Our friends at Vertical-Simulations have just announced an expansion into the region-based scenery market with the release of VStates Florida, a new, colour corrected orthophoto project that aims to cover the entire United States mainland with photoreal ground textures.

The announcement came via the Vertical-Simulations Facebook page, where the developers discuss their vision for this project:

"The VStates ortho project is a project to ensure color-corrected ortho/satellite imagery for the entire US mainland region. Sourced from government sources it involves hand color graded tiles that integrate seamlessly with Ortho4XP. The imagery source is 97% cloudless and matches with most payware airports. Also included in these ortho tiles are the patch files for all US payware airports."

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The feature list for VStates Florida and indeed future VStates products was also made available in the post:

• Coverage of the whole mainland US
• Works/mixes color-wise with most payware airports
• Includes all patches of each payware airports
• Hand-colored corrected for definition/vibrancy/sharpness
• Built using Ortho4XP for easy integration to allow user functionality

VStates Florida is currently available for free from the Vertical-Simulations webstore, which you can find here.

The developer is still considering making the project payware though, which, in future, may range from $2-3 USD per state.