Has anyone noticed the "Lack" of detail/resolution in the FSX terrain map mode verses the FS2004 map?Terry

Sorry Terry,I notice just the opposite.FS9 had to have addon to even get 79m detail. X ships with 38 for the US and I use Raimondo's 10m for the western US. Quite visibly more detail in map mode.It might show less if you have a lower resolution selected in the scenery settings. I rarely run less than 38m.Loyd.

Loyd, Changing the detail resolution to even 1 meter in FSX does not improve the mountain detail in the map mode of the GPS. Looks like one step backwards for the new version.Terry

>Loyd,>> Changing the detail resolution to even 1 meter in FSX does>not improve the mountain detail in the map mode of the GPS.>Looks like one step backwards for the new version.>Just a wild guess--Perhaps they decided to downgrade the map detail for a closer approximation of what the GPS units they're somewhat replicating can achieve. For instance, the Garmin 295 hand-held & 530 panel mount units, don't have the topography detail that's borrowed from the MSFS menu map page. It would take something along the lines of Garmins new 496 hand-held to get that kind of topography resolution.As far as the map page goes, it appears that my FSX version is the same as FS2004's.

>As far as the map page goes, it appears that my FSX version is>the same as FS2004's. There's no great surprise there! It is the same XML code. The only minor changes involve syntax, but those won't affect the topo map display... ;)