As of 2023 the default scenery over the world has considerably been improved.
However some really important landmarks when going VFR are still missing such as water towers, radiocommunication towers, nuclear powerplants,…
This seems a bit weird considering we even have big electricity pylons across the fields sometimes.
For now water towers only show as tiny circular buildings and radiocom towers do not appear at all for example.
Some other simulators such as Xplane found a way to solve this problem.
Wouldn’t it be possible to use the same system which identifies churches to adapt it to these types of landmarks ?
With the upcoming scenery gateway, coming 202x, hopefully that could put paid to that. Instead of submitted to flightsim.to, you submit to the gateway. Once approved, everyone gets it. That is if it could be used for anything more than hand tweaked airports.
Yes, moreover it is not yet possible to add custom buildings.
We could use generic water towers, chimneys,… but for now there aren’t any models of that in the game so it would have to be custom buildings
It seems that some 3rd party devs just released something like that on the marketplace but it does not take away the fact that it should be in the base game : /
Yesterday I was flying over Saint Nazaire, France, and discovered some chimneys which had been rendered as some appartement buildings.
This makes me believe even more that this feature is possible with the auto gen.
So I just discovered one generated water tower near Bordeaux, France.
Probably one of the devs who wanted to make the area more realistic even if it was not in the photogrametry area
