I would love an update for India, it was very interesting place to explore. I spend about a week flying around India and surroundings.
Varanasi screams for the photogrammetry treatment, should be at the top of the list. I follow my trip along on Google Maps, hence on the RL pictures included. The cities indeed look like American cities no matter where you are. No point in getting too close.
It could be worse, most of central China doesn’t even have aerial data…
Adding landmarks without proper aerial data doesn’t really work anyway. It creates this nasty contrast, for example the Konark Sun Temple
There’s plenty room for improvement everywhere, for example Bagan
with one (out of 2200) temple modeled in game
The real thing
Photogrammetry has issues as well, trees usually look pretty bad. It’s the only option though. Modelling 2200 temples and getting the sim to run with 2200 separate custom objects…
Photogrammetry should work very well for Varanasi and other cities. But firstly, improved, more localized, variation in houses and vegetation will help a lot. The same trees everywhere is just as immersion breaking as the same houses everywhere.