This website is the place for everything about forests in the flight simulator X-Plane. Mainly it holds free scenery downloads (forest overlay for the Global Scenery). The scenery is completely based on GIS data derived from different organizations like EEA (for the CORINE Land Cover data) or the MRLC Consortium (for then National Land Cover Database 2001 data).
Scenery development is mainly done with open source tools on a Linux platform. The most important is the GIS Tool GRASS which is scripted with some BASH code. Also very helpful - for some data visualization - is QGIS. And as we also have to create artwork, we heavily rely on the image manipulation software GIMP. Last but not least, OpenOffice is playing an important role, as it helps in working with the data, and is also our main tool to create the so called forest definitions.
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