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Because it costs a lot of time and work to make satellite imagery look good even for a small area (and thats the advantage on ISDGs side ... they concentrate on a small area)! For extended areas (which SimHeaven does), you either have to pay unbelievable amounts of money to others who do this job for you (yes, there are aerial imagery providers who can do that for you - for lots of money), or you just take what is "freely" available. And Simheaven decided to go the free route (where even that rout is not 100% water tight when it comes to licensing rights!) by just plain sourcing Google Maps / Bing Maps data ... and thus his results can only be as good as the source data is (he applies some automatic color correction ... but that can only correct the absolutely worst things ... never fix inconsistency issues). And don't even think about him (yes, he is a one man show) correcting extended areas for us ... because he alone would not manage to do that in his entire lifetime (yes, our planet is big, and thus aerial imagery is very extensive too).

If you search around the forums you will find Chris hinting at ISDG's YMML. It looks spectacular! Found in "What did you fly today?":

Some new pictures from ABSim Coming soon! And it is freeware, once freeware always a freeware.

!!!This topic is not supposed to be an advertisement for the Avroliner Project!!! Some of you might know that there is a pay ware aircraft series existing named "The Avroliner Project". I just wanted to draw your attention to this project, since there has been a major update on the Avro RJ100. It is still in beta status, but the plane is starting to look really great!!! The cockpit will look phenomenal once it's completed. Cabin and exterior are awesome as well!! For all simmers who like to fly regional jets and/or are fans of Bae's Avro series this is a must have!!! Like i mentioned before, it is currently in beta status. That's why the developers need pilots who have flown/are flying the aircraft in real life to make the model even better. You have to pay for the aircraft since it is no freeware, but the money is really worth it!!! If you are interested please visit: https://x-plane.andreasbenjamin.com

Filming the new SkyMAXX Pro v2.1 in X-Plane 10. Flying around Ostrava in the Czech Republic.

"Chris K says:October 7, 2014 at 6:26 amFWIW, We have a new YMML in the works – completely redone from ‘first principles’ with new taxiways and such — so hopefully any self-intersecting beziers and/or inheriting bad taxiway data from the original apt.dat will simply ‘disappear in a puff of logic’ when we push the final out. Andras is working on a new HDMesh for OZLand, so it’s a good time to get this continent all fixed up in prep =)" This was in Ben's Blog the other day, hopefully not too long away!

This is something I came across on Facebook. Looks VERY interesting. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/629786main_FS-103-DFRC.pdf

ya we should, i can see Michael being much more honest then before. and i can assure you that.

It's been here since the 2nd, and I don't think he's getting banned. He made a mistake. He trying to patch up. Give him a chance.