Hope this can help. Currently another person and I are working on a layout and he is taking screenshots from Google Earth for the basemaps. When I get them they are 1024 x 1024 in size and he gives each a number, for example 200, then 201 etc. I have a number of basemaps files, the original 9 I start with and change a few details. I change the kuid number to my own (not really required) and then use his number in the kuid number for the "folder" and Config file, such as 72076:200/72076:201 and etc. I also change one particular line shown below;
kuid "<kuid2:72076:200:2>"
region Basemaps
type Noel
trainz-build 2
category-region-0 "UK"
category-era-0 "1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s"
category-class "YM "
website
asset-filename "1km Basemap G"
username "1km Basemap 200"
author "Kevin Hale"
organisation ""
contact-email
contact-website
At the moment I am up to 342 basemaps and slowly adding them to our baseboards/layout. As said the size of the basemap will overlap a baseboard but this is OK. I place a basemap anywhere I want but I have to remember that the basemap loads in the top left hand corner. So this is the corner where I can rotate and move the basemap. It does not matter if I am working from south to north or any other way (east, west, etc), as long as I remember to use the top left hand corner. If I do not the basemap can move around in a rather funny way. A little practice with this helps to get started. You can lay the basemap scenery item anywhere, it does not really need to be in the top left hand corner of a baseboard, it can be in the center or any other part of the board/layout.
As I said I am up to 342 basemaps, by changing some of the details in the Config file including the line in bold above. In each folder there is a screenshot with a name of "1km square a" (or b, c, d etc), so replace the original image with my renamed image of the same name. You may think "how can I have heaps of images with the same name in all these basemaps?", well it does not matter. What matters is the name of the basemap folder - 72076:200 and changing the lines I have in bold above.
If you are using 2009 though as you mention (and for others), there is an error in the Config file that 2009 does not like. I have marked the line in italics above, you need to change it to something like;
category-era-0 "1800s"
and the error will no longer show. I made this change in the original 9 Basemap folders/files before I started.
If you need any other help with this, just post again.
Hope this helps,
Craig


