Why wont they fix the bridges in the world’s greatest city? The Verrazano, the GW, the Whitestone, etc. This is sad!
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And the ones in Portland,and other places. What a dog’s dinner
Someone would need to come up with a systemic machine-recognizable and automated way to remove the “walls,” some of which were invisible pre 11.6, and now very noticeable. Otherwise, every bridge would need to be edited by hand. Non-trivial task.
I thought that was what Black Shark.AI was meant to do.
Blackshark AI handle the Autogen world mostly from what I understood, not the photogrammetry. Maybe they can help out in solving this though.
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There is a community addon that provides the bridges of Portland.
There are also many locations around the world where community members have built custom bridges to fix the photogrammetry problem.
Check the usual online locations for MFS community addons.
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But recall Blackshark AI’s base premise included data set mostly from direct overhead satellite views to generate structures. There were clues to give relative height, but a bridge’s empty space underneath can’t be discerned by an overhead view. Notably, they do cross-check with oblique views, which is why you see a texture that looks like a sat photo view mapped onto the solid “wall” underneath the bridges, but that isn’t the same as teaching the AI that it’s not a solid wall.
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Got the addon - much better - had missed it!
Yes, and the same around the Seattle area.
I was hoping the USA world update would solve those problems, but apparently it didn’t 
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I agree, the bridges in NewYork City look awful!
Don’t know about everybody else, but I have always had fun flying under bridges. Can’t do that anymore.
I’ve seen some where the bridge reminds me of one of the Cyote’s attempts to catch the road runner, in the old cartoon. It looks like there is space, but it is just painted on. It acts like a brick wall if you try to fly under.
Check out KLGA freeware airport addon it includes some of the area bridges.
That’s not the point. You shouldn’t have to download 3rd party addons to fix core systems.
If you did Ortho4XP in x-plane, you know the problem. If there’s water in the world data, the algorithm does not put a texture, even if there’s a bridge or marina on the satellite image. It’ll just put water, with some fading. There are parameters to include x meters from the shore and use the imagery to create a texture. But this is a lot of work. Actually, I also thought that this is exactly the added value AI could bring to the table here. But since it’s AI, it can learn.
Can someone please tell me how to get the NYC landmark buildings we see in all the screenshots
All I get is generic buildings including Freedom Tower.
Check that you have photogrammetry on.
It’s in options>general>data
What are you TALKING about??? BOSTON is the world’s greatest city!! It’s even called the hub of the world!
