More specifically, the world map that you see in Microsoft Flight Simulator while flying a plane over a specific region is powered by Bing Maps.

There are 341 fully modeled cities in Microsoft Flight Simulator, and that's a significant achievement -- a genuine leap forward compared with anything any simulator has tried to do before.

Developers have published the August 20 developer update for Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is the first since the game launched on the 18th.

The obvious implication is that as Bing Maps data gets better, so too will the look of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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