Hello, 

CU1 = Cologne city in 3d 🙂, 

more news from MSFS at Gamescom tomrrow, 

as new plane, Heli news, and little more...

brds 

 

Edited August 24, 20223 yr by Epgd

That actually makes sense. or just content update 1. WHo knows..

Was hoping for London. Goodness knows it needs it. 

Looks like the source is from this Instagram story where Jorg mentions it: https://www.instagram.com/stories/msfsofficial/2911784123167294006/

City update would make sense as it would allow them to update all the new Bing Maps cities regardless of where they are, so they didn‘t have to wait for a respective world update. 

Yeah, maybe next time post a source instead of just saying it.

  

18 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Was hoping for London. Goodness knows it needs it. 

Well Jorg said in the Q&A it was connected to Gamescom, so that wouldn't have made sense.

  

35 minutes ago, Epgd said:

CU1 = Cologne city in 3d

He said a bunch of German cities, not just Cologne.

Edited August 24, 20223 yr by Tuskin38

3 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Well Jorg said in the Q&A it was connected to Gamescom, so that wouldn't have made sense.

Missed the Q&A but he mentioned that London needed revisiting a long time ago, to a chorus of approval. Maybe after Germany has been rebuilt.   

Yes indeed  CU1 - precisely is CONTENT UPDATE 1 - 

and this time is bunch of German airports, Cologne city 3d, some  Poi and Dem elev.. PERIOD

4 minutes ago, Epgd said:

Yes indeed  CU1 - precisely is CONTENT UPDATE 1 - 

City Update 1 not Content Update, Jorg says it in the video.

Congrats to everyone who guessed it correctly 🙂

So by "3d" do you guys mean Photogrammetry?

5 minutes ago, MarcG said:

So by "3d" do you guys mean Photogrammetry?

Jorg doesn't specify in the video, but I'd assume so. I think Cologne already has photogrammetry, so maybe it's updated photogrammetry?

The full announcement comes tomorrow.

Edited August 24, 20223 yr by Tuskin38

I do not really know what to think about photogrammetry. I see some screenshots/videos that look really good, and then I see others with half formed buildings, weird looking trees, and bridges/overpasses that have solid undersides.

6 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

I do not really know what to think about photogrammetry. I see some screenshots/videos that look really good, and then I see others with half formed buildings, weird looking trees, and bridges/overpasses that have solid undersides.

It all depends on the dataset. Even Google has those issues in some cities. It's created by a camera overhead taking tones of images and such, so some sides of areas will always look terrible if it's at an angle the camera can't capture.

Photogrammetry will never look amazing unless they start sending drones to fly down individual streets to take imagery.

 

Ah Cologne doesn't have Photogrammetry in MSFS yet. It does on the Windows Maps app, so it's probably that data.

Edited August 24, 20223 yr by Tuskin38

Didn't they once say they had a team dedicated to sprucing up PG cities?