So I thought I’d do a little comparison. Here are 4 pics of the same place - Southampton in England - the only place in the UK to have photogrammetery. The first is Google Maps in 3D, the second is Google Earth, the third is MSFS with photogrammatery ON and the fourth is MSFS with photgrammatery OFF. I know which I prefer and looks most like the real thing.
GOOGLE MAPS 3D:
GOOGLE EARTH:
MSFS PHOTOGRAMMATERY ON:
MSFS PHOTGRAMMATERY OFF:
Going much closer in, you get the effect you are talking about here. Here is one street with PG ON and one with it OFF.
MSFS PHOTGRAMMATERY ON:
MSFS PHOTOGRAMMATERY OFF:
Interestingly I didn’t move the camera between these two screenshots, but it looks like the angles have changed etc. I wonder if the photogrammatery is doing something with the ground height too?
Anyway, up close OFF looks much much sharper and more realistic - but the buildings are not the right ones. For me, it looks much better from above - which I suppose is what was intended after all.
As I said, at least we can choose, and all of it looks miles better than anything I’ve seen before