One of the most neglected regions in FS20 is Central & South America. In this part of the MSFS world the clouds have not been removed on the Bing maps making the visuals a hot mess.

 

I just flew from Bogota to Panama City. Everything looked like it was covered in snow - including the Pacific coast of Colombia, heading up the Darian Gap and through to Panama. It really ruins immersion.

 

Will FS24 use updated "cleaned up" Bing imagery? Cant they use AI to get rid of the clouds and fill them with jungle autogen? Wasn't Azure meant to do this?

 

We don’t know yet.

You could check Bing maps and see if there’s less clouds 

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

Hope something happens - the Bing Map used for Australia 2020 is 11 years old

24 minutes ago, jaytee73 said:

Hope something happens - the Bing Map used for Australia 2020 is 11 years old

Yep and even older, some of the Darwin images are 2017 era, as I can see my old car parked in my driveway

3 hours ago, jaytee73 said:

Hope something happens - the Bing Map used for Australia 2020 is 11 years old

 

2 hours ago, jeansy said:

Yep and even older, some of the Darwin images are 2017 era, as I can see my old car parked in my driveway

Are you from the future? 😂

Its quite ridiculous that people like myself are capable of removing these clouds in our ortho imagery for xplane i have built yet Microsoft and Asobo some how cannot.

To make this worse the areas most affected are some of the best places in the world to fly like Alaska and Colombia.

Id even be happy with the over saturated Asobo ortho than cloud covered stuff.

Bizarre they have fixed New Guinea one of the most cloud prevalent ortho locations but not Alaska or Colombia..

 

My Colombia in XP

 

Asobo's version.

 

One more of my hand corrected Colombia and seriously if individuals and devs can do this the only thing stopping Asbob is effort.

MSFS2024 will certainly use more up to date Bing maps and I would imagine that the AI will have been improved in many areas, particularly in removing the clouds.  We will all have to wait until November to be certain though 

It would also be nice to see the blurred areas of scenery in Bing images replaced. The terrain textures of the French naval shipyard near Brest Bretagne look awful in MSFS 2020, and there will be plenty of other areas like that.

My favorite area to fly Alaska has always looked terrible, let's see if they improve  maps. 

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by Aglos77

8 hours ago, DEHowie said:

To make this worse the areas most affected are some of the best places in the world to fly like Alaska and Colombia.

 

5 hours ago, Aglos77 said:

My favorite area to fly Alaska has always looked terrible, let's see if they improve  maps. 

Totally agree with this. I was so excited to download some amazing free bush airplanes (mods of the NX Cub). I watch so many YouTubes of back country flying in Alaska so I was eager to try it in MSFS.

Bitterly bitterly disappointed with Alaska in the sim. A modded FSX with Orbx looks a million times better and XP12 looks better too.

This is one of Americas most massive states, its a bush flying paradise, how did they neglect this place? Its a mess of clouded-over Bing textures and cartoon landscape. If they cant find clean Bing imagery surely they can use textures like FSX did and then put some dense forest autogen trees on top.

Fingers crossed that FS24 gives us an Alaska and South America we want to fly in.

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by ThrottleUp

The vector data in Greenland is also a big disappointment. Very low resolution lake and coastline data, and the vector data for the lakes is offset a considerable distance with respect to the Bing images. It has effectively stopped me from flying to my MK Studios BGSF Kangerlussuaq airport scenery, since I can't bear to see the misaligned lakes and low resolution vector data on approach.

There's probably some things they can't fix due to lack of data.

MSFS major strength is also its major weakness, taking satellite imagery data and converting it to scenery. Good Imagery = good scenery, poor imagery = poor scenery. 

John C.

12 hours ago, DEHowie said:

Its quite ridiculous that people like myself are capable of removing these clouds in our ortho imagery for xplane

Are you doing the whole world?

1 hour ago, Abriael said:

¿Estas haciendo el mundo entero?

Not even Microsoft with all the budget it has, has the whole world created in its sim and if you get out of the wrongly named first world....