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It is 1/3 data.

The map looks like real life.

Harold

You mean like this:



Harold

I converted the .shp to a .kmz and am looking on Google Earth at the Millville, NJ area where I grew up and there are routes long abandoned showing up.

Same with Delaware where I am living now.

Neat!
Harold

Found this reference over on Elvas Tower Forum:

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2014/polyline

Download Railway Network, the file has all the routes in the US in a .shp file.

In TransDEM load the DEM of your desired ...

Found this site on the Model Railroader forum:

http://www.msrailroads.com/Google_earth.htm

Really amazing site! KMZ's cover even the abandoned sections.

Harold

Made a new map as TRS/2006 and it doesn't have the blank spots.

What does "untextured" mean in your case? Is this the default Trainz grey/orange grid texture? Or the TransDEM ground textures? If the latter, it may have to do with the notorious "hardware texture compression" feature. Uninstall the TransDEM ground textures in Content Manager and reinstall them ...

Looking at them more in other spots, the patches are transparent, I went to an area where clouds appeared.

Some show up in the same spots. Others areas go transparent at other times.

They appear in untextured and textured areas.

The textures appear normal in the textured areas.

http://www ...

They disappear as you approach and if you spin new ones appear.

The patches appear in Driver also. The picture is from driver not surveyor.

They aren't permanent. The patches "flicker" on and off.

Harold

I am getting what appear to be white patches on my DEM:



They disappear when approached.

I am runnning TS2010 in Win7 64 witn a GTX260 video card in Direct X.

Harold

Also appear in TS2009