{"id":607,"date":"2026-01-24T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/?p=607"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:28:12","slug":"improved-landscapes-will-now-support-both-condor-2-and-condor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/improved-landscapes-will-now-support-both-condor-2-and-condor-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Landscapes will now support both Condor 2 and Condor 3."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past years we&#8217;ve done some experimenting and made some improvements to our tutorial.\u00a0 Here is a brief summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The final landscape will now be usable with either Condor 2 or 3.<\/li>\n<li>Runway appearance is much improved by use of the actual surface imagery.<\/li>\n<li>The area around the airport is done at much higher resolution.\u00a0 In our older landscapes resolution was limited to about 2.8 meters\/pixel.\u00a0 We now go to a resolution of .35 meters\/pixel.\u00a0 You can see the dashed lines dividing a highway.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve done better integration of public terrain data.\u00a0 This results in a more realistic thermal map and also a forest map that covers the entire landscape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/join-us\/\">contact us<\/a> if you have questions.\u00a0 You can request a FREE local landscape for your club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/request-a-free-landscape-for-your-club\/\">using this form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Over the past years we&#8217;ve done some experimenting and made some improvements to our tutorial.\u00a0 Here is a brief summary: The final landscape will now be usable with either Condor 2 or 3. Runway appearance is much improved by use of the actual surface imagery. The area around the airport <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/improved-landscapes-will-now-support-both-condor-2-and-condor-3\/\" title=\"Improved Landscapes will now support both Condor 2 and Condor 3.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}