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In-game VS Satellite

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Seattle, USA

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San Francisco, USA

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San Francisco, USA

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San Francisco, USA

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Strasbourg, France

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Cool, thanks for you work, time to analyse!

Victor Roos

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Thanks Noooch! Amazing how Azure processes the satellite images. In the Arcachon image for instance you can still see the line where different satellite images meet, but it looks so much better in MSFS. Especially the shallow waters and the beaches look great.

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2 minutes ago, Shack95 said:

Thanks Noooch! Amazing how Azure processes the satellite images. In the Arcachon image for instance you can still see the line where different satellite images meet, but it looks so much better in MSFS. Especially the shallow waters and the beaches look great.

I think they used different imagery on the bottom half part of the screenshot. On the in-sim shot we can see there's a cloud on the imagery, but on the bing one there's no cloud. 

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Great post! Stunning comparison. Now I really begin to feel all other sims and scenery addons are in serious trouble.

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The new sim really looks even more incredible when you compare it like that, knowing it is using said Bing Map data to generate it's own scenery.  The tech in MFS really does seem impressive and revolutionary for the flight sim genre.

I would also include the location on the post... but good job 🙂 

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32 minutes ago, aleex said:

I would also include the location on the post... but good job 🙂 

Done

4 hours ago, ca_metal said:

I think they used different imagery on the bottom half part of the screenshot. On the in-sim shot we can see there's a cloud on the imagery, but on the bing one there's no cloud.

You're right, that's possible. Mind you it's quite a coincidence that the line separeting the two sat images is at the exact same spot. I don't know. But if they used different imagery that would be great news as Bing images aren't the best in some places.

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6 hours ago, Noooch said:

South of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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This pic impresses the most. It looks like hot garbage on Maps but the sim makes it look sooooo much better. It is a good indicator that places that don't have as much satellite data will still be represented nicely in the sim.

 

5 hours ago, Shack95 said:

Thanks Noooch! Amazing how Azure processes the satellite images. In the Arcachon image for instance you can still see the line where different satellite images meet, but it looks so much better in MSFS. Especially the shallow waters and the beaches look great.

Good eye.

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That Tanzania picture has to be 100% land class doesn't it?

It looks nothing like the satellite photo. 

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