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Re:Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments... by Nition on Sunday August 30, 2020 @05:45PM (#24326178)
Where "Google Maps style" 3D buildings and terrain are available, it's used in MSFS. It's just that there are many places without it, where the game only has a 2D satellite map to work with (plus some extra data that's available like number of floors in the buildings). In those cases it uses the AI generation.
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Re:Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments... by IshKebab on Sunday August 30, 2020 @06:10PM (#24326367)
Really? But Bing Maps doesn't seem to have 3D buildings anywhere, and surely they'd have made London a fairly high priority?
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Re:Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments... by Nition on Sunday August 30, 2020 @06:32PM (#24326525)
Yes, here's the full list of cities with photogrammetry 3D instead of AI buildings: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/18/all-341-photorea...

There are 341, but note that London UK is not one of them. Many are in the USA.

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