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I was browsing through new releases in the Marketplace and came upon a new release from Island Creations who seem to be focusing on Canary Island Imagery. The results are amazing, no doubt, but after checking the price I realized that maybe we will never be able to expect something like this from Asobo. 3rd party (both freeware and payware) are releasing this amazing products but Microsoft doesn´t seem to be able or want to enhance their star product in this direction. World Updates rely on out of date orto imagery and "no one" seems to care....Pity.

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it has always been this way, w enow have a much better base tho, i dont need much scenery addons, here and there some better mesh yes.

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Sometimes things can get messed up. The BeNeLux by Asobo update added quite few buildings but sometimes they are orientated wrong and this can then mess up the entire surrounding streets (Antwerp/Belgium around the cathedral is a nice example).

Since probably no one in the Asobo team has ever visited this place, what do they care....

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Because of your post I flew over the Cathedral. The wrong orientation might be obvious to you.

To me it's no problem (although you are probably right)

To me the landmarks in world updates are mostly meaningless.

I'd rather see that they bring harbours and water ways alive.

 


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Consider this is 7 GB for the small El Hierro Island alone. Add the enhancements for the other Canaries which I think are available as well. Next, add a high-resolution mesh and a few payware airports. Finally, sum this all up. What's the result?

And this is for the Canaries which are a picturesque but certainly small part of the World. Would you have MS streaming this amout of data over our connections which for some of us are already exhausted with the present data volume, aside the processing power for the streaming data?

Recall people moaning about the amount of data for the ORBX True Earth Regions?

I think, MS/Asobo found a pretty good compromise. If they manage to iron out a number of remaining niggles like terrain morphing I am content with their approach.

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Yes, you are definitely right pmb. It´s just that sometimes I miss better aerial imagery.

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6 minutes ago, hansb57 said:

Because of your post I flew over the Cathedral. The wrong orientation might be obvious to you.

To me it's no problem (although you are probably right)

To me the landmarks in world updates are mostly meaningless.

I agree on that, you only know this when you know how it is in real life. Same for the surrounding streets but before the adding of the cathedral the surrounding streets looked fine and one could orientate by looking at them. Now it's like... where the hell am i.

Adding of the cathedral messed up the surrounding streets too.

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9 hours ago, Lange_666 said:

I agree on that, you only know this when you know how it is in real life. Same for the surrounding streets but before the adding of the cathedral the surrounding streets looked fine and one could orientate by looking at them. Now it's like... where the hell am i.

Adding of the cathedral messed up the surrounding streets too.

Report it on Zendesk.

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MFS is the first application to stream imagery that the user can scroll in any direction at relatively high speed and different altitudes. The imagery could often be of better resolution but there might be still limitations in the compression technologies and availability of bandwidth for a majority of users.

As MFS is, in a way, a progress over Google Earth (yes I know it seems weird to compare both but think a minute, the two concepts are not that far apart when you strip off MFS of the gaming features), we could expect that the compression algorithms will get better over time and allow the streaming of better imagery, resolution and seasonality. The low orbit satellites already bring us amazing images. Pity that Bing does not get them.

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