In regard to photogrammetry, we often talked about number of cities or places that have it on Bing vs. Google. However, when I was examining the same area on both platforms, to my surprise (or not), the quality of photogrammetry on Bing is a lot worse, both in texture quality and polygon counts. Thi…

Due to the fact Google is not in Flightsim business we have to live with that. I can’t imagine Microsoft will buy google integration having Bing in the portfolio. And neither the other way around google is giving one of its core technologies to Microsoft. Only with ads at skyscrapers or billboards a…

Hello everybody … Do we have a list of the cities built with photogrammetry in the simulator?

[image] IDVANDER: Do we have a list of the cities built with photogrammetry in the simulator? This has been asked since day 1 basically. And while I am not aware of any “in-game solution” what you can do is open the “Maps” (?) application which comes default with Windows 10 (yes, such an app …

Well, its a matter of investment and market share, the bing maps team is about 10x smaller than the google map team. Google maps have been commercially savvy for several years whilst Microsoft has been pushing for this initiative for a while, with a much smaller budget. Having MSFS as a customer is …

Thank you. Your suggestion is correct. The maps application has the option of displaying a list with cities in 3D.

This is what we talked about [image] Map of all Points of Interest, 3D Cities and Hand-Crafted Airports up tp World Update #19 Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana Tools & Utilities globe_with_meridians Now including World Update #19 Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and Fre…

[image] IDVANDER: Do we have a list of the cities built with photogrammetry in the simulator? Here as well [image] Enjoy : Updated list of handcrafted airports & cities with photogrammetry General Discussion Maybe its just me who does not know how to Google, but I h…

Hi Everyone, Fly at San Diago Int KSAN Airport. You will see many ships docked with large trees growing on them. Here is a photo. [San Diago Int KSAN]

There is nothing wrong with that: the Navy is doing some larger “camouflage exercise”. Or they’re celebrating Xmas, who knows… all very top secret stuff they’re doing…

Lol. Comedy gold! They really do need to tweak the algorithms which place tree’s and foliage.

Can we talk about photogrammetry quality?

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