Lol no, however google is far from perfect either. At least not in the part of the world Iām flying in atm, Kyrgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. Amazing mountain ranges to fly through, marred with bad textures and uneven transitions throughout.
However itās much better than without aerial images, you still get amazing views. The bigger problems are the height mesh data and low detail river polygons. The latter really screw up the beauty underneath and I wish there was a way to turn the water overlays off. You often get these highly detailed rivers with a straight angular blue line over top as the official āriverā. Or beautiful shaped lakes on the areal images with ugly angular water polygon over top covering most of it.
That has nothing to do with Bing, those āriversā look like ā ā ā ā as well on Google maps and thereās a shocking lack off names for mountains and rivers in remote areas. FS2020 opened up my eyes to how far behind digital maps still are in 2021!
Yet improving those aerial images takes time, an immense amount of it. Plus the tops of mountain ranges are often in clouds or very hard to fly over in the first place. Itās disappointing to reach the summit or caldera and see nothing but a blurry mess, our tech level simply isnāt there yet.
Perhaps one day high res satellites become cheap and numerous enough to get high res images from space for every part of Earth. The land area of earth is 510,100,000 square km. Aerial imagery goes down to 3 inch resolution, about 169 pixels per sq meter, yet 1 foot resolution gives great results already, 9 pixels per sq meter.
Here I found a sat image at 50cm resolution (4 million pixels per sq km)
46mb, 11846x9945
To cover the land mass of Earth in that detail would take 17.3 million of those images. In data size itās not even that much, 760 terabytes. Getting all those images to match up, same seasons, time of day, tides, flooding, free of clouds, smog, smoke, etc, is the hard part. (Actually youāll need multiple images from different times of day to get rid of shadows)
Knowing all that, Iām very happy with the current Bing maps coverage.
Btw photogrammetry needs even higher res data from multiple angles, plus getting good shots of shallow water and the ocean floor, reefs etc, another big challenge.