You may want to have a look at those slides, talking about VFR landmarks in flight simulators with openStreetMap data.

If you're lucky to have good osm coverage for your area, you can have something pretty close to reality imo, well enough at least to be able to fly vfr using the same landmarks as in reality. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Tij0QLWpQ

On the left side of the river Aura you can see the city downtown and on the right edge of the screenie there's my neighbourhood. simheaven ZL16 + osm data only
 

It's great!  B)