I profoundly think that currently lame London PG within the sim will also be enhanced and extended likewise sometime soon, now that the new Bing Maps London PG stretches out to Heathrow…
I hope the London city fix they’re planning restores the quality of the area’s PG! Each update currently seems to be sending the sim into reverse!
Thought i’d check out the difference. Generally the quality & colouring is leaps above what we have now. It also seems to use the default Bing LOD system opposed to the ugly one that many of the UK’s use currently.
It’s also greatly expanded with Heathrow, City Airport, Northolt, Fairoaks & Denham now being surrounded by PG. Lots more landmarks & attractions are also covered now. Hopefully Asobo add all this data & it would be great if down the line they could expand to cover the rest of the towns inside the M25 border (or further). It would be great to fly from Elstree, Biggin Hill, Redhill, Thurrock & North Weald surrounded by PG, most of which are within the M25 border.
One thing i did find is that these PG spikes are quite common along the Thames, around reservoirs & other water bodies. Probably a pain to deal with but hopefully they can.
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Thanx for the extensive and painstaking contribution of yours to my London PG findings.
To my surprise, Paris PG, though, which is superbly limited in the sim, is now totally gone in Bing Maps.
IMHO, the scarce Tokyo, London, and Paris photogrammetry coverage must be prioritized to extend with any upcoming CU’s, instead of ‘village’ additions as in the latest France and Texas CU’s.
Dallas and Sao Paulo, which are stubbornly missing in the sim, must also be added first in the list within any CU to come next. Rio, Santiago de Chile, and Buenos Aires could be nice and exotic as well.
Do you have a link to the updated photogrammetry for London, in Maps I can only see Southampton in the UK.
It’s actually not on a link, but just on the default map app of win11… it might need updating it if you haven’t updated it for a while.
So looking forward to the new London update in WU17.
London for me with the Orbx City Landmarks and EGLC and EGLL from iniBuilds really creates a fantastic base of operations for exploring the rest of the UK and Europe.
The London photogrammetry is ok, not terrible but could be better, and it will be in a couple of weeks! 
Personally I live in London and I think it’s the greatest city on earth, and in a couple of weeks it will hopefully have a scenery package in MSFS to match but as you can see it’s certainly not to shabby even now.
Hey Sneaky, also looking forward for this one. I think we waited long enough…hope Tuesday comes soon 
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With the update have you noticed a problem with the Thames where there isn’t enough water in it, and you get land under bridges, looks like the UK is going through a heatwave lol
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Closing topic because the WUXVII has been released.
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