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Where to get the "Bing" version of Google Maps Enhancement?

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Has anyone found a good color combo/setting for the most realistic colors? I know it depends and varies a bit but any suggestion?

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  • Noel, Sorry for responding late, here are the three important things that are easy to do. You can use photogrammetry off or on. When you use this software always start it before MSFS and lea

  • planechaser
    planechaser

    Just tried this mod for the first time  Using new Bing maps and high LOD Tried it out and seems like i have maybe have stumbled into the MSFS 2024 beta.. Flew over the Canadian Rockies

  • St Mawgan
    St Mawgan

    Bing Latest is pretty amazing and much better than Google Maps. It does feel like an MS2024 preview. 

35 minutes ago, iFlySimX said:

Has anyone found a good color combo/setting for the most realistic colors? I know it depends and varies a bit but any suggestion?

My settings just a few replies back …

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49 minutes ago, iFlySimX said:

Has anyone found a good color combo/setting for the most realistic colors? I know it depends and varies a bit but any suggestion?

Play only with -15 brightness and avoid playing with different colors and contrasts

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Currently enroute from ESGG to ESSA, and at least around ESGG, Bing (latest) is clearly worse than MSFS default with tons of clouds baked into the textures and huge colour variations all over. 

Greetings, Chris

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Thanks for the link.  My Host file is missing.  The sample host file is there but not the host file.

How can I get it?

Can you share a screenshot of your folder? What path are you checking in? Also, ideally show a screenshot of the folder settings in case you have the 'Hide Protected Operating System Files' option enabled. Once it's been confirmed it is truly missing, it can simply be recreated manually.

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3 hours ago, Baber20 said:

Ok so I gave this a try today and I am absolutely blown away by the quality of bing maps latest. Looks like a different sim. Makes me wonder why asobo have not incorporated the latest data into the SIM yet ? 


I think it'll be used for MSFS 2024 and then also made available for 2020 later maybe? Per the last Q&A in April (and before) MS/Asobo have said they're both looking to keep updating to use the latest Bing data as well as feed back improvement to Bing due to MSFS (such as the work around water masks fixup, etc).

For example these specific answers:

  • On use of latest of Bing data
    • excerpt: "So we just this week got 200 terabytes of new data from Bing. which is what we’re going to launch Flight Sim 2024 with as far as aerials is concerned. Are they newer? Oh yeah, a lot of it. I think in total, this whole thing is 2.2 petabytes and we have 230 or something terabyte that are brand new since we did the last World Update essentially."
  • On feeding back water mask improvements to Bing
     

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32 minutes ago, AnkH said:

Currently enroute from ESGG to ESSA, and at least around ESGG, Bing (latest) is clearly worse than MSFS default with tons of clouds baked into the textures and huge colour variations all over. 

Several tiles with different colors I saw too when flying over the Netherlands.

At this moment I am in my flight from Amsterdam to Rome and there are many clouds so I cannot see how the textures look. 
 

But I will do the same flight later this week at clear weather to check.

It might be that the default tiles are older but have clouds removed …

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Just now, GSalden said:

It might be that the default tiles are older but have clouds removed …

If I am not mistaken, this is exactly the case. At least in regions where WU took place. Just landed in ESSA, around Stockholm, the Bing (latest) looked again faboulous. So it is a mixed bag, as it is for the default textures and Google. No surprise, sometimes default is better, sometimes Bing (latest) is better, sometimes Google. Sadly hard to know in advance unless you fly in a region you already know. Switzerland for example is anyway only acceptable with this tool, as it has huge tile popping issues in default.

Greetings, Chris

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36 minutes ago, AnkH said:

Currently enroute from ESGG to ESSA, and at least around ESGG, Bing (latest) is clearly worse than MSFS default with tons of clouds baked into the textures and huge colour variations all over. 

It's because you have photogrammetry "ON" It's the same problem with MSFS 2020 by default.

It's the same problem with MSFS 2020 by default

41 minutes ago, AnkH said:

Currently enroute from ESGG to ESSA, and at least around ESGG, Bing (latest) is clearly worse than MSFS default with tons of clouds baked into the textures and huge colour variations all over. 

Photogrammetry "ON"

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Photogrammetry "OFF"

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19 minutes ago, filou said:

It's because you have photogrammetry "ON" It's the same problem with MSFS 2020 by default.

It's the same problem with MSFS 2020 by default

I do not have that many clouds baked into the ground textures using default textures. Why should it have anything to do with PG? It is the textures used. I am not talking about tile popping...

Greetings, Chris

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20 minutes ago, filou said:

It's because you have photogrammetry "ON" It's the same problem with MSFS 2020 by default.

It's the same problem with MSFS 2020 by default

Never seen clouds baked in default terrain tiles. I mainly fly. In Europe so that might be it..

Currently at 15.000ft and Latest Bing + High LOD looks incredible…

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2 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Never seen clouds baked in default terrain tiles. I mainly fly. In Europe so that might be it..

Currently at 15.000ft and Latest Bing + High LOD looks incredible…

I'm not talking about clouds but color variations.

1 hour ago, Donka said:

Can you share a screenshot of your folder? What path are you checking in? Also, ideally show a screenshot of the folder settings in case you have the 'Hide Protected Operating System Files' option enabled. Once it's been confirmed it is truly missing, it can simply be recreated manually.

Been through all that and I created a file manually using the sample.  I just don't know what info to add to the sample and also what extension to use.

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