TransDEM Forum

For some aspects of route building I prefer Google Earth pictures as a map overlay, but sometimes the additional information provided in a proper map would be helpful. Also, sometimes the Google Earth photos are lacking in detail, especially when there are long shadows. So would it be possible to create two sets of UTM tiles for the same route and place them in different layers so they can be toggled? If so, would that require creating two separate base routes that need to be merged?

When implementing the UTM tile feature back then, I thought about allowing more than one layer. But that turned out to be rather difficult, as the UTM tile locations are managed at more than one place in the code and the code environment was not aware of layers, being written for earlier versions of Trainz. So gave up on this.

I have inherited an old route that has a Route Layer and two dated UTM layers. However when I try to hide the UTM layers in Trainz nothing disappears so I believe they were combined/merged into the Route Layer. Assuming this is true, if I delete the two old UTM layers can I then import newer data UTMs into the route? I have a list of the coordinates of the older UTM tiles to use as a reference, e.g., <kuid2:334896:90125:1> UTM-11S-477-3766

Only manually, I'm afraid. Automatic placement required TransDEM to read and manipulate the .obs file. However, due to the significant format changes that started with T:ANE SP2, TransDEM can no longer read the Trainz route files.