I've been flying this sim all over the world. But I've seen these recent months a degradation of the maps in forgotten (not by me) areas in Afghanistan, Peru, China today. The detailed maps have been replaced by swathes of the coarse off-line ground.

 

EDIT made a post over there with a pic

Degradation of the terrain texturing - Bug Reports & Wishlist / Scenery and Airports - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

 

Edited January 17, 20233 yr by Dominique_K

Agreed, I've also noticed a similar degradation. I would add the Philippines and the Sahara desert in Southern Algeria to your list of forgotten regions.

Personally, I've never been particularly impressed with China from Day 1 - which is a shame. There is so much to see flying high above this huge chunk of land. From arid deserts to the foot of the Himalayas, from lush tropical forests to Siberian taigas and everything else in between.  

Cheers,

2Low2Slow

Edited January 17, 20233 yr by TooLowTooSlow

Try this mod ....

https://flightsim.to/file/19345/msfs-2020-google-map-replacement

Just now, Tony P said:

Try this mod ....

https://flightsim.to/file/19345/msfs-2020-google-map-replacement

I'd rather not but I may  have to...

 

Just now, TooLowTooSlow said:

Agreed, I've also noticed a similar degradation. I would add the Philippines and the Sahara desert in Southern Algeria to your list of forgotten regions.

Personally, I've never been particularly impressed with China from Day 1 - which is a shame. There is so much to see flying high above this huge chunk of land. From arid deserts to the foot of the Himalayas, from lush tropical forests to Siberian taigas and everything else in between.  

Cheers,

2Low2Slow

I am a bit annoyed because these are places where I flew in the past and which were rather good, like from Peshawar to Kabul though the Khyber pass.

In Chine I have flown a bit from Xi'an to the West border and in the South and the terrain was nice.

Edited January 17, 20233 yr by Dominique_K

That‘s a shame indeed. I wonder how this could happen. It looks like there’s no aerial imagery in these places and the sim uses offline textures instead. Maybe they‘ve updated these regions without noticing that the imagery is faulty. Thanks for reporting this in the other forum. Unfortunately something seems to be wrong with your bug report and we cannot vote for it.

Edited January 17, 20233 yr by Shack95

Just now, Shack95 said:

That‘s a shame indeed. I wonder how this could happen. It looks like there’s no aerial imagery in these places and the sim uses offline textures instead. Maybe they‘ve updated these regions without noticing that the imagery is faulty. Thanks for reporting this in the other forum. Unfortunately something seems to be wrong with your bug report and we cannot vote for it.

My first draft was closed because I had not followed the form. I edited it to put it in form (and added another pic) and it is still closed.     

Indeed there is a problem with terrain in some part of the globe. Below is an example from Pakistan.

This capture is from somewhere random in Pakistan.

https://ibb.co/2Wf1V3b

This capture is from MSFS in same location.
https://ibb.co/PCfKycN

I don't know where is exactly the problem because in bing the imagery is really good so the A.I. it shouldn't change the texture with generic one. It seems that there is a difference between bing data and sim data or is a difference between moment when the both are updated and the new imagery is bad.

P.S. I couldn't insert images from URL, it didn't work and I don't know why, so I just coppied the links here. Sorry for that.

 

 

I have reposted a 3rd (and last) time ! I see it as an important issue as MSFS is exemplary of a new realism in the scenery department.  

Feel free to contribute to this thread

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/the-offline-texture-replaces-the-satellite-imagery-in-some-large-swathes-of-land/570756?u=dominiquekl

if you share my concern 

I assume this will be fixed in due course. Expecting perfect terrain for the entire globe may be a little unrealistic at this stage. Patience ....

15 minutes ago, cobalt said:

I assume this will be fixed in due course. Expecting perfect terrain for the entire globe may be a little unrealistic at this stage. Patience ....

Huh?
It was working before, now it's not. That the issue being discussed here.

15 minutes ago, cobalt said:

I assume this will be fixed in due course. Expecting perfect terrain for the entire globe may be a little unrealistic at this stage. Patience ....

 What stage ? These areas were   all right sometimes ago. I know I flew them. It seems that there is now substantial land areas where the sim is not covered by sat imagery anymore. 

 

The MSFS team took notice of my post with a first  answer by Jummivana  : 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/the-offline-texture-replaces-the-satellite-imagery-in-some-large-swathes-of-land/570756