Welcome to osm2city’s documentation!

While the article on FlightGear’s Wiki presents in general terms what osm2city is and which features it has, this manual goes into depth with many aspects of generating scenery objects based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) data and deploying/using them in FlightGear.

Before you generate your own sceneries, you might want to get familiar with the output of osm2city by first deploying some of the downloadable osm2city sceneries and have a look at chapter Using Generated Scenery. See amongst others Areas populated with osm2city scenery or look for announcements in the Sceneries part of the FlightGear Forums.

User in the context of this guide means the end user in FlightGear using osm2city generated sceneries. Builder means a person using osm2city to generate a scenery.

Contents:

• Using Generated Scenery [User]
  • Finding and Downloading a osm2city Scenery
  • Adding to FG_SCENERY Path
  • Adjusting Visibility of Scenery Objects
  • Disable Urban Shader and Random Buildings
  • Showing Detailed Objects
  • Change Materials to Hide Urban Textures
  • Change Materials to Not Crash FG for Sceneries with Shader Buildings (BUILDING_LIST)
• Installation [Builder]
  • Pre-requisites
  • Installation of osm2city
  • Setting up PostGIS
  • Other Tools
• Preparation [Builder]
  • Creating a Directory Structure
  • Getting OpenStreetMap Data
  • Setting a Minimal Set of Parameters
  • Generating Elevation Data
• Scenery Generation [Builder]
  • Setting the Working Directory
  • Creating the Texture Atlas
  • Internet Connection for WikiData
  • Running the Generation Scripts with build_tiles.py
  • Consider Sharing Your Generated Scenery Objects
• Parameters [Builder]
  • View a List of Parameters
  • Important Parameters
  • Buildings
  • Linear Objects (Roads, Railways)
  • Land-Use
  • Textures
  • Other Parameters
• How osm2city Works
  • Specific Stuff
• Appendix
  • OSM Data in a PostGIS Database [Builder]
  • Developer Information

Indices and tables:

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page