, english name, local name. IF first two are empty then we go for local one :D
I think OSM guys are aware of that but OSM is a social portal like a Wikipedia, so if anybody not supplied english name than we have to learn Russian (same as Japanese, Nepalese and so on) ...
BTW: maybe a type name and the icon would help anyway, what is down there...
BTW2: In POIOSM2FS tool we have an option to filter out objects, which have no "latin" names but I decided not to use this as such lands as Russia would be a really empty place then :D
3 years ago
RipPipPip
Scooty