New Zealand TIN cities and watermasks

Nelson at the top of the South Island has had the TIN treatment too (currently part of the city is not showing 3D structures due to a conflict with NZA’s Nelson scenery that they are aware of and patching shorty). The watermasking around the bay next to the airport is brilliant and makes all the difference when coming in on approach:

Across the Cook Straight, the captial Wellington is looks 100 times better than it did with Autogen, with the TIN recreation of the city centre looking its best with mainly low rise urban building when compared to past updates high rise skycraper cities looking rather disfigured from close range.

The TIN coverage extends quite far north, covering both the Hutt Valley and Pouriua, resulting in highly enhanced terrain all the way along the ILS/RNAV approaches for runway 16 into NZWN:


Unfortunatly the watermask blending around Mana Island is very jagged, and the blending with the ground textures at the far western side of the coverage area is less than subtle:

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