Areas with currently poor ground textures

Yeah one of my biggest gripes with the sim is the poor satellite imagery covering much of the world outside of the US/Europe/Aus/NZ.

I’ve noticed that it’s generally worse in cloudier areas - mountain ranges and dense jungle/forest - while arid/desert regions generally look pretty good.

For example, the northern Andes around that Cuenca - Quito - Bogotá - Medellin corridor (which is a busy and very interesting area to fly in) is pretty rough, while further south into western Bolivia and Chile the imagery is quite good, but it gets spotty again right down the bottom on the western side of Patagonia. Makes sense obviously, and it’s not exactly a simple issue to fix.

Pretty much all of China is unusable but… that’s part of a bigger situation lol. Mountainous parts of SE Asia aren’t great. The Himalayas are actually pretty good in some areas, but if you explore too hard you’ll definitely end up back in blobby autogen land pretty quickly.

A lot of the Middle East is pretty serviceable (lack of clouds probably).

Mountain regions of eastern Africa are a bit sad, especially the big lass herself Kilimanjaro (I think there’s a payware Kilimanjaro out there even lol). Weirdly, there’s some really good consistent imagery in the mountains of southern Africa, around Lesotho as well as over towards the Escarpment and the Cape Fold mountains. It’s one of my favourite GA areas.

I think if the sim had better texture autogen to fill in those missing/cloud damaged areas in a less jarring and ugly way it would help alleviate the issue. But I’m sure that would be a mammoth job and time that’s probably better spent on improving the current scenery system. It’s just the trade off of using satellite imagery I guess.

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