800 foot tall building in Weston Super Mare, UK

Megadyptes7635 · November 25, 2024, 8:26pm

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
There’s an 800 foot tall building in Weston Super Mare in the UK that doesn’t exist IRL. Looks like it’s supposed to be the Cabot Court Hotel Wetherspoons which is not 800 feet tall. I looked at the OSM data and someone put it has 123 levels for this building so that’d be the problem I’m guessing. I’ve edited it down to 3 on OSM.

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:
51.3504, -2.98239

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Completely empty

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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Every time

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Fly to Weston Super Mare just to the west of Bristol Airport EGGD
Be amazed at the new 3rd tallest building in the UK
Profit

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Nope

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And this is what the building looks like IRL, as you can see it’s just a bit shorter

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ShaunFlies · December 12, 2024, 9:56pm

You’re right, the OSM data shows 123 levels (likely someone meant to type 1, 2, 3 instead).

I’ve removed the levels and put a manual height of 14 meters on OSM so hopefully that change will be reflected in OSM soon. If/when that transfers to the sim idk

Megadyptes7635 · December 15, 2024, 8:21pm

How does a bug get ‘logged’ in this place?

Mihaita · February 25, 2025, 11:57am

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
SKY SCRAPER ON UK SOMERSET COAST

Did you experience this issue before you joined the Beta?

YES

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:

WESTON-SUPER-MARE, UK

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

YES

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

ALLWAYS

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Cliffyboy1962 · March 5, 2025, 2:40pm

I just took a pleasure/sightseeing trip from Bristol to Cardiff via the Severn Bridge in a Van’s RV14 and as I was approaching Weston Supermare at 2000ft I noticed a massive tower/tower block rising at least 600 to 800ft tall, rising up from the resort in the region of the Pier. On closer inspection it looked like an office building but tall and fairly thin. It wasn’t one of those scenery spikes like we used to get in FS2020. I looked at Google maps, after the flight, and unsurprisingly, there is no such building. Anybody else seen this?

Mihaita · March 7, 2025, 8:48pm

This is Weston-Super-Mare pier area in MSFS 2020 …all looking good !

…And this is the same place in MSFS 2024…

Presume both sims use Bing maps, so I cannot figure out why this issue appears to happen in MSFS 2024 only !?

Megadyptes7635 · March 21, 2025, 3:55pm

Still there in SU1

Because outside of photogrammetry areas the game uses Open Street Maps (OSM) for its data for buildings. It seems at some point between the release of 2020 and 2024 someone edited that building in OSM with incorrect data (see up thread for details) so we get this giant building in 24.

The error has been corrected in OSM itself but I don’t think Microsobo are continuously updating their OSM data so we have to wait until either the OSM data gets updated in game (if ever) or a dev actually notices this bug report and decides to fix it in game, however long that takes. The fact that the thread has the ‘feedback logged’ tag instead of a ‘bug logged’ tag isn’t very encouraging though. I mean it’s very clearly a bug and not feedback. Oh well, maybe it’ll be fixed in MSFS 2028.

In the meantime, if you’re on PC I’ve made a quick and dirty mod to remove the building. It doesn’t actually replace it with the real pub, just a flat bit of ground there now, but I find that an improvement over giant skyscraper.

https://flightsim.to/file/90236/weston-super-mare-skyscraper-fix

Mihaita · March 21, 2025, 10:16pm

Thank you so much for this fix, great work !

ManicMiner00 · May 26, 2025, 12:49pm

Still there in SU2… Come on Asobo, time to update that OSM data

SnazzyLamp9363 · July 29, 2025, 2:55pm

Problem still there in SU3 Beta !

any chance it will get resolved soon ?

thanks,

Mihaita · July 29, 2025, 3:27pm

Its`s sad to see how little attention to detail is delivered.

Saying that one good community chap has a fix on flightsim.to.

Mihaita · August 5, 2025, 5:43pm

The tower in the screenshot should not be there.

Please fix this.

GBTAW · August 5, 2025, 6:04pm

Link from further up thread, mod created by the topic author:

https://flightsim.to/file/90236/weston-super-mare-skyscraper-fix

Mihaita · August 5, 2025, 6:18pm

Yes…great but only works in MSFS2024. Now with the latest SU16 has been introduced to MSFS2020 as well…and there is no current fix !

TheFalconOne · August 5, 2025, 6:41pm

Hey, our offices are on the top floor and we like the view.

Mathijs

Mihaita · August 16, 2025, 3:53pm

Thank you for making this fix available to 2020 as well with the introduction of this bug with the recent SU16 !

Nemmysim · August 21, 2025, 1:01pm

This probably a silly question but how do I get this working? Do I need to add the files to a specific folder?

Mihaita · September 26, 2025, 10:17am

Yes, you need to add the files to the community folder.

Nemmysim · September 27, 2025, 6:40pm

Thanks. I’ve unzipped the file and it’s in a folder within my community folder but it’s still not working. Anything else I need to do?

Mihaita · September 27, 2025, 9:12pm

No problem. This is how you do it : Unzip the file on your desktop or any other location you may chose, then do not copy that folder to the community folder in the sim as it will not work. Copy only the folder which is inside that folder. Pls let me know if that worked.