[Polls] World Update XI: Canada Discussion

You folks might want to take a look at a parallel thread over here - and my posting describing the difference between Yandex, Google, and Bing imagery of the same area.

Viz.,
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/why-do-we-need-scenery-updates-if-we-use-downloaded-data-anyway/546486/18
 

Spoiler:  The Bing imagery of that area is quite dated and looks like a children’s collage of small pictures pasted together.  However imagery by Yandex and Google is much more recent and looks like reality.

I can understand things being all messed up if they’re basing their photometric imaging on such baseline data.  (Garbage in, garbage out)  If the baseline data is all balled up, there’s no amount of AI that’s going to make it good again.

The $64,000 question is why does Bing have to use such [junk] when it is obvious that much better imagery is available.  If Google and Yandex can afford images that look like reality, why not Bing?

What say ye?

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