I thought this was using up to date Bing maps?

So my house which is part of a 4yr old development appears as farm land in the game. If I check my house on Bing maps it is there and I can even see our cars on the driveway. A little disappointed that the game isn’t using up to date Bing map data.

I’m in the UK btw. And this aside, wow what a game!!

Depends on when the data was collected for Bing maps, the developers have said they will be doing rolling updates for terrain which requires re-compiling to be included into the game.

It will appear as soon as they re-pass the area.
As an FYI, I live on an old RAF base which has been recently developed, the new houses and streets appear on Bing maps but not in FS :wink:

Ah okay I thought I’d read they were using data that was updated every 28 days, not sure where I got that from :man_facepalming:t2::joy: Thats good to know, cheers!

It’s not a direct stream from Bing Maps itself. The way things actually work is 2D map data is run through an algorithm developed by Blackshark.ai which takes the data and then converts it to a 3D mapped world we see in the game. The mapped version is what is streamed to players. I think they maybe launched with an older set of map data because they knew it was well-tested.

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charts are updated every 28 days.. but they arent using charts, they are using images

yea thats my understanding, and it takes like 3 days to be processed by supercomputer, so its not something they do constantly.