Just to share sounds interesting...http://www.planetinaction.com/Cheers,Andr

Just to share sounds interesting...http://www.planetinaction.com/Cheers,Andr

Very exciting Andre!-thanks for the heads up. I hope this will include the ability to display the highly detailed city buildings some of the Google cities have.

Your welcome would be amazing to fly over your own house :-)Yes indeed curious too...Cheers,Andr

Your welcome would be amazing to fly over your own house :-)Andr

Interesting concepts.And while I agree that it would initially be fun ... I think the limitations of GE technology would quickly become apparent.Cheers,

I agree but the first baby steps are interesting development and will have also positive and negative side effects...I think everything moving in FSX at the current stage isn't that realistic at all too...I'm going to follow this with great interest :-)Andr

Bing 3-D is doing some pretty great things. I thinlk that you need SilverLight.jja

Interesting concepts.And while I agree that it would initially be fun ... I think the limitations of GE technology would quickly become apparent.1) To begin with, there's a paucity of high-resolution satellite imagery and 3d buildings. While that will probably eventually be overcome,2) The technology at this point can't render images based on time or seasonality - there's no time-based modelling. It can only display its database of static satellite images.3) There's no 'living world' ... no cars, birds, animals ... nothing moves in these static images. And, there are things in the images that shouldn't be there ... cars standing still on all the roads, flat buildings, etc.I'm just not convinced that satellite imagery is going to be the way of the future for flight simming. I could be convinced, but so far haven't been.Thanks for the update, however. Moon Lander is one of my favorite games of all time!Cheers,

Looks like one of the biggest drawbacks, is no panel! So this wouldn't be useful for the normal FS simmer, only the ones with hardware panels gauges and all!!

Looks like one of the biggest drawbacks, is no panel! So this wouldn't be useful for the normal FS simmer, only the ones with hardware panels gauges and all!!

Yes i notice this too but did you read it somewhere? I was under impression that it was for the demo without panel?

Looks like TileProxy with some extra 3d buildings.However 3thd party addons with custom objedcts can be used with TP too.TileProxy Compilation Video

Looks like TileProxy with some extra 3d buildings.However 3thd party addons with custom objedcts can be used with TP too.TileProxy Compilation Video

Except for the fact that TileProxy cannot be used with Google only the two other inferior coverage services.

Just to share sounds interesting...http://www.planetinaction.com/Cheers,Andr

I Like the way they say its been attempted but never achieved... TileProxy did /does it fine, but they shut it down, ( Probably because this was in the pipeline, or they simply stole the idea from Christian....) Still, must not complain, if they offer google quality coverage to sit alongside the others then it cant be bad. I wonder how much it will cost, wether you can subscribe monthly or have to pay by amount downloaded......cheers, Mark

I Like the way they say its been attempted but never achieved... TileProxy did /does it fine, but they shut it down, ( Probably because this was in the pipeline, or they simply stole the idea from Christian....) Still, must not complain, if they offer google quality coverage to sit alongside the others then it cant be bad. I wonder how much it will cost, wether you can subscribe monthly or have to pay by amount downloaded......cheers, Mark

Indeed Mark I had the same feelings build on the idea of TileProxy.Curious how this one involves because I think It's the next logical step to generate the virtual world for different purposes.It can add so much more to the immersion factor as with generic texture or autogen stuff...Hence we could even have the actual traffic jams lolCheers,Andr

Interesting concepts.And while I agree that it would initially be fun ... I think the limitations of GE technology would quickly become apparent.1) To begin with, there's a paucity of high-resolution satellite imagery and 3d buildings. While that will probably eventually be overcome,2) The technology at this point can't render images based on time or seasonality - there's no time-based modelling. It can only display its database of static satellite images.3) There's no 'living world' ... no cars, birds, animals ... nothing moves in these static images. And, there are things in the images that shouldn't be there ... cars standing still on all the roads, flat buildings, etc.I'm just not convinced that satellite imagery is going to be the way of the future for flight simming. I could be convinced, but so far haven't been.Thanks for the update, however. Moon Lander is one of my favorite games of all time!Cheers,

re:3) Unless I am not understanding what you are addressing I have moving cars and birds, animals on all my satellite imagery presently. With the scenery complexity slider on max I also have airport buildings, towers, and all present fsx downtown buildings. In fact one of the things I really like about satellite imagery is the cars are moving below me on roads that actually look like roads!As far as the other two-you are correct-no seasons and no different times. For me this is less of a concern as I run the present generic sim always in summer mode because I think that is the most believable-and I also find the other seasons not convincing at all. If I want to fly at dusk/night-I merely turn the scenery off and use the fs generics-after all at that time one can't see much anyway. At this point my personal choice is to fly over scenery that resembles the real world 100% in one season vs. a world that simulates the "feeling" in 4.In any case these limits will be going away-there was talk about two years ago by microsoft about having shadowed/season based photoscenery (so long ago I don't have the link). It will be coming. The highly detailed google cities will be populating.I think the big deal here is google is allowing the scenery to be used in flightsim-that is a big step in the right direction.

how about combining fsx/shipsim/tileproxy?that'd give more traffic :)) (in the harbours at least)