Many of the Bing aerials are between 5-6 years old or more, but that will change over time. There are no railroad bridges yet (outside of photogrammetry), just as there are no cell towers, identifiable churches, or water towers yet outside of photogrammetry coverage either. I say "yet", because those are all things that Asobo do still want to add and plan to add - this extends down to even adding at some point things like migratory bird patterns depending on the region of the world and time of the year/seasons. As I mentioned before, they are looking at continuing to update and add onto the sim with monthly free updates for years to come (they have often spoken of a 10-year, or more, post-launch continued development).
There will be free World Updates released every 2-3 months (it looks like we will get the first one already in September, based on the development roadmap), which will focus on one individual region of the world at a time, and all of the Bing aerials/data will be updated in the sim for that region. More things will be adjusted/fixed in that region's scenery, more hand-crafted airports will be added in that region, more hand-modeled points of interest will be added in that region (churches, castles, lighthouses, unique bridges, buildings, and other landmarks), and there will be more landing challenges and missions introduced with each regional update to bring a focus on flying in that particular location in the world.
If there is a game-breaking bug, significant graphics problems, or you just want to provide feedback on some scenery issues (maybe more than just a misplaced tree, though), you can do so by filing a report here:
https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
It will be marked "Solved" once the report is filed through their system, but it doesn't mean it is or will be solved in the sim.
Bing is always getting new aerials injected into the sim, but Asobo has no way of knowing exactly where any of those updated aerials are - it could be a 40x40 mile section out in the middle of some desert, for instance. The Asobo developers and their software programs can update the whole of the world with the latest Bing data in the course of only two weeks, but they would rather do it regionally, with a much more meaningful update every 2-3 months, than force us to download a huge update every two weeks.
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