John Doe wrote:
I guess this is asking too much, but I really do not understand why
Microsoft did not include a few main roads in my big city. I do not see any
roads anywhere yet.

So, I ask. How about FSgenesis? Is there a demo/shareware/freeware/anyware
scenery which shows roads and highways?

Lastly. Is the lack of roads and highways due to performance concerns?
Otherwise, I just do not understand why they are missing.

I am talking not only about roads and highways being there, but also about
them being almost well defined as runways in airports.

Thanks in advance.

I guess that it's not just the performance issue, but rather the fact
that MS didn't want to spend too much time on anything out side the
airports (apart from major landmarks). With roadways constantly changing
it would be dificult to keep up to date during the games developement.
AFIK it's just the interstates and expressways in the US or motorways in
the UK that are shown. MS have provided the ability for third party
scenery addons for individual areas which saves them alot of work. A
equivilent complaint amongst FS users is the lack of decent buildings in
the larger towns, but if MS had spent the time doing that for every
large city and town in the world (or even in the US) then we would only
be seeing FS2000 now.

About the best you can do on this is to try to find a VFR scenery
package for the areas that you want. These addons usually use aerial
photos for the ground textures and should theoretically have every land
feature ie. not only roads but rivers wooded areas, housing estates etc.
In my experience these are usually low resolution to keep the frame
rates from dropping to a slide show. But my pc is not that fast. Anyone
have any better experience with fast pc and good graphics card?
Anyway you can usually make out enough to navigate using real life charts.
Good luck.