Will there be any way to revert to the old Bing map imagery for 3rd-party scenery projects. Maybe somehow integrated into SDK?
I’m primarily asking about this since my Port Harvey/Neville projects are going to be wreaked by the 2024 Bing images.
I have also noticed some other areas I’d be interested in flying at have many issues. For example, low sun at time of images causing large black shadows. Would be good if 3rd-party developers have option to access old Bing images which way work better in some instances.
AFAIK you can use any imagery you want on your own projects, you don’t even need to use Bing. BUT it won’t blend well with the surroundings, so you need to colorcorrect anyways.
Unfortunately it looks like the normal process of that is missing software for one of the steps, but I’m sure there will be a solution to that.
The bigger issue is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to access the previous Bing images online. In Google maps/earth you can look back on previous versions, but I can’t find a way of doing that with Bing (which will be needed by many projects porting over to new sim).