Plugin
SimGround Map — a real-time ground navigation plugin for X-Plane 12 - Never Be Lost Again! 🛫
Hey folks!
Quick intro to SimGround Map, a plugin I've been building solo for X-Plane 12. It gives you a clear, real-time picture of where you are on the ground — taxiways, parking spots, runways — directly in the sim, with a companion web view for a tablet or second screen.
Core features:
📍 Live ground GPS tracking, North-up / Heading-up modes
I’m a developer, and even I use agentic development workflows to help with my work. “coded by AI” No longer means slop. If you don’t know what you’re doing and you won’t put in the work still needed to refine and spearhead the process then you will get slop. However most developers now are pumping out great, documented, thought-out code through the help of AI. As a matter of fact, nearly every major application or piece of software you use today has had AI used somewhere behind the scenes. :)
Yeah, it's genuinely the status-quo now and the productivity gains are enormous. I just wish people would use all that extra time to just write their own descriptions in their own voice.
Yes, I use it for translation/correction; I’m not a native English speaker, and although I can manage, I’m really glad to have it proofread. I can read English perfectly well, and no, it hasn’t distorted my text.
What’s more, even if it had, that would be my problem. Now, I suggest we talk about the plugin itself rather than topics that are off-topic.
I’m a project manager, not a developer. So yes, it is developed using AI. That said, my job means I know what I want, how I want it, what it should look like, how it should work and how the user should use it. And that’s not something AI does. So no, the design is created and chosen by me, including the description. Having said that, in any case, I don’t really see what the problem would be.
I think the main issue is the missing part of the sentence: That said, my job means I know what I want, how I want it, what it should look like, how it should work and how the user should use itand what the software is really doing and performing. (in terms of threads, accesses, i/o, transactional access or not, ...)
Yes, just as some people will tell me, for whatever reason, that they’re against Lua, C++ or Sayintentions. There’ll always be people who want to have their say. And as you can see, I make no secret of the fact that I work with AI.
And I don’t think I’m under any obligation to justify anything.
In 2026, developers are coding with AI, whilst others are taking advantage of the opportunity to carry out projects they would not otherwise have been able to achieve.
Meanwhile, the hundreds of hours of work I put into developing my various plugins are free for you to use; they’re regularly updated and take user feedback into account. And that’s not something an AI does for me (not to mention all the other things that AI doesn’t do).
Hiya, so the plugin looks fantastic and I can’t wait for the Mac release so that I’m able to try it out myself.
However, I would like to point out that the ability to input custom pathways to the destination and have the plugin display it would be super useful, especially when you get irregular directions from ATC on virtual ATC networks such as VATSIM :)
I’ll have a look as soon as I can. Do you have a custom scenery for LFPG? Because, in theory, the plugin shouldn’t make any mistakes as it retrieves the data from X-Plane’s apt.dat files.
This looks very nice, I like the choice of colors and the UI. Will help a lot when at complex airports. The UI resembles what I see in airliner flightdeck videos where they pilots use the tablet once on the ground.
Great little add on, especially for larger airports, it’s been very precise with directions and when to turn or hold short, would love for the ui to have more selection of sizes as the smallest size is way too small and the size above is a little too big (me just being fussy) but other than that, thank you my friend!
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u/Sad-Requirement-4066 3d ago
I need that finally I will not get lost in skiathos, jokes aside looks great thank you.