No terrain in the far north/south

[turtlebiscut]

I’ve noticed that all airports at a latitude greater than 60 degrees are at an altitude of 0 feet, and upon further investigation, there’s no mountains or anything really. Is there something wrong with my game, or is there just no terrain up there yet?

[Justin0623]

Hello

There currently is no topographical data. You can see similar things in Canada, Alaska, Sweden, Russia and so on… ~ via Seb

[turtlebiscut]

Ah that’s disappointing. Thanks for the quick reply!

[schyllberg]

Laura explained some more about it here:

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We have flat section in Alaska because the dataset we use (SRTM) doesn’t have anything above and below 60 degrees of latitude. There are other datasets with those parts of the world, unfortunately, they come with the downside of having underwater elevation, which doesn’t make things easier since we need to find out where the oceans are and zero the elevation… The bottom line is, for most features, if it’s not done yet, it’s either because it’s hard and there’s things that are not that obvious…

[Starley]

You can see where we have topography in this post:

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Hello! The reason why it doesn’t have mountains is because there’s no topography above the 60th parallel north (also below the 60th parallel south, known as +60/-60 latitude). You can also see this in Sweden or Norway. To get a better idea: [latitudes] Everything between +60 and -60 latitude does have topography. Credits: http://colomb.christopherbathum.co/map-with-latitude/