Everyday Bing presents a beautiful photo. Sometimes the photo is of a beautiful place. So I started to visit those places in Flight Simulator. From time to time I will publish original Bing photo and screenshot from MS Flight Simulator.
Today (2020/12/19) it is Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Sexten Dolomites, Italy
Bing
MSFS
It’s a good idea, that one puzzled me because the elevation mesh in the sim has a really low resolution in that area. It feels like the mesh has less than 90 meters of resolution and therefore most of the summit features are gone. I went there in the sim and had a very hard time figuring out were the picture was taken exactly.
It should be easier to play that game in areas that have received a mesh update…
EDIT 1: about Bing image of the day, it seems that we don’t get the same.
EDIT 2: I tried to guess where and when it was taken and this is my attempt to reproduce the shot in the sim.
Wow, very nice reproduction of the clouds 
Yes, I think the Bing image may depend on region.
A little update on this topic, there is a DEM improvement for Italy available at Flightsim.to
I went back to Tre cime di Laverdo to redo the screenshot and I think the improvement is quite visible, it is not yet a 2 meter resolution mesh but it is better than the previous mesh.
Crater Lake in Oregon
Bing
Flight Simulator (real time, real weather, at 8am PST, probably similar time to the real photo)
this is hilarious. It is like a thread to point out all the flaws of the landscape recreation of MFS (lack of water masks, melted topographical features beyond recognition,…).
It’s not really the recreation that’s at fault as in areas with the right data the sim is capable of producing views that are very similar to real life. It doesn’t in most of these areas because:
This thread is partly about comparison and partly about challenge to find those places.
And yes it’s true. This thread shows that some places has better resolution and some worse. I think it’s similar to cell phone coverage. Uninhabited places gets lower coverage.
Nice shots. Shows where 3rd party devs like Orbx can spruce things up quite a bit! Especially some of the beautiful lesser known spots! It be a dream to see some of the spots, like Le Morne Brabant, look more like that wonderful shot!
Here’s a funny one I found tonight, chasing vulcano’s… this is Ball’s Pyramid in the pacific, east of Australia… Bing has never been there 
or altitude can’t be measured. Devil’s tower was also handcrafted, maybe a nice Blender project to put up (“extrude”) this spectactular rock ? This is how it looks,
fly over you see this
I could land on it
Eibsee lake, Bavaria, Germany
However, I found it covered in snow and ice.
No nice blue water, but I could land on it.
Unfortunately, takeoff was not successful 
Would be a good future world update for Asobo.
I’ve thought that once they run out of countries that are popular enough to justify a single country world update it might be an idea to focus instead on things such as biomes, for example a polar world update that comes alongside improved/added rendering of things like sea-ice and aurora
Really agree… nature landscapes are a big strength of MSFS20 ! Sometimes it needs just a retouch… Aurora Borealis is also on my wishlist… if Asobo can do a rainbow, it should be possible.
I’d love to do a flight to view aurora, an erupting volcano, a geyser, iceberg breaking up, polar bears and penguins would be nice
Have you ever been to Norway ? Try a water plane… from afar the water is not always correct, but when you land on it…