Is it me, or are there more ugly autogenerated scenery bits since the latest update? Or am I just unlucky with where I’m flying? I just finished a flight between CYTZ and CYHU, and there were a few ugly patches in the middle.
Nothing changed in that respect. Clear out any cache files you have (both rolling/manual) on patch days. Also doublecheck you have the world updates installed in the marketplace.
Some areas will have lower quality satellite imagery than others.
That issue has been around for a while for me, not just SU8. A patch of generic scenery surrounded by normal MSFS scenery. I’ve had it occur in many locations, but it’s pretty common in Canada. Have wondered if it was because Canada hasn’t had a scenery update yet, or perhaps a streaming error. Have been meaning to take some screenshots and Zendesk it, but haven’t done that yet.
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Thanks, I guess I’ve been unlucky so far then. I hope imagery quality in the sim improves over time, there are some parts of the world that look pretty awful.
Yeah, I would have expected Canada, specially the area between Toronto and Montreal, to have high quality scenery all over.
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Canada (especially southern Ontario and Quebec) is not as good as America, Britain or Europe. Too bad because Toronto and area is the 4th largest market/population in North America (Mexico, NYC, LA, Toronto). 
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During fair weather (summer), I base out of my home airport of CYGK. I can tell you without a doubt that Eastern Ontario is a patchwork of bad ground textures and data in general sprinkled into ok-ish data. The data in this area is 5-10+ years old, low resolution, and just terrible all around. In some cases, you see patches of winter textures in the middle of summer. Most of the town of Gananoque is missing in the sim due to horrible, low res textures that the AI is unable to extract buildings from.
Current Bing Maps imagery for this entire region is very recent and high resolution. Unfortunately, the ancient data set in the sim for this region is ancient and utter garbage.
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Other parts of the world, like Taiwan or Vanautu, also look a lot better on Bing Maps than on the sim.
The dataset they’re using in the sim is probably the same they’ve been using since they started developing the world engine back in 2015 or so. That would fall in line with the quality of the data I see for my area.
It would appear that only areas that are affected by world updates have been updated to the most recent Bing data. Or at least the most recent Bing data that was available at the time they were building it. I’m sure even in the US, some of that may be out of date now.
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You tend to see that happen when the satellite imagery used to initially generate the area had cloud cover in the area where you get this ugly patch. So in other words, what should be there could not be seen due to the clouds in the satellite image obscurring the details.
That sounds plausible tgbushman.
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