Can across this when on a Bing Map // looks pretty good to me ..
Probably not suitable for MSFS, but it does show what Bing is capable of ..
Click on the Plane - Aerial Flyover
Maybe by MSFS 2030 ?
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A footage from a drone flying over a specific place?
Or am I missing something?
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No – but one day, maybe this is what we can expect a Consumer Flight Simulator will look like … (cars on the streets instead of trees !! )
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The link shows me a map of my hometown and restaurant tips on the left.
Propably usefeul I guess ? what does it have to do with MSFS ?
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I have no such airplane on bing indeed.
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I’m waiting for the Flight Simulator photogrammetry to get this good:
FS2050 maybe.
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If you compare FSX (and P3D graphics which were practically same tech) to MSFS you will realise that it won’t be 2050, it will be much sooner.
All it will take is a bit more CPU/GPU power and a few ambitious minds with commitment to excellence, and it will happen.
That was incredible. All looked like one single take although the stadium being empty early and then full shows it wasn’t. Absolutely seamless though.
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I’m just waiting for the scenery – looking at that video, it would seem my flying skill are already there !!! ( 
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Weird, in the UK that URL just seems to redirect to the Bing regular search page. I’m on iPhone so maybe that is the reason but I don’t think so.
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No matter above what location I am there is never a fly-over option available.
But it looks good, the zoom is not as deep as Google Maps but the satellite material looks very sharp and high quality.
With some machine AI-learning-sharpening this data can easily be enhanced to very sharp 1x1 meter sized ground tiles for the fields and houses, perfect for flight simulation yes 
Try BALTIMORE, Maryland, USA .. That is one area that works for me …
The car I sold 3 years ago is still sitting in my driveway.
Haha. Didn’t you know that cars you built up a personal attachment to have a homing instinct after you get rid of them? You must have been asleep at the time she returned
lol According to Google, MY car, that my ex-wife got in the Divorce, is still sitting in her parents driveway … and that was a lot more than 3 years ago ..
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zoom in on the map and the icon with the plane appears
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That doesn’t look like drone footage though. It still looks photgram, but next gen to what we can have with the current HW in a sim
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This post is hilarious 
Aren’t some of you guys aware that you’re marveling at… actual drone real video footage that has zero novelty in 2022?!? All talking about LOD, sharpness of textures and whatnot?? 
Go find some other City Flyover, like around L.A for example, and you can see right away this is just some drone video footage. 
Hint: Even mid-tier non-professional drones, by principle, produces those extremely stable video recordings that ends up having that “CGI”-like quality to them (or side effect, might I’d sometime say…). That plus the fact they’re so cheap (relatively speaking) is also why, for example, they’re also so overused in the movie industry whereas before, you’d have to rent an helicopter, some pilot and put a costly and cumbersomely stabilized camera to do aerial shots like these.
The fact all those flyovers are just videos is also a giveaway. Had Microsoft had such an incredible photogrammetry and rendering technology, you’d think they wouldn’t do just half a minute videos out of it
lol, that or she left a trail of bread crumbs (more likely leaking oil).