Maybe someone very clever could develop a tool that can read the Maps of say Google earth and translate them into workable Trainsim maps it would save an awful lot of man hours and time consuming building work that computers should be able to handle easily.... Does anyone know what I am talking about?
They are waaay to low quality to do anything even remotely looking like TS2018 or TSW. Google Maps has airplanepictures with a resolution of something like 10cm/pixel.. for a clean texture of anything you would need more like 10mm/pixel or 1mm/pixel. And then there is the thing with 3D where the you only get groundlevel height, nothing on any other Objects. You can checkout the best on this inside google maps 3D view or google earth. Its good enough for some low-poly 3D buildings to look at from a virtual plane some hundreds of meters up. But years of development away from anything usable for a trainsim. The only way to anything reasonable at the moment would be with laser and photogrammertry. But there is the problem of actually going to those places and do all the recordings onsite with good light and from manymanymany positions all around.. You would never get the OK to do that on a complete route.. and the afterwork on that would still be massiv. It will be quicker to just do it directly in the editor and place 3D objects where they are in reality.
