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Hi all I am doing some route building and want to use or try to use STRM data, what is the best system to use? , I ve seen the system boosted fridge on RWA forums use and the one matt pedleston used in his tutorial video?? Am also building a route without STRM data. what are the advanges of using/not using the data? What's the maximum size of a route you can build using STRM system??? Am newish to route building and the help/advice would be welcome

> what are the advanges of using/not using the data?

Using SRTM you get terrain that matches reality very quickly. Its very hard to hand form terrain - it takes some skill to get a realistic look at all.

> What's the maximum size of a route you can build using STRM system

You will run out of time and energy long before you hit the limits of the system.

> Am newish to route building and the help/advice would be welcome

Using SRTM is worth the effort.

Matt Peddlesden and Cactusjuice have pretty simple tutorials on how to do it.

[quote="wacampbell"]> what are the advanges of using/not using the data

Is there a maximum amount of the downloaded files you can add in or just as many as you want need

TheR62Fan wrote:Matt Peddlesden and Cactusjuice have pretty simple tutorials on how to do it.

I ll give these a watch and had a look at the searchlight simulations way as well

CN2899 wrote:Is there a maximum amount of the downloaded files you can add in or just as many as you want need

There's no maximum - other than hard-drive capacity.

The Water Level Route has 5003 @ 332Mbs for the base terrain, extracted from 1/3 arc data which I got help from a friend to process this all. That's from Hudson, NY to Buffalo, NY with about a ten count distant mountains buffer. and it loads fine without any scenery work added and then with the small 35 mile stretch from Utica to St Johnsville, it runs in the 90FPS range and down to 25FPS within the Utica proper area. But as far as terrain goes it does well for high definition terrain.

Here is the detail of the terrain at Little Falls, NY.

Thank you all for the help and info it has been useful