GSX Mapper easy & free

GSX Mapper is designed for simmers who want the fun of GSX .

Most downloaded profiles become out of date after 6 months & no longer fully accepted by GSX!

With GSX Mapper you can quickly populate a parking slot with VDGS,vehicles & pushback / walker / (de)boarding paths.

 

Editing in GSX Mapper

• You own GSX but gave up on profile editing because the workflow is too fiddly, technical, or time‑consuming.
• You just want to enjoy the show — passengers boarding and deboarding at any airport, from any stand, following routes you create.
• You want to design your own pushback routes quickly and visually, without wrestling with config files.
• You love seeing life on the apron — walkers at every stand, and yes, even wandering across rooftops for a bit of extra fun.
• The new vehicle paths are a great addition but quite tiresome to create and/or edit. GSX Mapper creates vehicle paths within a minute.

vehicle approach paths

Vehicle approach paths is a new section in GSX profiles that defines the exact routes service vehicles follow—buses, fuel trucks, catering trucks, baggage carts, and more.

Tips

Lavatory Services: Lavatory service seems to reverse on arrival ; so, ensure the vehicle points away from the aircraft.

Fuel Services : Approach the plane from the plane's tail, NOT the cockpit.

Bus Services: Approach the plane from the plane's tail, NOT the cockpit.

Catering Services: When approaching finish wing's width. Any waypoints nearer the plane forces it to reverse.
When returning , start wing's width of plane allowing it to reverse automatically.

At present, it's not worth spending any time creating paths for baggage vehicles and loaders!

Each baggage vehicle and loader follows a predetermined internal route and more than often ignores the routes you have created!

In the next version of GSX Mapper, these routes are fully visualised on the map. Each waypoint can be selected, dragged, and reshaped, allowing users to edit vehicle paths with the same ease as pushback routes. In addition , the user can create approach and return paths without having to use the GSX fiddly editor. Currently,very few profiles include 'vehicleapproachpaths' as they are quite cumbersome to create and/or modify.

Catering,fuel,bus Routes

Quickly compare different profiles for the same airport. Quickly pick your departure / arrival stands Easily select the most detailed parking slot with boarding and deboarding and no jetways Create your walking/boarding and deboarding routes within seconds Avoid jerky turns by adding extra points when making a turn.

VDGS

Download version V 2.51

Quick Overview

Click on each gate/parking.de-icing slot to check out what features have been included or omitted. The contents of each gate/parking areas has been graded making it easier to identify the most detailed slots . Left and Right Pushbacks are easily identified. Passenger boarding and deboarding routes are clearly marked in green and yellow respectively - see below Walking passengers follow a purple line see below. See where the Marshaller has been positioned. Check out the pushback labels. Create your own pushback routes . Once created , click and drag waypoints to finalise position. Create your own boarding and deboarding Create your own walkers routes And much more. Which Gate should I select? GSX Mapper is ideal to select the best GSX gate or parking slot. It rates each parking slot and shows whether it includes a jetway.

Profile: EHAM

Eham

Grading Each parking slot is graded based on the level of detail contained in its GSX profile. When you load a profile, you can immediately see how detailed it is thanks to the grading system. The grading also reflects how many gates or parking positions include precise coordinate data for their placement. Suggestions It offers targeted suggestions to help enhance the accuracy and completeness of each slot’s data.

Gsx Mapper 2

Editing Data

Positions for objects or routes can be adjusted at any time, without entering the flight simulation itself.

Walkers & Deboarders

Start at a point beyondleft wing tip of plane then draw points until 2 - 5 m from Deboarding Gate - lines' on tarmac can help you!

GSX Profiles

• Because GSX insists on using Navdata when validating parking positions, many—if not most—GSX profiles become unreliable in less than a year. As soon as the Navdata changes, the majority of profiles, regardless of airport size, end up with parking mismatches!
• This makes it largely pointless to invest time creating detailed pushback routes or custom logic if GSX no longer recognises the parking spot itself.
• Any profile that relies on this_parking_pos or parkingsystem_stopposition is especially vulnerable, because these values are tied directly to Navdata and will break as soon as the data updates.
• The irony is that GSX is perfectly capable of locating your aircraft without this_parking_pos. In fact, the most reliable profiles are the ones that use the fewest objects. The more objects you add, the higher the risk that GSX will reject the stand entirely.
• A robust profile should start with only the essentials—typically passengerentergatepos—and build from there.
• The good news is that routes (boarding, deboarding, pushback, walkers) are safe. They are not affected by Navdata changes and can be added without risking stand recognition. That said, pushback paths are checked to see if they run through valid regions.

Improved Instructions for Creating and Refining GSX Parking Profiles

How to Map all 'valid' parking stands

With GSX Mapper you can ceate a genetal profile for all airports included in FS2020/24 based on data stored in flightsim.

Just specify an ICAO code and click create. Import this into the GSX location reserved for profiles

Click Customize Airport Positions and at the top select choose profile to ensure its using the newly created profile.

How to get GSX to accept your new profile

GSX will automatically read any profile related to your current airport when launching the flightsim. However, you may have to persuade it to use your profile: If you are in the flightsim itself, click GSX and from within the menu click Restart Couatl - see image below

Add Pushback Endpoints

In GSX Mapper:

• Add pushbackrightpos and pushbackleftpos by clicking where the end of each pushback should be.
• These are endpoints, not the start of the pushback.
• Save your work — this enables GSX Mapper to zoom correctly into the stand.
• Then add pushbackleftapproachpos and pushbackrightapproachpos.
• At many airports you can see the painted centreline where the aircraft would sit.
• Do not add a this_parking_pos entry.

Add Passenger Gate Positions

• Add passengerentergatepos (and _deboarding if needed).
  However, GSX can be very unforgiving if you place a gate anywhere where you see a building ,implying that it must rely on some data . If it refers to an error and the idea of opening its log, the only way to avoid the loop is to take out the gatepos entry!
• Check your bus settings:
  • For boarding routes (green): add nopassengerbus = 1
  • For deboarding routes (yellow): add nopassengerbus_deboarding = 1

Create a Boarding Route

• Add a boarding route (yellow).
• Imagine the aircraft parked on the stand.
• Place your first point roughly halfway along the left wingtip, slightly beyond it.
• Then click your way toward the terminal gate.
• Finish the route near the gate entrance.

Smooth turns:

• To avoid sharp, jerky 90° turns, aim for 30° angles at each corner.

Select Customize Airport Positions to enter GSX Editor   Select Restart Couatl to force GSX to reload your profile.

'This Parking is Isolated'

When you hear this audible warning, it means that one or more coordinate entries in your profile do not match the Navdata

To resolve ths issue:

• Check all coordinate based entries to a parkingsystem .ie parkingsystem_objectposition = etc which includes coordinates.
  Review anything in your profile that references a parking system or aircraft position, such as:'this_parking_pos'
• After correcting any coordinates, save the updated profile.
• Load couatladdons.ini and REMOVE reference to your profile - more than likely near the bottom of the file.
• Press ESC and select END Flight
• Reposition yourself at the last gate/ramp
• You will here This Parking is Isolated' when reentering the flightsim but your profile should load properly. If not , check the coordinates of anything related to the plane - ie stop position etc .
  Stairs,Baggage,Walkers , Boarders, Deboarders, Pushback routes should not cause the 'error' message.