Ortho4xp question

[Taylor2.0]

Hi so when ever i get my things setup on ortho once i get a little bit into the download or whatever its called i get osm server was busy finding new tentive any ideas ?

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

The try again later method usually works. We've been having a lot of issues with the severs recently; if that doesn't fix it, try changing sever_overpass_choice in global config to 2 or 3, and write to global config. Then try again.

[Taylor2.0]

Originally posted by 🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉:

The try again later method usually works. We've been having a lot of issues with the severs recently; if that doesn't fix it, try changing sever_overpass_choice in global config to 2 or 3, and write to global config. Then try again.

Ok will try that thanks man :)

[Arbadacarba]

Why not go the Torrent route?
Thats what i did and it maxxed my bandwidth, i had no idea T's could be so damn fast.
Also heads up, i tried using Ortho but the files were just to large for my liking and didnt look all that spectacular to me, i installed scenery for Wa state and after unpacking and converting to DDS the folder, just for WA state was 133gb.
It looked ok, but honestly i feel the default textures do a better job of "Simulating the world" then photo scenery does at all altitudes.
For me the best solution was to just download the Mesh scenery v4 from here
http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-11-hd-mesh-scenery-v4/
i downloaded the entire US and its only 44gb and imo... looks better overall considering all Altitudes.
But of course its fun to try for yourself just wanted to give my 2 cents.

Fly Safe!

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Originally posted by SuperNeutral:

Why not go the Torrent route?

You might not realise that downloading Ortho4XP stuff outside the application is illegal...

[Arbadacarba]

Also i thing that happens to me when i only have certain parts of the world super bling, i tend to feel restricted and only operate in those areas which might be fine for some but i really like searching out extreme conditions which can take me anywhere, so for me MeshV4 is the way to go.

[Arbadacarba]

Originally posted by 🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉:

Originally posted by SuperNeutral:

Why not go the Torrent route?

You might not realise that downloading Ortho4XP stuff outside the application is illegal...

?? its listed as an option on the main page bud?

[Arbadacarba]

BitTorrent Distribution

BitTorrent allows us all to share the task and expense of distributing the files. When you download the files, you are not downloading from a central server, you are downloading from other generous users. Then other users download from you when you finish (called seeding). If you download the file and then remove it from your BitTorrent client, that's called leeching. Don't be a leech.

There is nothing illegal about using BitTorrent for this purpose and it is very safe. If you are new to BitTorrent, I would recommend the qBittorrent client (https://www.qbittorrent.org/) , which is an excellent, open source, BitTorrent client. It is very simple to use and doesn't come with any spyware or anything like that.

[Arbadacarba]

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/36327-us-orthophotos/

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Maybe not illegal, but it's unethical somewhere along the lines to re-distribute Ortho4XP scenery. That's a fact I know, but can't recall exact details.

[Arbadacarba]

Originally posted by 🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉:

Maybe not illegal, but it's unethical somewhere along the lines to re-distribute Ortho4XP scenery. That's a fact I know, but can't recall exact details.

Unethical to use user bandwidth to share files, i dont want to be mean here but wut?
Maybe someone should tell the thousands of users on Xplane.org using this methode to share huge download bandwidth how unethical they are

[Arbadacarba]

One thing to share copyrighted material that people want to earn money on, but this is a community project. unless we are just talkling about 2 different things i really dont understand where you are coming from.

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Right from a quick bit of research, it appears as if the general census is that re-distributing Bing or Google orthophotos may violate their terms of service, and thus breaking copyright laws. TBH for me, the application works perfectly fine once going, and the conversion process usually takes longer than the downloads anyway.

[Arbadacarba]

Originally posted by 🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉:

Right from a quick bit of research, it appears as if the general census is that re-distributing Bing or Google orthophotos may violate their terms of service, and thus breaking copyright laws. TBH for me, the application works perfectly fine once going, and the conversion process usually takes longer than the downloads anyway.

So the whole project is in violation of the TOS then

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Originally posted by SuperNeutral:

Originally posted by 🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉:

Right from a quick bit of research, it appears as if the general census is that re-distributing Bing or Google orthophotos may violate their terms of service, and thus breaking copyright laws. TBH for me, the application works perfectly fine once going, and the conversion process usually takes longer than the downloads anyway.

So the whole project is in violation of the TOS then

Because it downloads directly from dedicated servers, it does not. Somehow. This is where I'd have to spend many hours researching the precise laws of redistribution of orthophotos, but I won't.

[Arbadacarba]

Well this is odd, wonder why the admins havent taken that page down, well no worries for me im not really into the ortho scenery but this is very interesting.