Bing Maps up-to-dateness

[Kenjiro75 59]

I have just opened the Bing Maps page on Wikipedia, and I saw with disbelief that the last map update took place in 2010. So if I'm not mistaken, it means that in Flight Simulator we get a world that is very out of date... A closer look at my neighborhood on Bing Maps just confirmed it. Are the other towns you live in also like 10 years ago in Bing Maps?

[bobterri 13]

Bing maps represents about 2017 for my location (Davenport, IA, USA).  Only three years old.

[Tuskin38 6,496]

Satellite imagery around KSFO is newer than 2010, as the Terminal 1 expansion appears to be nearly complete (at least on the outside).

Which makes the imagery even newer than Google Maps, which shows it still under heavy construction. 

Edited April 24, 2020 by Tuskin38

[Shack95 2,658]

Also 2017 here (Basel, Switzerland). Same as Google, but Google has photogrammetry.

Edited April 24, 2020 by Shack95

[MrNuke 59]

47 minutes ago, Kenjiro75 said:

I have just opened the Bing Maps page on Wikipedia, and I saw with disbelief that the last map update took place in 2010. So if I'm not mistaken, it means that in Flight Simulator we get a world that is very out of date... A closer look at my neighborhood on Bing Maps just confirmed it. Are the other towns you live in also like 10 years ago in Bing Maps?

You are mistaken to trust a wikipedia entry as gospel. The platform is still being actively developed and their blog (which the wikipedia article sourced for their "updates" section) can be found here.https://blogs.bing.com/maps We can have a discussion about how up to date Bing is or isn't versus Google or other platforms (it will vary from place to place), a discussion that I believe has already been had here several times; but no the last update to their data didn't take place in 2010.

Edited April 24, 2020 by MrNuke

[bonchie 2,305]

It's different all over the world. And it's just the nature of the beast. It's still going to be 10x better than what we currently have in our sims.

[skully 1,045]

The Las Vegas area from the X019 video looks to be about 3 years old.

Edited April 24, 2020 by skully

[tweekz 2,165]

2010 seems about right for my city. Google is way more up to date.

[tpete61 227]

Google is no better, I find areas all the time that haven't been updated in years either.

 

[Amon1973 1,421]

2 hours ago, Kenjiro75 said:

I have just opened the Bing Maps page on Wikipedia, and I saw with disbelief that the last map update took place in 2010. So if I'm not mistaken, it means that in Flight Simulator we get a world that is very out of date... A closer look at my neighborhood on Bing Maps just confirmed it. Are the other towns you live in also like 10 years ago in Bing Maps?

This just isn't true as where I live (Sunderland, UK) in August 2018 a new suspension bridge was opened over the River Wear, on Bing maps the bridge is finish with vehicles driving over it, yet on Google maps it's still under construction. 

[Groovy_Kincaid 71]

Even Google maps/ street view is not up to date. If you buy a third party airport or city, these are out of date fairly quickly, especially in areas of rapid urban construction.

At least using MSFS’s model, if the map or 3D model is updated in the back end, then it should push through, assuming if this is the planned process.

[reignman40 450]

I'm in southern utah and its 2 years old. 

[Dazzaboy 81]

I don't care really . What happens in the air and around airports is what matters to me , and flight model of course . The eye candy is exactly that , if its up to date great if not so what . It will still be light years better than anything else on offer . 

[tweekz 2,165]

12 hours ago, Groovy_Kincaid said:

Even Google maps/ street view is not up to date. If you buy a third party airport or city, these are out of date fairly quickly, especially in areas of rapid urban construction.

At least using MSFS’s model, if the map or 3D model is updated in the back end, then it should push through, assuming if this is the planned process.

Airports are hand crafted to an extent though. Not just those 80+ deluxe airports.

[Thomasso 224]

1 hour ago, tweekz said:

Airports are hand crafted to an extent though. Not just those 80+ deluxe airports.

Yeah and remember that we're only talking RELASE v1.0 stuff. I imagine that there will be a lot patches with new functionalities coming after the release.

I kind of suspect that it'll be a subscription model, but I wouldn't mind it if the quality and updates are delivered. Much better than to pay $60 for something like P3D v5, which is a complete joke 🙂