Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. As of 2021, its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers 465 square kilometres (180 sq mi) and is on the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. The city centre and northern neighbourhoods are on Byfjorden, 'the city fjord', and the city is surrounded by mountains; Bergen is known as the "city of seven mountains". Many of the extra-municipal suburbs are on islands. Bergen is the administrative centre of Vestland county. The city consists of eight boroughs: Arna, Bergenhus, Fana, Fyllingsdalen, Laksevåg, Ytrebygda, Årstad, and Åsane.
Trading in Bergen may have started as early as the 1020s. According to tradition, the city was founded in 1070 by King Olav Kyrre and was named Bjørgvin, 'the green meadow among the mountains'. It served as Norway's capital in the 13th century, and from the end of the 13th century became a bureau city of the Hanseatic League. Until 1789, Bergen enjoyed exclusive rights to mediate trade between Northern Norway and abroad and it was the largest city in Norway until the 1830s when it was overtaken by the capital, Christiania (now known as Oslo). What remains of the quays, Bryggen, is a World Heritage Site. The city was hit by numerous fires over the years. The Bergen School of Meteorology was developed at the Geophysical Institute starting in 1917, the Norwegian School of Economics was founded in 1936, and the University of Bergen in 1946. From 1831 to 1972, Bergen was its own county. In 1972 the municipality absorbed four surrounding municipalities and became a part of Hordaland county.
The city is an international center for aquaculture, shipping, the offshore petroleum industry and subsea technology, and a national centre for higher education, media, tourism and finance. Bergen Port is Norway's busiest in terms of both freight and passengers, with over 300 cruise ship calls a year bringing nearly a half a million passengers to Bergen, a number that has doubled in 10 years. Almost half of the passengers are German or British. The city's main football team is SK Brann and a unique tradition of the city is the buekorps. Natives speak a distinct dialect, known as Bergensk. The city features Bergen Airport, Flesland and Bergen Light Rail, and is the terminus of the Bergen Line. Four large bridges connect Bergen to its suburban municipalities.
Bergen has a mild winter climate, though with a lot of precipitation. From December to March, Bergen can, in rare cases, be up to 20 °C warmer than Oslo, even though both cities are at about 60° North. The Gulf Stream keeps the sea relatively warm, considering the latitude, and the mountains protect the city from cold winds from the north, north-east and east.
GPS: 60° 23′ 22″ N, 5° 19′ 48″ E
Credits:
This scenery has been extracted from Google Maps, hence all 3D credits goes to Google.
This scenery has been generated with the Google Earth Decoder tool (credits to /u/Jonahex111):
https://www.reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/comments/j3faaj/google_earth_decoder_now_userfriendly/
Addon history:
v1.0: initial release
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21 days ago
Pilot1981
Thanks again for your amazing work Thalixte.
Would this scenery be compatible with the Bergen payware airports?
6 months ago
Unfortunately, i am not sure it is.
6 months ago
Thalixte
Chewie
Great work, looks stunning!
1 years ago
Spiffle
Thank you !
1 years ago
deepstar
It's a great work! Thank you!
1 years ago
kapazunder33
Love the scenery! You wouldn't consider adding Fyllingsdalen and/or other areas?
1 years ago
johannkl
Exellent 😊 Best scenery of Bergen so far... And I am living here so I am pretty happy with this one. Thank you.
1 years ago
Coming from a Bergen citizen, is is the best reward, i guess (never being there, but it seems to be a pretty good place to live) :)
1 years ago
Thalixte
tjeniel
Good work and great to see you adopting the trees terraforming
1 years ago
Thks a lot, but no, i did not use your technique, sorry. I updated my tools to be able to better display the autogen trees. The key point here is that i use my own height data, based on the google earth tiles (i use ray casting to guess the height data, which gives to me a 5m DEM). And as of Bergen, surprisingly, the MSFS/Asobo DEM are quite good.
1 years ago
Thalixte
John_Lovell
bonjour, je voulais simplement vous remercier. Votre travail est toujours impeccable. Cordialement
1 years ago
asgard85
Extremely good work. I'm very impressed with how well it fits into the surrounding landscape. No real difference to the Asobo photogrammetry. Quality and sharpness of the textures also look very good. Roads are working. Performance is excellent as well.
I'm really glad you're constantly working on making your PG sceneries better and better all the time. So many others are just pumping out mediocre or bad quality PG sceneries.
Thank you!!
1 years ago
Oh, thank you very much :) . It is my pleasure to bring to you high quality sceneries. I have chosen Bergen because it is a perfect candidate to test the last updates of my tools, that effectively blends better with the surrounding landscape, and now provides a better integration of the autogen vegetation. I m also able to laser cut the tiles in order to remove the forests, the woods and the water, and it is much easier to create sceneries now (the script now also creates automatically exclusion polygons). But i have a lot of testing remaining, so in the next weeks, i will surely provide new cities, in order to validate my new tools. Then, i will be able to update the UI to use those new scripts, and share it to the community.
1 years ago
Thalixte
Archer374
Nice one! Seems a bit crisper than the enjoyitfly offering. Many thanks 😊
1 years ago
mattius