3 hours ago, MegaRiceBall said:

To be honest for countries with dense population and crazy number of cities such as China or India, I don't even think they could cover the whole country in one go. It could well be certain region(s) of that country each time or they will wait till 2029 when they have enough data and boom, a 50GB update that may break everything.

I also doubt China would give them any data.

17 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

I also doubt China would give them any data.

Yup, probably not since in addition to helping make your sat nav a phone app help you get to the nearest petrol station and make MSFS look pretty, that data is also useful for the optical nav systems of these things:

1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said:

I also doubt China would give them any data.

Google data for this region is only 2 to 4 years old, compared to Bing 3D maps typically 7 to 15 years out of date.... So sufficient data is there now to update Asia should some sort of share arrangement be made... 

Edited January 30, 20215 yr by ray hughes

6 hours ago, Brandon01110 said:

At least your house is represented. 

Sad thing is, my house is much prettier in the sim than in real life!😄 My girlfriend's is pretty swish too.

latest video from the developers explain that the update is indeed much larger then the UK as you stated.

Already said in the Q&A France and Belgium next in March sometime.

 

47 minutes ago, ray hughes said:

Google data for this region is only 2 to 4 years old, compared to Bing 3D maps typically 7 to 15 years out of date.... So sufficient data is there now to update Asia should some sort of share arrangement be made... 

Yeah. As a matter of fact, Google Earth has been updating satellite image of China almost yearly, which is surprising.

The images are surprisingly high quality and crisp, which is somewhat difficult given how frequently smog happened (mostly from fall to spring) in China.

 

I picked a place in the middle of China I don't think anyone is familiar with

• 04/2020 - probably some pollution
  
   
• 05/2019 - best quality so far
  
   
• 02/2018
  
   
• 12/2017
  
   

Edited January 30, 20215 yr by MegaRiceBall
add 1 more pic

The developers mentioned in their recent Q&A that the next update will be in Europe, covering multiple countries. That gives us hope that we'll see some regional developments in the future:-)

1 hour ago, G-RFRY said:

Already said in the Q&A France and Belgium next in March sometime.

 

Plus the Netherlands and Luxemburg.

 

2 hours ago, ray hughes said:

Google data for this region is only 2 to 4 years old, compared to Bing 3D maps typically 7 to 15 years out of date.... So sufficient data is there now to update Asia should some sort of share arrangement be made... 

I meant data they could only get from the government or government agencies.

Like height data. IIRC the Height data for the USA came from US Government mapping agencies.

I guess there could be high quality third party data out there.

Edited January 30, 20215 yr by Tuskin38

I really hope they will do a world update for SE Asia (Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan)