I didn’t think I would have to see it again.” “I was using it for a university task and had to add data for class. “I think it’s so funny as it was the first time I was using OpenStreetMap,” said Wright in an email correspondence with The Verge. Perhaps one of the funniest interactions with this Microsoft Flight Simulator glitch is the challenge of trying to land on Melbourne's 212-story obelisk. University student Nathan Wright was working on data entry in an app known as OpenStreetMap, in which for a 2-story house, he accidentally entered “212.” The data from OpenStreetMap somehow made its way to Bing Maps where it was used by Asobo Studios in the real-world translation data to Microsoft Flight Simulator. Apparently, the reason for this hilariously out-of-place structure comes from a typo. It’s impossible to miss, being a 212-story tower in the middle of a city where no other structure even comes close in size.

Players recently noticed the curious tower in Microsoft Flight Simulator on trips through Melbourne in the game. Unusually, in this instance, it also created quite an interesting sight in the game in the form of a 212-story obelisk of a skyscraper towering over Melbourne, Australia. The world’s a pretty big place after all and Bing Maps and Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing couldn’t do it all on their own, which is where crowdsourced data comes into play. The sheer amount of data used in the real-world mapping of Microsoft Flight Simulator is vast and massive.

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