Comment on Microsoft Flight Sim players have the world at their fingertips; now they want a time machine, too
maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 months ago
TL;DR:
Microsoft/Asobo is responding to the community asking for historical weather conditions instead of only now-current ones, they say it’s very hard to impossible to do it due to a lack of data and existing data being hard to get into the game.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
“Lack of data” seems a very strange reason considering we have climate data going back over 100 years for most of the world and meteorological data going back at least a few decades.
falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
For a flying sim, you probably want “weather” data, not “climate” data. Like on this particular date, time, and location, data for the wind direction, rain, cloud formation, temperature, etc. That data would be humongous.