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by OddRails
15 Jun 2026 00:21
Forum: Support
Topic: Track sinks in 2019 and 2022
Replies: 3
Views: 3303

Re: Track sinks in 2019 and 2022

Track sits on the terrain as it should in 19sp1, but not in 19sp4. I never installed sp2 or sp3.
by OddRails
29 Mar 2026 15:55
Forum: General
Topic: Welcome
Replies: 29
Views: 162315

Re: Welcome

Welcome Franck,

I'm confident that you will enjoy using Transdem once you work through the tutorials and then start your own projects. Since it's been several weeks since your post you may be busy enjoying Transdem already.

I now have a much nicer computer than originally mentioned and use Trainz ...
by OddRails
06 Jul 2024 07:04
Forum: General
Topic: How to import height data from existing Trainz routes?
Replies: 2
Views: 21617

Re: How to import height data from existing Trainz routes?

Hello BraselC5048,

As I understand it, TransDEM can adjust the route's elevation and edit the coordinates of a route's origin marker only on routes that you imported into Trainz via TransDEM. The TransDEM documentation will confirm that. However, this will only work on Trainz version TANE sp1 and ...
by OddRails
01 Feb 2024 02:32
Forum: General
Topic: Problem exporting city streets
Replies: 3
Views: 19143

Re: Problem exporting city streets

Matt,

In Trainz surveyor, from the object splines tab, you can use the "split spline (Q)" tool which will disconnect the splines from each other and relax some of the odd angles that resulted from Trainz connecting them together.
Then you can manually reconnect the most important splines that might ...
by OddRails
25 Feb 2022 18:46
Forum: Support
Topic: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019
Replies: 9
Views: 16305

Re: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019

Thank you. I had not even thought of checking the NAD27/NAD83 specification with the USGS GeoPDFs. I'll try using the OSM tiles if they are more consistent with the NAD27 specification.

I'm not the most sophisticated TransDEM user. I love the ability to import terrain into Trainz, it has made a ...
by OddRails
25 Feb 2022 06:47
Forum: Support
Topic: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019
Replies: 9
Views: 16305

Re: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019

Usually I get my DEMs and rastermaps from USGS The National Map client here in the USA. Often using the 1/3 arc-second DEMs. I try to be very careful arranging the mask to remove the geopdf borders, usually magnifying the map to carefully place the mask corners. Of course I use the convert to UTM ...
by OddRails
18 Feb 2022 03:48
Forum: Support
Topic: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019
Replies: 9
Views: 16305

Re: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019

I may not have had everything aligned correctly.
My edits in the .str file brought the poly lines in line with the DEM terrain.
by OddRails
20 Jan 2022 20:15
Forum: Support
Topic: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019
Replies: 9
Views: 16305

Re: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019

geophil,

Thanks for the tutorial on installing JOSM and instruction on how to use that to transfer data from Open Street Maps to TransDEM. Being able to do that for a railyard saved me days of struggling with paths and polylines. I'm a slow learner, but everything worked when the directions were ...
by OddRails
14 Dec 2021 19:17
Forum: Support
Topic: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019
Replies: 9
Views: 16305

Re: Railmap Online and Trainz 2019

Paul,

Thanks for sharing the website. Looking at a few of the abandoned lines that I've worked on which the tracks have been removed, it seems to me that the poly lines are drawn in using a best guess. I believe that you will need to reposition the track in Surveyor to adjust the grades. It will be ...
by OddRails
02 Dec 2020 20:09
Forum: Support
Topic: Merging raster maps
Replies: 8
Views: 11097

Re: Merging raster maps

I'm late to this discussion, I don't know if I'm helping much.

If you are using Map Tile Servers and the "Map along a path" mode, you have probably seen the ".lgb" files that are produced. These are just a text file list of the Geo-referenced Map Tiles that TransDem reads to find the tile images to ...