Does anyone know the status of the MSFS Scenery Gateway?

6 hours ago, Greazer said:

Does anyone know the status of the MSFS Scenery Gateway?

Whilst I don't know the answer to your question I don't even know what the scenery gateway is.

8 hours ago, Greazer said:

Does anyone know the status of the MSFS Scenery Gateway?

During the last Q&A they said that is still in closed testing https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/february-2023-developer-stream/574504     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSYyrfwP8BE&t=1422s

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Jayne - This can make it difficult to accept taxi instructions from ATC [air traffic control] and even more difficult when using a network like VATSIM. Is there something blocking this from being fixed?

Martial - So, what’s blocking is the lack of data. So, in order to get more data, we’re going to introduce the new tool, which is called internally (and I think that would be the final name): World Hub. The World Hub is a tool that allows people to do some editing on the world, especially on airports. So basically, everybody who sees some discrepancies between what we have in the sim and what is intended should be able to do a tweak using this tool. So far, this tool is in test. It’s going to be shared with more than 50 people. And if everything’s going well, it will be shared with many of you.

Jayne - We’re looking forward to the World Hub beta. Next question:

 

The original idea was for developers to submit their custom airports. But this 'Hub' sounds more like just tweaking the defaults(?)

I believe the term "Scenery Gateway" refers back to that created for XPlane 11(?) some years ago.

https://gateway.x-plane.com/

This made it possible to use the XP World Editor to modify and update the default airports to a higher standard. From my perspective, it worked surprisingly well in creating 3D airports that were superior to what originally were quite rudimentary XP airports. It would seem that this would be harder to do in MSFS, because the quality of the defaults is significantly better than that which existed in XP before the Scenery Gateway.

Having said that, I would guess that the vast MSFS community would, if the World Hub ever becomes available along with a relatively straightforward airport editor, do a great job in upgrading the default airports. This is not a trivial effort for Asobo, however, because in addition to creating the necessary software systems, it would also need to provide ongoing curation for submitted upgrades as well. Not a small job......

I’m hoping it morphs into something a lot more versatile, something that would allow users to make scenery adjustments like tree placement away from airports. 

There are few things which impair immersion for me more than seeing trees in the middle of circular-irrigation crop fields.