Freitag, 28. August 2020

Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s missing monuments with Google Maps

A screenshot from Microsoft Flight Sim showing a plane flying over a stadium - but a detailed one that has been modded in using Google Maps data

Poor Bing Maps. Microsoft Flight Simulator‘s usage of the mapping services data is so bloody awe-inspiring that any errors or gaps in the data stand out like giant, monolithic thumbs. It is missing some major landmarks, where the autogen tech has swapped out famous stadia and shiny palaces with bizarre, brutalist replacements. And the slightly humiliating solution the community has come up with is to use Google Maps to fill in the gaps.

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