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Bing Satellite Imagery Update

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Does anyone know when and how often Bing satellite imagery will be updated?

If I understand correctly, then it only happens with the world updates every 2-3 months and only for the area the update is about. I really hope, that I am wrong though.

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WOW! Satellite imagery updates every 2-3 or 6 months will be a very good improvement! I was afraid of update in a 2-3 years.😃

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As far as I understand it Bing gets in new imagery all the time but because that‘s very fragmented the MSFS team decided to bundle them and release them in bigger chunks in their world updates.

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12 minutes ago, OSM said:

WOW! Satellite imagery updates every 2-3 or 6 months will be a very good improvement! I was afraid of update in a 2-3 years.😃

But it is only for relatively small areas each time. So for any given area it is only every few years.

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If I take a look at my house the data is from 2016 (Germany)

If the quality is good enough, I don't care about the date but for me it is about the huge amount of areas where is no satellite image at all.

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2 hours ago, daniel_schm said:

If I take a look at my house the data is from 2016 (Germany)

I look at my area and its about 10yrs old, my suburb of the city doesn't even exist in MSFS

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2 minutes ago, jeansy said:

I look at my area and its about 10yrs old, my suburb of the city doesn't even exist in MSFS

Well, I have heard the satellites won't venture over your area as they get beer bottles thrown at them as they pass over - this may or may not be true of course - so much fake news these days! 😄

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2 hours ago, daniel_schm said:

If I take a look at my house the data is from 2016 (Germany)

You're lucky most of the UK looks like it's taken from 1972

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21 minutes ago, MarcG said:

You're lucky most of the UK looks like it's taken from 1972

LOL

as we know though only Southampton and Portsmouth are Photogrammetry anyway - very poor coverage

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I dont believe the high detail areas in Bing and Google maps are made by sattelites, i would think they were made with surveyor airplanes.

Otherwise there is no good reason why some areas are so low detail, especially the poles since a lot of imaging sattelites (also weather, infrared and UV for example) are travelling over the poles every orbit.

(North and South pole should have the highest detail according to that logic)

6 hours ago, daniel_schm said:

If I take a look at my house the data is from 2016 (Germany)

My house is close to a major building lot which was started in the last year and is in the sim. State around last Winter. Germany as well.

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