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Bing Maps Accuracy

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15 hours ago, highflyer2020 said:

i recall they are not just using Bing Maps data that you can see on the public website but also other commercial satellite data that is also available to them but not yet on Bing. This explains how some areas in the videos we have seen look very good and well mapped but if you go visit them in Bing they don't look very good.

 

I.e below FS2020 vs 2D bing map data.

 

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So this gives me hope that we should have good scenery in most places!

I think you are right they are using multiple sources, but I'm not aware this extends to satalite imagery. Don't these all come from bing maps / 3d cities?

Take the example above, it's quite obviously the same aerial image but with different atmospherics in the sim and AI autogen and procedural tech to enhance the look.

The bing maps rendering is pretty basic, I would wager the source material looks a lot better than it appears in bing maps so I wouldn't trust that as a reference colour accurate copy of the original image.

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