World Update II - North America

[Zimmerbz 168]

I keep hearing about these world updates and saw that North America is slated for Tuesday.  However, I still can't figure out what exactly it is.  Is it scenery enhancements or something?  To me it isn't clear so I was hoping someone could explain what you get with it.  Thanks!

[marsman2020 1,310]

USA update is 4 new handcrafted airports, new digital elevation terrain model (1m resolution in many cases), new aerial ortho imagery for many areas, 50 new points of interest/landmarks, and a new bush trip.

New airports are: Atlanta International, Friday Harbor, New York Stewart, and Dallas-Fort Worth

This was discussed in last dev Q&A (Oct 28th).

The Dev Q&A videos are very informative, I highly recommend watching them to keep up on stuff like this.

Edited November 20, 2020 by marsman2020

[StoreyedTrain 13]

Should be same kind of deal as Japan.

 

Personally id wish they do South America afterwards, eventhough id guess they will do Europe first.

[ilpagaia 22]

I hope in a more realistic Grand Canyon area ....

Stefano

[dobee51 348]

Every time I see this thread I think, oh boy World War II Update. Until it soaks in. 

Must have warbirds on my mind...

[Will Fly For Cheese 1,710]

14 minutes ago, dobee51 said:

Every time I see this thread I think, oh boy World War II Update. Until it soaks in. 

Must have warbirds on my mind...

That's entirely understandable. I'm the same.

The old boys over at the sim outhouse haven't been idle. . .

It's going to be okay.

Edited November 20, 2020 by Will Fly For Cheese

[ryanbatc 12,928]

23 minutes ago, dobee51 said:

Every time I see this thread I think, oh boy World War II Update. Until it soaks in. 

Must have warbirds on my mind...

Hahaha I read it the same !

[Mike S KPDX 598]

"USA update is 4 new handcrafted airports, new digital elevation terrain model (1m resolution in many cases), new aerial ortho imagery for many areas, 50 new points of interest/landmarks, and a new bush trip."

What exactly does that mean?  I understood that the ortho imagery was continually updated from Bing.

[marsman2020 1,310]

37 minutes ago, Mike S KPDX said:

"USA update is 4 new handcrafted airports, new digital elevation terrain model (1m resolution in many cases), new aerial ortho imagery for many areas, 50 new points of interest/landmarks, and a new bush trip."

What exactly does that mean?  I understood that the ortho imagery was continually updated from Bing.

I am not sure.  That's just what was stated in the Dev Q&A.  Maybe they take periodic snapshots from Bing - I have no inside info but I imagine processing the imagery through the Blackshark AI to generate the buildings is resource intensive, so it might not be possible to constantly track the latest Bing.

[conundrum 49]

Still not sure why they changed the title to “North America” rather than “USA”.

[Colonel X 1,430]

KATL and KDFW, great choices! 

[Tuskin38 6,576]

39 minutes ago, conundrum said:

Still not sure why they changed the title to “North America” rather than “USA”.

Might be an honest mistake/typo.

Edited November 21, 2020 by Tuskin38

[conundrum 49]

Pretty sure Jayne referred to it as North America in today’s stream.

[Gridley 257]

5 hours ago, dobee51 said:

Every time I see this thread I think, oh boy World War II Update. Until it soaks in. 

Must have warbirds on my mind...

SAME HERE!

[NismoRR 191]

2 hours ago, Colonel X said:

KATL and KDFW, great choices! 

I was hoping for KLAS. KFHR is awesome as I’ve been doing a bunch of flights up there. Just started an OnAir company tonight at KORS and have an FSE flight into KFHR tomorrow.