BING Map Enhancement Mod for MSFS 2020 | Get the Latest Bing Satellite Imagery 

DISCLAIMER: If you have a monthly limit for internet data, I highly recommend unchecking the "High LOD Enabled" option. The high LOD option tells the server to load larger tiles which means that you will be using a lot more data than you realize. You could end up reaching your monthly data cap within several days if you are not careful which could be very costly. In my personal experience, the high LOD option has never been important because I rarely fly at high altitudes and even if I did, it would be pointless as I would not see much detail of the ground at 30,000 ft anyway.

Honestly, the main difference I see in all of these photos is that the new satellite imagery was taken at a different time of year. There are insane changes in color depending on season which current satellite data often doesn't take into account.

It is NOT generic scenery by default nor is it computer generated nor fake. It is still satellite scenery but may be filtered vs unfiltered making the old appear greener as well. They are merely 2 different versions. Some newer scenery may look worse, in fact. You seem to prefer dry grass. What you show as better buildings are merely contrasted differently by the different satellite data. The newer scenery may not work as well with 3D objects which are still going to be based on the older Bing data. Some areas may be better or worse and is purely subjective. Also, you point to the newer scenery as having more definition when it is merely drier grass, etc. It's going to be purely subjective and some ppl may like it, some not. This mod has been around for quite some time now.

Dude, your videos have been crucial to my enjoyment of this sim. Truly appreciate your guides!

I had to go back and listen again to make sure you said Griffiss in Rome, NY! I was stationed at the Griff 1982-87 with the 49th Fighter Interceptor Squadron working on T-33's! Used to live downtown on S. Jay Street, then in base housing which was torn down years ago. Thanks for the very informative vid. I never knew this was possible!

THanks for posting - High Lod & updated textures are great - a lot more detail and realism. I really like the simple colour/hue/brightness/contrast sliders to get it all looking a lot more realistic en route. Good to take away that greenish-yellow hue of the original textures.

One of your best videos and video subjects! I downloaded this last year and didn’t use it. However, knowing the BING is the same server data stream is a game changer for me and other simmers! Thank you for pointing that out!

Thank you for another extremely helpful instructional video! Your videos over the last few months like DLSS swapper, optimizing settings and so on really added up making MSFS so much more fun. I just flew over areas which I know very well with the latest Bing Satellite Imagery and the difference to the default Bing is really a significant improvement.

Great my flightsim experience wouldn't be half as good with out your help, you've helped so many people around the world, much appreciated 👍🤗

Fantastic! I've long been bothered by the garish, oversaturated colors in MSFS...this will be a gamechanger for sure!

Wow I had no idea this even existed! Been under a rock or something. Great video, will get this thank you. Very nice calm commentary also. I subbed!

This mod is amazing. When I mow my grass I use a lawn striper. The default scenery, my property is horrible looking. With this mod, I can see the stripes on my lawn when I fly over my house. Thanks so much!!

Wow, this really does look significantly better in VR - thank you

Good man for promoting this! I've been using this for about a year and a half.... The developer updates it regularly. Comes highly recommended 😁

Your content is always helpful to me. Thank you!

Best mod for changing the landscape in MSFS, using it since a long while now, always with google maps because they do have the best imagery in my area, it's so much crisper and the colors match the real thing! Can't fly without it, especially when flying low and slow ! Never seen any performance difference with the google tiles, even if the definition is way better and that's not the default server... Thanks for your vid! I'll try again the last bing imagery to see how it's going...

Thank you so much for posting this! The improvement is amazing! The app that does the work seems well built. Great work!

Thanks for this info and tutorial to start this. I'm gonna try this and see how it works out. Judging from your video, it does look a lot better and realistic... Thanks! I just subscribed too!

Thank you for a direct and concise description and guide. I'll be installing and recommending to my friends. Subscription earned.

Wow thanks so much man! That makes a huge difference, i'm still gonna try in my sim but cant wait to see the difference it makes when flying in my hometown. Cheers

NEVER heard of that and downloading it right now, I´m very excited!

Wow did not know about this Mod, I'm going to get this now. Thank you for sharing this, it really looks like a big difference

This worked so well for GA flying around the UK. Thanks so much.

Thank you again for another awesome video! I gave this a try with my helo's and loved it. My favorite airliner of any is just around the corner (MD-11) and can't wait to fly out of the airports with the updated imagery!

Thank you for another incredibly useful video. I have just completed my first flight and the difference is marked!

I just tested the program with my Quest 3, Auto FPS and Virtual Desktop streamer. It works amazing. What a difference.Thanks!! I am a happy pilot.

Thanks for bringing this, much appreciated.

Truly amazing the difference ! Thank you for this video. Looking forward to install it and discover my "real' surroundings ! Jean-michel, France.

