An innocent typo led to a giant 212-story obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator
Melbourne's giant virtual obelisk. Microsoft Flight Simulator players spotted a giant mountain-high obelisk in Australia this week. While Flight Simulator has done a great job at recreating the real world, this unusually huge structure doesn't exist in real life. Players have now discovered that its existence stems from a simple typo.
University student Nathan Wright made an edit to OpenStreetMap data for part of his degree work last year, adding more than two hundred stories to a building that's actually just two stories. Wright meant to type 2, but instead he typed 212 in the data section for floors. I think it's so funny as it was the first time I was using OpenStreetMap," says Wright in an email to The Verge. I was using it for a university task and had to add data...