This has been done in 2020 at certain world updates and I think at or shortly after launch of 2020. It’s the color coded global map showing where the best and worst resolution scenery data is. It’s a useful way of being able to know where to jump to in the world if you want to appreciate the highest quality ground scenery when doing what is going to be one of the most epic aspects in this new iteration - bush plane flying and low and slow vfr.
The team have already clarified how this will be a WIP through the life of the new sim - they will improve it as and when the data becomes available.
Despite the big advances in scenery in 2024, we know there is still going to be quite a contrast in ground detail levels depending on if an area benefits from countryside TIN (like the grand canyon examples we have recently seen) , or where it’s built from lower resolution satellite based imagery (most of the world).
Thanks.
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Hi @doubleflush - don’t forget to vote for your own topic! 
Following up on this. Looking back through the presentation Jorg and Seb did at the Grand Canyon event, some such maps were shown. This one in particular is of interest to me:
As I understood it, this shows the areas covered by the 1,000,000 sqkm they have currently got in as ‘countryside TIN’. In other words the highly detailed areas which have the LIDAR data captured by planes flying over (like the photogrammetry cities, but in rural areas).
Jorg has said they will be adding to this over the life of the sim through updates, with the eventual hope most of the world would be captured this way. This would be amazing.
Please could we have this kind of map shared at a closer scale so we can see in more detail which rural areas are benefitting from the TIN tech at launch?
Thank you!
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Same here. It is so weird they don’t communicate about this. I would like a detailed map…