Thanks, will definitely give this a try tonight.

Wow, so much crisper in game in mane areas and much more realistic looking in general.

I've been using this for more than a year. Being able to switch between streams on the fly is great.

Waoo. First mod. Looking really good. Didn’t see this video.

Hard to believe how good this is... I have completed a few flights in VR and the difference is remarkable. Another game changer for MSFS

This is great. Just installed to see what it's about and it looks incredible. Love that you find these small niche mods.

Thanks for sharing, this was really interesting to watch. I still haven't played MSFS yet. But I occassionally like to watch videos on the game because it's so technically impressive. I just heard that they are bringing out a new MSFS 2024; so will be interested in seeing what they do with that too.

once i put this video on 2x speed - it was great. thx for posting

Thanks once again, new to me, about to do my first flight with it. Regards Pete

Thanks for this bro! Much appreciated!

I really like your demo. It is well demonstrated and convincing. I'll try for sure. Thank you so much

Amazing add-on, even in VR. I flew over my grandparent's house (in a rural area in the Netherlands) and i always found the default scenery of the surroundings very artificial looking (like artificial grass) but now it's almost like in real life (ok the house itself is still a generated one). Also the adjusting image settings (especially the saturation) helps compensating for the oversaturated image with my VR headset.

Wow! I can't believe the difference this makes. Thank you.

Thanks for the word. I had no idea. I'll have to try it.

Subscribed will be trying this tomorrow!

Outstanding! Thank you. FYI - v7.6.1 was just posted today.

Thanks for this. Very nice. Its one of thoes mods that you didn't think you needed, until you use it. Now I probably will never fly without it running.

I just did a flight From KPHX to KTUS ... all I can say is WOW !!! What Difference this makes ... the only thing I did different from your settings was changing the brightness to -10 instead of -15 ... Thank - You for all the work ya do and the way you describe it in easy terms for us

Just tried the mod in VR at my local airfield/airport of Fairoaks(I have add-on scenery for it; even shows the coffee shop I frequent when I can), in Surrey Sth west of London. EGTF. The difference with this mod, is as you say, amazing. The colours are so much more realistic. The increased clarity in the buildings trees fields etc, is like night & day. Even McLarens building looked as it should(was even able to recognise a couple of McLaren P9’s in the carpark.). So glad your vid came up on my RU-vid recommendations. Thx

wow .thanks .makes a big difference .

Remember the FSX days. Every Carenado aircraft that came out had to be fixed. It was AMAZING how the community repaired overpriced add-ons. 30 major tweaks just to make it worth while hitting that FSX start button. I still use it with my A2a aircraft and several other favorites. Your input reminds me of how Berte Pieke fixed just about everything back then.

Absolute game changer, thanks.

There's a different hue to the colors, but it also looks like images from a different season. And slightly sharper in many places. The emerald green fields look like spring colors, the darker looks like late summer.

I watch your videos all the time and never realized that you were located in Rome, I'm in Syracuse right down the road 😂

Awesome stuff! This is a game changer of a mod 👍

As a long time user of xplane and its ortho using msfs always left me feeling like msfs was an over saturated cartoon. Finally realistic colours in msfs thanks to those doing this! Cool video and an excellent demonstration of how bizarre msfs has looked for years

Thanks, it works great. Did some before and after shots and definitely prefer the over all look of the updated Bing imagery. I'd become quite accustomed to green mountain sides without realizing it, lol. No impact on frame rate as far as can tell.

By golly it works, and it does look pretty good. I had solar put in at beginning of 2023, and I can see the panels and the trench they dug in the new imagery.

its awesome and the detail is the same wherever you fly.🤩

Hey how's it going, it's been a while! Great vid I just reinstalled this mod after 2 years of not using it, my god it has come a long way! Good idea for a follow-up would be a side by side with google maps in different parts of the world..I know a lot of people are interested!

This is a game changer for me, can't thank you enough

Installed the mod last Sunday, but I came across a question that has now been solved by a friend, and indeed, it has taken the Simulator to a higher level, The IslandPilot has not said anything too much. My question was "can I just empty The Rolling and turn it off", afterwards it turns out that the mod takes over that function. It's all great, I'm very happy with it, and it's bizarre that the IslanPilot is the only one that comes up with this in my opinion, I haven't read it anywhere else, thank you.

Thanks! Another great video, who knew?

Subscribed! :) Would be very interesting to see some closeup stuff (helicopter).

Excelent in VR!! Thank You!!

Griffiss, huh? I was on a short vacation in 1968 at 7th Lake near Inlet, NY, before I had to report for a year in Vietnam. I stopped at the end of the runway and saw a cloud of black smoke with a B-52 just ahead of it. It climbed out less than 500 feet above me and as I glanced inside my 1964 Valiant, I noticed all the needles on the gauges bouncing around from the noise. That was something to behold.

ive heard about this addon for a long time and never wanted to mess with my sim, but just watching the download and installation process part of your video, if its not terribly intrusive or sim breaking ill do it

Excellent! Thank you.

