In-game VS Satellite

[Shack95 2,658]

Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain

[Noooch 1,084]

The Bordeaux comparaison is interesting, on satellite,  the grass is yellow like in summer but in the sim pic the grass is green like in spring... seasons?

[OSJJ1985 134]

21 minutes ago, Noooch said:

The Bordeaux comparaison is interesting, on satellite,  the grass is yellow like in summer but in the sim pic the grass is green like in spring... seasons?

 

Who ever knows.... they might have used different satellite imagery.

[Cyrex1984 176]

34 minutes ago, Noooch said:

The Bordeaux comparaison is interesting, on satellite,  the grass is yellow like in summer but in the sim pic the grass is green like in spring... seasons?

I believe its color corrected.

[viz 139]

São Paulo, Brazil

 

[viz 139]

Seattle, USA (Offline Mode)








 

[Dominique_K 10,138]

On 10/11/2019 at 9:07 PM, Noooch said:

The Bordeaux comparaison is interesting, on satellite,  the grass is yellow like in summer but in the sim pic the grass is green like in spring... seasons?

What annoys me in the Garonne pic, is the color of the river. I hope that all the silted rivers of the world will be a yellow brownish and not blue. If orthos don’t bring the right colors, what will ?

[Shack95 2,658]

Millau, France

[richfx 41]

On 9/13/2019 at 7:45 AM, Noooch said:

Tekapo Lake, New Zealand

I’ve been there in real life and when this came out I instantly recognised it.

[seamaster55 75]

At this stage, I expect Microsoft will be satisfied to just provide us with the Bing PG Scanned (Photogrammetry scanned) cities, but, during the past few weeks I've been perusing the Google Earth PG scanned areas, and I would say there have been thousands of places scanned around the world, much, much more than the Bing data, also, the Bing PG scans of most of the cities doesn't usually include the suburbs, it tends to just be scans of the more central areas of these conurbations.

The google PG scans cover much wider areas, for instance, in the Appalachian Mountains areas there are loads of communities there that have been PG scanned by google.

Maybe when this new sim starts making a profit for Microsoft, then they could consider buying in the google PG Scanned data - to enrich the look of the built up areas. (villages, towns, cities etc)

[WarpD 824]

I do not recall any announcements indicating that they would be using Bing.  Care to point me in that direction?

[seamaster55 75]

1 hour ago, WarpD said:

I do not recall any announcements indicating that they would be using Bing.  Care to point me in that direction?

Bing is a Microsoft owned company, if you listen to the developers talking, they mention Bing imagery quite a lot.

Have a look on youtube videos.

[Shack95 2,658]

Vigo, Spain (photogrammetry)

[Claviateur 789]

I hope my home city Montreal along with other Canadian cities, will be Photogrammetry as well....

[Shack95 2,658]

1 hour ago, Claviateur said:

I hope my home city Montreal along with other Canadian cities, will be Photogrammetry as well....

It will be. Bing has photogrammetry for Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria.