Aug 31, 2020 19:00:00

Volunteers create Google Maps-based mods that make the 'unrealistic' Microsoft Flight Simulator more sophisticated

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a flight simulator for Windows PC that allows you to freely fly around in a space that faithfully reproduces the entire earth based on satellite images and ' Bing Maps ' data. However, this Bing Maps data is lacking in realism or has bugs, so many MODs that replace the data with those of Google Maps have appeared by volunteers.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is an environment that faithfully reproduces the real world, is sold, but various bugs have been reported by multiple users because the data of Bing Maps is somewhat difficult. For example, in the following tweet, it was reported that a non-existent skyscraper appeared in Melbourne, Australia while flying in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Microsoft Flight Simulator In A Bizarrely Eldritch, Impossibly Narrow Skyscraper Pierces The Skies Of Melbourne'S North Like A Suburban Australian Version Of Half-Life 2'S Citadel, And I Am -All For It- Pic.Twitter.Com/6AH4xgIAWg

— Alexander Muscat (@alexandermuscat) August 19, 2020

In addition, the River Thames is flooding near the Big Ben in England...

It was pretty messed up because the house was scattered around in the soccer stadium.

There is also

a bug reported that a car was running on the wall of the building , probably because the position data of the road and the building got out of order.

In order to fill such defects of Bing Maps, the movement to 'replace defective map data with Google map data' is flourishing in

Reddit's Microsoft Flight Simulator community , and the MOD created by volunteers is released for free It has been.

For example, the following image replaces the data of Cricket Stadium in Melbourne from Bing Maps to Google Maps. The data from Bing Maps (left) can only be seen as a circular building, but the data from Google Map (right) shows that the grounds of the audience and cricket are reproduced in detail.

The indoor stadium in Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena , seems to be a flat and flat aerial photograph with the data of Bing Maps (left), but the data of Google Map (right) expresses a realistic three-dimensional effect It was

A volunteer mod of Microsoft Flight Simulator has been posted on the following Reddit community:

FS2020Creation
https://www.reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/