Since Asobo can't visit every place on earth and people will be getting Alpha access in the near future I think it would be helpful to list some places you are wondering whether they will render correctly or not.

For example, The Royal Gorge in Colorado:

https://binged.it/2sbCUON

Even on the highest zoom level there is quite a bit of distortion on two buildings.  I am guessing because of the excessive slope.  Having been there these buildings are right on the edge of the Canyon.  I am curious how the AI and its building rendering will handle these structures and the very steep canyon.

Will be a very curious place for someone to fly over once they have access to the sim.

Do you have any other places in your local areas or links to locations that you have found funky satellite images that you are curious how they will look?

I'm quite curious about Latin America, as we haven't seen many screenshots of there. Mexico in particular. Mexico City only has 2D imagery on Bing and many of the buildings are at an odd perspective, so I wonder if the AI will be able to sort out and represent the buildings adequately. I also wonder if certain landmarks will be present, like the Latin America tower.

Cancun would be another interesting place to see, and it would also be interesting to see how the AI handles places like slums and whatnot.

Any links to exact areas? We know there are plenty of “general” areas and continents (Africa, Antarctica) that everyone is curious about but I am thinking of specific places that would be interesting based on what satellite data is showing and might be troubling for the AI that can be specifically referenced. 

I would like to see some iconic cities (to me) from the south side of the globe.

Cities like: Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Johannesburg, Cairo and many others. Would be nice to see how the system put their nice geography + their highly dense cities.

Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. If they pull the trick, hats off ! 

The first thing I will do in Alpha testing is visit towns in South Africa, Australia, Asia, new Zealand etc. Will be checking for clouds in the Ortho and the level of resolution and scenery detail. 

Alpha 1 will almost certainly have limited locations/aircraft etc.

But basically locations will look as detailed and as accurate as the Bing map data is for that region

Road and railroad tunnels. And taxiway bridges, where those exist 

Sloping runways. Will all of them be as smooth as the Courcheval shots? In early trailer videos, the sloping runways at Seattle (KSEA) were visible, and it was not pretty. I assume its early WIP, but we're talking about 40,000+ airports, so hopefully whatever automated processes they're using doesn't need a lot of hand holding. 

8 hours ago, Mucker said:

But basically locations will look as detailed and as accurate as the Bing map data is for that region

I don't think so because Asobo already showed the noticeable scenery improvements where not enough bing data are available.

4 hours ago, Noodle said:

Road and railroad tunnels. And taxiway bridges, where those exist 

Sloping runways. Will all of them be as smooth as the Courcheval shots? In early trailer videos, the sloping runways at Seattle (KSEA) were visible, and it was not pretty. I assume its early WIP, but we're talking about 40,000+ airports, so hopefully whatever automated processes they're using doesn't need a lot of hand holding. 

Considering that ortho4xp, a tool developed for free by a single (french!) guy in his spare time, can already do beautiful smoothly sloped and wavy runways automatically where you can even set the level of smoothing you prefer (pictures included as proof) i wouldn't doubt for a moment that a big professional dev team with a ton of funding wouldn't be able to do it.

I wonder how steep mountains will look like, especially iconic ones such as the ones shown below. I’m aware the MSFS’s mesh is much better than Bing’s and thus the shapes of the mountains will be much more accurate in the sim. I thought a comparison would be interesting nonetheless.

Man-made structures.

Mesoamerican pyramids and Asian pyramid temples:

 

Hydroelectric dams:

 

The Great Wall of China:

 

I'd be interested to see if these are modelled or either accidentally misrepresented by Azure AI modelling or ignored altogether.

Just now, F737NG said:

The Great Wall of China:

Hmmm, I hope so, imagine flying the Cub  from the Pacific ocean to the deserts of West China using it as a VFR  navigation landmark ? 

The problem with all these teasers is that they wildly open our imagination  !

Just now, Shack95 said:

I wonder how steep mountains will look like, especially iconic ones such as the ones shown below. I’m aware the MSFS’s mesh is much better than Bing’s and thus the shapes of the mountains will be much more accurate in the sim. I thought a comparison would be interesting nonetheless.

 

An excellent point, they still have to say what resolution of mesh they use. 

searching for this kind scenery at the whole globe, can you imagine how long you will be entertainied. Nice times ahead!