What is it?

MSFS Screenshot Coordinates is a program for MSFS 2020 that will write the current location of your plane whenever you take a screenshot.

The tool with which you take your screenshots is not important. You just tell MSFS Screenshot Coordinates the folder in which your screenshots will be saved and it will watch that folder. As soon as it discovers a new screenshot it will communicate with the running sim via simconnect and write the coordinates to an additional file.

What's in the Box?

  • MSFS Screenshot Coordinates

    The program that connects to your sim and writes the files with the coordinates

  • MSFS Screenshot Coordinates Viewer

    A viewer program that hosts a website on your local machine displaying an open street world map with a pin for every screenshot.

Downloads

Go to the respective releases page and download the latest release. You do not need the source code, just the zipped release.

Get started

Download each program and unzip to a place of your choice.
To start the background program run a command prompt, navigate to the folder you extracted the program to and start is as follows:

C:\FolderOfTheTool> msfs_screenshot_coordinates.exe "PATH_TO_YOUR_SCREENSHOTFOLDER"



To run the viewer you can go the appropriate folder and execute

C:\FolderOfTheViewer> viewer.exe -d "PATH_TO_YOUR_SCREENSHOTFOLDER"


After that you can open http://localhost:8080/index.html" to view the world map.

Use an ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE for the path

To make life easier you can set an Environment Variable to the path of your screenshot folder. Name it MSFS_SCREENSHOT_FOLDER.
This way you can just start both tools by double clicking them in the explorer.
If you want to know how to set an Environment Variable, refer to the interwebs, for example this Blogpost