Yes, here is Jorg’s comment in the April 2024 development update stream. His comments confirm there will be a Bing maps update around the time of MSFS 2024 launch for both sims.
[Jorg] So the answer is probably a combination, but I’ll tell you what’s going on. So we just this week got 200 terabytes of new data from Bing. which is what we’re going to launch Flight Sim 2024 with as far as aerials is concerned. Are they newer? Oh yeah, a lot of it. I think in total, this whole thing is 2.2 petabytes and we have 230 or something terabyte that are brand new since we did the last World Update essentially. So how is it going to affect the US? Yeah, I mean, there will be newer textures. That means that the airports that have new you know, additions or retractions or deletions that will be updated and then the automatic system will be run. So there will be new procedural buildings, trees, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So we’re going to and that world is shared. So not I mean, there’s a bunch of features that we sort of saw in the trailer that are that can’t be shared because it’s a different it’s a different version of the engine. But the fundamental big data like the Digital elevation maps and the aerials will be shared between both. So the team have to go in and actually check the airports, make sure that everything still works right. That is going to be pretty massive because the US has over 20,000. But that work is now starting. And you will benefit in 2020 from that as well. Will there be mistakes? No doubt. So that’s what the World Hub is for. And you can help us get it right. But we’ll have a new shiny set of 2023 satellite images.
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