[talk-ph] OSM Philippine data in the X-Plane flight simulator

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Hi guys,

I came across this neat blog post of a guy who simulated a SEAIR
flight from MNL (NAIA) to the old ILO (Mandurriao Airport).[1]

X-Plane[2] is a popular flight sim for Windows, OSX, Linux, Android,
and iOS and it renders pretty realistic flight scenery. Last year, the
developers decided to use OpenStreetMap data to draw roads, rivers,
and buildings.

The blog post contains lots of pictures of the simulated flight
MNL-ILO. I got a kick out of seeing the NAIA runways I drew in OSM
there, though I agree with the blogger that the lack of buildings
detract somewhat from the experience. (So lets all add lots more
buildings!) :D


[1] http://jomnisgames.blogspot.com/2012/03/island-hopping-manila-to-iloilo.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Plane_%28simulator%29