I can navigate around my area by following the roads and the river. Sure I could do that as well in FSX with add-on high detail sat imagery but now it’s standard with auto generated trees and buildings added on top.
But true, so much is still missing. My neighborhood doesn’t look like the real thing at all. The houses are completely different. My house even changed into a completely different house after an update. The river has hills in it, the train tracks and high train bridge over the river are completely missing, as well as the dam and low waterfall. The other bridges don’t look like the real thing and other prominent landmarks are missing as well. Churches, cell phone towers, radio masts for example.
But I can take off from my local airport (Brantford, Canada) and fly to my house (or the location of it) vfr no issues. Photogrammetry will improve it but that’s a time consuming process not available in most places. Plus that has issues as well.
For example Hamilton
Bridges are problematic no matter where plus that flying traffic is pretty distracting
And Burlington peer
PG works well for big buildings, makes a mess on smaller things and non solid objects. Trees look pretty bad with PG data.
It will get better, this is the first time PG data is used in a sim afaik. Better capturing, better optimization, we’re just at the start and its pretty amazing how well it can work under the right circumstances.
For now it’s a sim of extremes, going from
to
At least you have good sat coverage, most of China and huge parts of Russia, Africa (above) don’t.