1 minute ago, SterlingCrimson92 said:

If this is the case, why not demonstrate the capabilities of the non-photogrammetry regions?

I think they have. More than half of the screenshots show non-photogrammetry areas. One reason for not showing more regions in Asia or Africa (apart from the above mentioned) could be that they aren’t ready autogen-wise.

4 minutes ago, SterlingCrimson92 said:

I also find it really hard to believe that the developers don't have photogrammetry of Hong Kong or Singapore, housing two of the most famous airports in the world.

Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. It’s not the developers who are to blame though but Bing Maps.

But I agree. I'd love to see more areas outside the US and Europe as well.

52 minutes ago, Shack95 said:

I think they have. More than half of the screenshots show non-photogrammetry areas. One reason for not showing more regions in Asia or Africa (apart from the above mentioned) could be that they aren’t ready autogen-wise.

Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. It’s not the developers who are to blame though but Bing Maps.

What we know now based on the peviews and tech videos is that anything outside the photogrammetry areas is procedural. It's generated based on the vegetation and infrastructure footprints / data fetched by Azure AI. The AI scanned the Bing Imagery.

So I am not sure it has anything to do with the Bing Maps.

The reason could be Marketing driven or the way the procedural rules are applied outside the US and EU.

We saw screenshots from Dubai and it looks procedural so I suppose the rules apply in a similar way to other places. 

Unless they need to refine the rules to make the rest of the cities have a plausible aspect (i.e: architecture types and height)

 

Edited February 19, 20206 yr by Claviateur

1 hour ago, Claviateur said:

So I am not sure it has anything to do with the Bing Maps.

What I meant is that it is Bing who decides what areas have photogrammetry and not the developers (in response to SterlingCrimson92’s statement above).

1 hour ago, Claviateur said:

Unless they need to refine the rules to make the rest of the cities have a plausible aspect (i.e: architecture types and height)

That's what I was trying to say in the first part of my post (as an addition to what's been mentioned before). Pure speculation of course.

Edited February 19, 20206 yr by Shack95

Sorry if this has already been mentioned somewhere, but over on the Flight Simulator site there is a community update linking to a map of all the screenshots.  Very interesting!

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?usp=sharing&mid=1IJYlVvT9fy9VQ9voO6cp-JS3LCBGCetW

Credit goes to u/Ansenton.

OK, just seen the previous post about this, saw Feb 13th update at the top of the list and didn't think there was anything new.

 

Edited February 19, 20206 yr by Grindathotte

52 minutes ago, Grindathotte said:

 

OK, just seen the previous post about this, saw Feb 13th update at the top of the list and didn't think there was anything new.

 

I merged your post to the existing topic.