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MSFS20 Which projection does Bing Maps use?

simulondo

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Hi
I'm playing a little bit with msfs SDK trying to correct a couple of airstrip without a good aerial photo coverage. When I check my reprojected orthophotos (EPSG4326 - WGS84+Geographic as usual) on top of the Bing Maps in QGis, there is an important displacement, similar to the one that happens when using different projections:

Screenshot 2023-11-09 130728.jpg.png

I know it's possible to reproject my aerial photos to match with Bing maps, but I suspect that the real problem happens when importing these layers into QGis. The QGis base file is configured with EPSG 4326. So, as far I remember, all the layers that I import should be reprojected "on the fly" and match, right? Or is there something I am missing?

It has been a while since the last time I was playing with QGis and the sim and maybe there is something I am missing.

Regards.
 
As far as I know, the MSFS processes orthophotos in the "Mercator Auxiliary Sphere" projection, the code is as Dick already wrote 3857.
The image data is then congruent with Bing image data and the MSFS world:

msfs_ortho_EPSG_3857.jpg
 
Sorry to reply so late. I have been testing other wms services using 3857 and it matchs correctly with Bing. So I suspect I have a problem with the initial service I have been using. To top it off, right now, it doesn't connect so I'll have to wait to proceed with further testing. Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
 
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