So much better! Thank you

Thanks for the vid! What performance hit does using the bing ehhancement and high LOD bring?

Thanks. Seems to work fine!

I have tried this and works well. I get 900 Mbps internet and unlimited data. What I noticed that Bing has not updated the Central Park Towers in NYC, but it looks very nice.

Yesterday I flew the route LSZS (Samedan) to LSZR (St Gallen) without the map enhancements mod I found the area around St Gallen really awful, all unreal colored meadows. Today made the same flight with the map enhancement mod, using the updated Bing maps, and it is indeed a game changed. Completely different look around St Gallen, the whole area looks great now. Great mod, thanks for the info and tips.

MacArthur AP, that's my favorite AP in the world. My first flight that I can remember. 4 years old. Obviously I was the co-pilot and my dad the PIC. Home airport for my childhood. Good choice!

Thanks for posting this and your clear and concise description and instructions. The mod has also (it seems) improved my FPS by about 20%. One question, do you recommend deleting the rolling cache occasionally or frequently or not at all?

Wow thanks again for enhancing MSFS. Everyting looks more realistic. Your like the MSFS Yoda!

Great info and video do it eat any VRAM at all?

hello awesome video thanks so much at around 11min you mention do not open as administrator do you mean the enchanced map application or the msfs?

My first job was flying the survey aircraft taking the high-res images that were supplied for the Bing maps. Satellite images for the general maps and high resolution cameras mounted on aircraft for the very high detail 3D urban data. We flew track after track over towns and cities taking tens of thousand of images which were then overlayed on LIDAR scans.

You are an absolute legend. This is the best mod I have ever seen for MSFS2020...and its FREE....Every sim pilot NEEDS to use this mod...Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

Looks like the updated detail we getting for MSFS 2024.

Fantastique ! Merci Thank you !

This is great! Looks fantastic. 🙂Should I delete the manual cache also?

Ooh! What a nice looking addon! Getting it now. By the way, was that one of my liveries? :)

I am going to try it now, thank you.

Many thanks... Very helpful.

Hello!! Just wondering will this affect performance of the simulator or everything is as per normal?? I ask because you need to run an extra program on top of all the other programs that are running in the background. Looking forward to your response. 😊 Appreciate your work and loving in so far.

This is awesome! I wonder if it is possible, with the Enhancement Mod running, to download a manual cache of the newer imagery?

Wow? thanks! IDK about this tool. Till now

The Apple satellite map is decent for areas where the Bing and Google maps are lacking since it's satellite and not drone photography. They have a new custom maps feature which I haven't tried but I think it lets you decide which maps to use for each region.

This is Great I now have a power plant with cooling towers. Thanks

Excellent!! Tks much!!

this is great thank you

Thanks for bringing this to the tube.. just set it up and it is excellent. So the rolling cache is not used at all?

Been using this for long. Especially useful for places ignored by msfs and those that don't have photogrammetry

I use the filters included in the NVIDIA GForce Experience to desaturate the colors to make everything look more realistic. There is a slight difference between the two but it's not as "Wow" inducing as you're trying to make it out to be. The fliters in NVIDIA GForce Experience will make this look better without going through all of this. Also you have to keep in mind the data being used in MSFS is 5 years old now and the image data will change based upon the time of year it was taken. So what you are calling "bland" is most likely early to mid spring when everything is a LOT greener and the second images are most likely taken in early summer when it is hotter and there is less rain fall. So you have to take all of that into account.

Thank you for your videos, as you really bring lot of usefull tips in your videos. I tested BING maps and it definitelly looks better. The only issue I found, there is a impact to FPS on my system. Its just 1-2FPS without "High LOD Enabled" and like 10FPS or more with it (4K res and RTX 4070Super). Anyway even without HIGH LOD, textures are still better :)

Huge difference.....I thought so far that my MSFS was realistic, but this blows my mind how nice and realistic is....Yes, world is mostly green but there are different shades of green...there are farms now and crystal crisp....

Great! I will try it!❤

Looks amazing for most parts however I'm still getting quite a bit of tiling and some discoloration and purple mountains in some areas when I took off from Oakland California. This is with the Bing map enhancement

Hey! Thanks again for your video ! Definitely the Best technical channel for simmers 🙏🏽 juste few questions for you: Does it takes a better connexion speed than usual ? And does it impact the performances of your sim ? Thanks again mate

Very good video. Is it possible to do a compare (mainly static images) between the Bing NEW and the Google Maps the app offers? that way we can see which one of the two we like better.