You cannot consider Asobo/Microsoft purchased the whole package from Vexcel for each country.
For example on Vexcel site the whole France is done at 15-20cm and several portions at 7.5cm. However in the game, only few areas (part of French Alps) are actually using Vexcel data and only the 15-20cm
Have you compared actual in-game 2020 to 2024 of some areas to compare? I am seeing the difference for the places I have checked in Japan and am seeing they have updated aerials. I gave an example, I don’t feel I need to spend any more hours to convince you if its true or not.
An easy way to see if an area is vexcel or not is to check landscape. If it’s rounded and approximate it is not vexcel. I did not see any mountains showing this in Japan so far.
They market Vexcel aerial for countryside if you look at my first post, and photogrammetry for cities.
I don’t challenge there could be a change in Japan as you do need to remember they also improved general mapping with Maxxar. Maybe what you show is that ?
Clearly they also said that Vexcel aerials were released for Japan, but I guess to be consistent with the rest this would be for national parks and natural landscapes… I would not see the benefit of vexcel non photogrammetry for flat areas like cities.
