World Update II - North America

[Tuskin38 6,491]

Thursday's news post has been corrected to say United States.

Edited November 23, 2020 by Tuskin38

[yanfeng12342000 132]

18 hours ago, mtr75 said:

Did my first flight in Japan yesterday. The terrain data is so accurate you can follow roads through valleys in mountain ranges. I was very impressed. In the 152 on generic ultra settings. 

We are probably referring to two different things. I am talking about digital terrain elevation, which is quite lacking in MSFS. You might be talking about ortho resolution, which is mostly very good even for default maps. 

[Dominique_K 10,138]

15 hours ago, conundrum said:

Well then, it would have been relatively simple for them to include Canada in Tuesday’s world update. 
But I expect they are just getting each other confused. Jaynes forum post says USA.

I was specifically referring to 1m HR mesh. Canada is fully covered with a 30 m elevation mesh if memory serves me well.

Edited November 23, 2020 by Dominique_K

[J0nx 48]

Will this get rid of the spires that are all over in mountainous areas? The Elkins WV area looks hideous. That was one of the main reasons I was looking forward to this sim and that area looks like butt.

[conundrum 49]

2 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

I was specifically referring to 1m HR mesh. Canada is fully covered with a 30 m elevation mesh if memory serves me well.

What res do they use in sim currently?

[desbean 357]

55 minutes ago, J0nx said:

Will this get rid of the spires that are all over in mountainous areas? The Elkins WV area looks hideous.

Southwest Virginia is covered with them also, including a giant one next to my favorite airport there. Lets hope the update fixes it.

Edited November 23, 2020 by desbean

[Dominique_K 10,138]

37 minutes ago, desbean said:

Southwest Virginia is covered with them also, including a giant one next to my favorite airport there.

These are statistical errors. It is amazing to see them in MSF knowing that most of the available meshes in P3D are much cleaner. This sim is superb in many ways but also sometimes the team curiously cuts corners and brings back pre-FSX gremlins.

I wonder whether they have a GIS expertise within the team ( Same with the trees anomalies, by the way). I think not. It looks like they import stuff from Bing without much consideration. 

The future ? On one side, they « plan »  to look into the mesh issues in 2021. On the other hand , they say that they will bring a HR (hopefully clean) mesh to cover the US after Japan in two days.  So there are reasons to be optimistic. And who knows, Europe afterwards ? Then the world 😄!  Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus 🎅 ! 

1 hour ago, conundrum said:

What res do they use in sim currently?

It seems that  there are various mesh resolutions over the world. 

[Alaska738 8,407]

Only North america? Or this will also include the caribbean, central america and south?

I have a doubt, will this be part of the seventh update tomorrow?

 

[frankla 44]

8 minutes ago, Schwarzgruber said:

Only North america? Or this will also include the caribbean, central america and south?

I have a doubt, will this be part of the seventh update tomorrow?

Just US.

 

[Tuskin38 6,491]

1 hour ago, Schwarzgruber said:

Only North america? Or this will also include the caribbean, central america and south?

I have a doubt, will this be part of the seventh update tomorrow?

It's only the USA. Thursday's post saying North America was a typo which has now been corrected.

That video is also unrelated to the world update. They've released videos for most of the world in that format.

Edited November 23, 2020 by Tuskin38

[Alaska738 8,407]

11 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

It's only the USA. Thursday's post saying North America was a typo which has now been corrected.

That video is also unrelated to the world update. They've released videos for most of the world in that format.

Okay, thanks for your clarification! 

[Old_As_Dirt 160]

[Tuskin38 6,491]

Someone posted it already.

[marsman2020 1,310]

USGS has maps of their available DEMs here - https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/3dep/3dep-product-availability-maps

 

[NightOfDreams 370]

I wonder what time the World Update II - North American is being released???

Will I have to sit thru a full update since i guess they're not updating anything else today???