mezzoprezzo
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I was thinking of 2km square. Unwieldy perhaps, but potentially useful for general landscaping.
I’ve successfully upped the image on the 1km basemaps from the recommended 1024x1024, to 2048x2048, achieving much better clarity for track laying over GE images. It occurred to me that applying that image size to a 2km square basemap would be perfectly adequate for tracing general landscapes, (roads, hedgerows and the like), and be no worse than a 1km basemap at 1024 resolution.
The advantage would be that, for some of the less precise work, you could build and place into Trainz basemapped landscape area four times faster than building separate 1km versions.
Are there any available?
I found reference to a 1km x 2km version, kuid:101839:654006, in a Croatian site which came up in a Google search, but the translation wasn't good, and it’s not on the DLS. For beyond line-side distant landscaping, that could be a very useable size, as would a 1km x 3km, although any size which isn't square might need to be made in N/S and W/E orientation to be fully useful.
I was thinking of 2km square. Unwieldy perhaps, but potentially useful for general landscaping.
I’ve successfully upped the image on the 1km basemaps from the recommended 1024x1024, to 2048x2048, achieving much better clarity for track laying over GE images. It occurred to me that applying that image size to a 2km square basemap would be perfectly adequate for tracing general landscapes, (roads, hedgerows and the like), and be no worse than a 1km basemap at 1024 resolution.
The advantage would be that, for some of the less precise work, you could build and place into Trainz basemapped landscape area four times faster than building separate 1km versions.
Are there any available?
I found reference to a 1km x 2km version, kuid:101839:654006, in a Croatian site which came up in a Google search, but the translation wasn't good, and it’s not on the DLS. For beyond line-side distant landscaping, that could be a very useable size, as would a 1km x 3km, although any size which isn't square might need to be made in N/S and W/E orientation to be fully useful.
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