I fly out of the Hood River, Oregon airport (4S2). In my area all of the roads are green. If you fly a drone down to the pavement, it is pavement, but it’s green. Searching this forum reveals that this has been a known issue since MFSF-2020 came out. Considering the visual quality of this sim, having green roads certainly does not fit the visual experience otherwise provided. This issue is making my “sight seeing” videos laughable (it ruins the “wow factor”).
In that there are vehicles driving on the roads, and a closeup of the road shows it to be pavement, it’s clear the sim knows it’s a road. So why can’t it be colored a motley dark gray? This seems like it is a simple fix. Yet 15 months later it’s still there. So has this issue never been reported via Zendesk? Does Asobo not have it on their list of bugs to fix? What’s the holdup on this, and is there an ETA for resolution?
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You do realize they rendered the world? Most parts are excellent.
Stop and consider the size of the planet for a moment. That’s the hold up.
Edit: Most big games have a play area of approximately 25km². Skyrim is 15km².
Earth, and the area covered in this game, is 510,000km² < That’s your hold up.
I agree that many major roadways are too green.
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Maybe the roads are just moldy from all the rain in the Northwest…… i’ll show myself out 
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So you are saying every road needs to be adjusted individually? Really? The sim code can’t just say “Hey, this is a road – make it dark gray pavement”. It’s already determined it’s a road, made it pavement, and put vehicles on it. It can’t just stop putting green over it? This has to be done manually all over the world? According to a plethora of other posts on this subject, the sim puts green over everything that is at the ground map level/layer (supposedly to make it look better). If this fix can’t be done programmatically they need to hire me. I’m a retired 80 year old ex programmer (for 30+ years). Perhaps Asobo needs to get some of us old-timers to educate their 20-something programmers? Just sayin’. 
P.S re: Google Map suggestion. Are you sure the Google Maps mod will fix this? If the sim is broadcasting green over everything, it may still do it on the Google Maps. I’m hesitant to go that route (every addon/mod is a potential problem) when a simple “make roads gray” set of code is the obvious solution.
Also, it’s clear from some of the responses that my question on this issue has made some folks unhappy. I feel really bad about that. Please accept my apology for ruining your day. You have convinced me to not ask questions here any more. 
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I am not sure that all roads are green in the sim or in real life. I know of red, white, black, blue and others in real life so to get them all the correct colour would not be easy.
Don’t do that, there are always a few trolls.
Most folks that post here do get their answers, and there are plenty of knowledgeable folks here that like to help out.
The google map issue is a touchy one since Bing, as you no doubt know, is an MS product.
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I agree with TheSevenflyer
