According to Microsoft Flight Simulator, there's a terrifying monolith in Australia, Buckingham Palace is just an office buil♌ding, and Greenland reaches into outer space.
If you were to fly around in North Melbourne in real life, you'd be flying over sleepy suburban neighborhoods. If you were to fly over North Melbourne in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft Flight Simulator, you'd get a glimpse of a terrifying alternate universe where an alien civilization has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:planted a spire that♛ 🦩reaches high into the sky, its purpose as inscrutable as its origins.
But it turns out, this enormous black tower is less about Microsoft building a game that can pee🔯r into alternate dimensions and m𒐪ore due to some random dude's typo.
tells the story after pics of the narrow skyscraper started making the rounds on social media. To generate maps, MS Flight Simulator uses Bing Maps, which in turn gets its data from OpenStreetMap, an open-sourced free w💖orld map wiki.
About a year ago, OpenStreetMap user "nathanwright120" made an edit that indicated a building in Melbourne had 212 floors instead of just two. It was just a typo and it has since been corrected, but not before Bing Maps scraped that typo to use in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
The end result is a narrow suburban building th♏at’s been stretched to 212 floors. That makes🍬 it about 30% taller than the tallest building in the world. .
It’s also not alone. . More might be out t🐬here just waiting to be discovered.
And terrifying monoliths aren't the only weird interaction between Microsoft Flight Simulator's AI-g♈enerated landscape and real-world map data. The AI does the best it can with the images it's provided, but because those images are often from satellites, they don't generally provide a look at a building's sides. This has resulted in Buckingham Palace .
There are other weird errors too, like this .
We’re sure that Microsoft is eventually going to fix these errors, but in the meantime, MS Flight Simulator is a weird place.
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