Changelog

All notable changes to OSM 2 XP project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

[4.6.2]

Fixed

Ability to generate a single tile only
Airfields were generated even when Airfields generation was switched off
Light strings now have slightly cut ends to avoid lammposts on roads near the road crossings
Default road type for wide roads changed to 14 to avoid trees nearthe road
Building type computation improved - fixed a typo for residential buildings and areas, other small fixes

[4.6.1]

Fixed

Small fix for Lights UI and defaults

[4.6.0]

Added

Street lights generation for some roads using Object Strings feature

Fixed

Serious brekdown which led to the multipolygon malfunction
UI fixes

[4.5.0]

Added

Ability to specify an object height for the object auto-selection in format like 10x12h6
Better console logging, like total generation time
Analysis of extra area tags, like place, boundary and admin_level

Fixed

Problem with the meridian 180

Changed

Generated airfields placed into the separate folder scenery_name_airfields

[4.4.0]

Added

Roads, Railways and power lines type constants are now configurable from UI and xml settings. Changed default highway road types to ones having light posts

Changed

UI fix - items generation is switched on and off on corresponding tabs instead of "Advanced" tab

Fixed

Existing folder deletion is now done in the background, not freezing the UI
Console mode is working again
OSM mode is working partially - bounding boxes and relations aren't supported yet

Removed

FlightGear, FSX and Fly! modes are removed from the UI, since they are broken currently and wouldn't be revived in nearest future

[4.3.0]

Added

Automatic exlusion management option - e.g. underlying scenery facades will be excluded if user choosed to generate facades

Changed

When generating multiple airfields - their folders named osm2xp_[icao code] will be placed in same folder with generated scenery and input osm/pbf file

[4.2.1]

Changed

Almost all X-Plane exclusions ON by default
Built-in forest files: density slightly increased

Fixed

Invalid tag numeric values parsing, which e.g. led '17;1' become '171' resulting in a 'skyscraper' in scenery

[4.2.0]

Added

Landuse areas analysis and landuse rules for facades, objects and other assets
X-Plane library generation feature
Local geoindex for nearest geoname obtaining (downloaded separately)
Configure rendering level for objects and facades from the UI
New facades in the default facadeset

Fixed

Multipolygon handling was invalid for PBF files - inner ways was determined incorrectly
Small UI fixes

Changed

Discontinued street lights support, since it's poor relative to mods like Enhanced Street Lights

[4.1.0]

Added

Selecting 3D object by type and size, ~50 houses models added to xplane/objects/house folder for this feature
3D object rules supporting models choosing by height
Facades from World2Xplane library
3D objects from open libraries and rules for them added for GSM, radio towers and masts

Fixed

Choosing 3D object by id now will ignore all other conditions if id matches
Calculating object direction
Removing duplicate runway segments and other small aierfield gen issues

Changed

Using Eclipse 2018-12 instead of Oxygen as TP. This should avoid Java 9 - related issues

[4.0.0]

Added

Console version - osm2xpc, lighter than UI one
Draped polygon support, by default - creating pavements for parkings
Database mode using MapDB - should allow slower generation, but for areas much larger, than before
/xplane/resources folder - all files/folders from it will be copied into generated scenario root folder

Fixed

Barrier generation - only types 'fence' and 'wall' will be treated as walls now
Airfield generation - uniting orphan airfields
Airfield generation - removing duplicate runways (e.g. when polygnal and centerline runways are specified)
Airfield generation - runways winding direction problems

Changed

Folder structure changed, e.g. all X-Plane stuff is now in 'osm2xp/xplane'
Build mavenized, tuned Travis for it on Github
LOD support fixed to treat given LOD value as maximal instead of strict

[3.5.1]

Added

Open scenery file action for toolbar
Action to generate only airfieeds not geneating anything else

Fixed

osm file support
getting exclusion zone coordinates from input file (was broken from 3.4.0)
rules for facades (height property not yet supported)

Changed

PDF reports are deprecated and no longer supported

[3.5.0]

Added

Airfield generation. Program is able to generate apt.dat files from OSM, containing runways, helipads, apron and taxiways
Restet perspective action

[3.4.0]

Fixed

[Critical] Different kinds of Out Of Memory issues, like "GC Overhead exceeds limit". Storage for Nodes and Ways was fully rewritten to ake much less RAM, for now generation of 500MB file needs ~4GB RAM, in previous implementation even 8 GB wasn't enough
[Critical] Much more failproof in case of "broken" polygons having self-intersections or partial node information. Added more logics to fix them, if it fails - generation just continues, without failing whole generation process

[3.3.0]

Changed

Polygon/tile clipping logics. Now pbf file is parsed only once and then special translator from OSM 2 XP handles polygon, if it (or it'part) belongs to current tile, clips to match current tile it and fixes geometry problems
Polygon cutting logics - polygons having holes are cutted to have no holes for building polys and at most 254 holes for forest polys

[3.2.0]

Added

Generation of cooling towers by selecting most suitable model (by diameter) from predefined model set
Ability to configure custom facades, e.g. for tanks/gasometers and garages

Fixed

Small fixes for multipoly handling

Changed

Extended facade set editor

[3.1.0]

Added

Basic multipolygon support (works for forest, but not for buildings yet - buildings still don't have "holes")

Fixed

Polygon simplification logics - it still gave bad results in some cases before
Some UI issues

Changed

Removed some old and unused libraries from build

[3.0.1]

Added

Ability to generate bridges for roads and railways

Fixed

A critical issue with wrong decimal format - this led to using "," instead of "." as decimal sign on some systems and generating invalid scenario in such case

[3.0.0]

Added

Generate roads with guessing lane count from tags
Generate railways
Generate power lines
Generate chimneys using object selection by chimney height
Generate tanks/gasometers using special facade
Generate barriers, two types supported - fence and walls
Facade editor - added facade preview, ability to specify fence/wall facade and some small features
Default facade set is shipped with program archive
Generate debug images - 2048*2048 png file can be created for each tile with generated buildings, roads etc. on it with scale 1px=1m
Ability to generate exclusion zone based on actual OSM file coverage, do not exlude whole tile
Ability to show console view, since it can be useful for diagnosing map generation problems and bugs

Changed

Use building:levels tag for getting building height when there's no height tag specified
Do not generate buildings for polygons with most of man___made constants specified - such objects usually aren't a regular buildings
Use special facade for building with type garage - regular facades for garages give poor results

Fixed

Incorrect distance computation when simplifying polygons - if "simplify shapes" was chosen, many buldings became octagons and looked incorrect.
Coordinates confusion - y is now latitude, x - longtitude, like it's on usual map

[2.0.0]

Original version by Benjamin Blanchet with ability to generate buildings and forest zones by OSM data