All the bing maps data for ground textures in New Zealand updated today to newer imagery which looked better but also broke all the scenery mods I’ve made. The game crashes while editing a runway, I re boot the game and the bing maps ground textures have reverted to what they were yesterday??? I can’t do any work
I’m going through the same thing. Yesterday the central zone of Chile was updated to the latest Bing textures and it looked incredible. Today I wanted to fly to take some photos and everything was back as before.
Why Asobo, why 
maybe it was a temporary fix to the problems with the bing server
Did you get any screenshots of the new stuff mate? Looks like it has all reverted back to the original satellite data as of today (1st September).
I wish I’d gotten some screenshots. It looked amazing before reverted. Only issue is it broke most of my sceneries cus the ground textures had moved a bit
I updated like 5 of my airports to suit the new textures then it reverted …
That’s a real pain- good to know that the updated data exists and hopefully we’ll see it pushed onto the server again in the future, but a real pain for you having to match your 3D scenery to different ground positions. All the stuff you’ve been putting out lately has been greatly appreciated by the community over lock down!
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This was so incredibly annoying. The map data for Tauranga, New Zealand is about 6-8 years old. My whole suburb is dirt. Yesterday it magically updated to about 12 months ago data. It was awesome. You could tell the auto generated buildings had maybe part processed. Today it’s back to the old data. Super annoying knowing it’s all there ready to go!
At a guess I would say this is related to the Bing maps not loading issue we had over the weekend. Perhaps they had to revert to back up servers with the old data, or something like, that until they fix the issue.
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I hope so. It was soo disappointing flying over the old maps again haha.
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Yeah the weird thing is the data was newer. Sucks I hope they put it back at some point. The data around my home town is like 8 years old and suddenly updated I got a bit excited
Is the newer imagery still present on Bing Maps? My guess is that they could have temporarily swapped to the standard Bing database due to the recent online streaming problems.
Nah the newer imagery is gone back to what it was a few days ago 
Are you talking about the in-game rendition or the Bing Maps app/viewer specifically? The two databases have many differences when it comes to the imagery.
In game ground textures
I was talking about the imagery that you can see in the Bing Maps app or online viewer. Usually, new imagery is updated on Bing Maps first (for example, the Caribbean which is not in-game yet, and Germany/Austria/Switzerland which is coming with the DACH World Update), because for the simulator it has to be processed by Blackshark.ai for accurate autogen, and then the team have to do colour correction, cloud artifact removal and water masks.
If the Bing Maps viewer still has the new imagery, then it means that because the simulator’s database was experiencing streaming problems, they swapped to the Bing Maps database for a day or two. You can expect this new imagery to come to the simulator with an Oceania World Update or something.
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I see thanks mate
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I just realized that the images of bing maps (the app) also returned to the old ones. So
weird
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Bing maps data is the new one for me. Disappointing its so out of date. NZ needs an update.
apparently no one else noticed this and it goes unnoticed 