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hesicong edited this page Nov 24, 2021 · 14 revisions

Welcome to MSFS2020 Google Map replacement

Before you use the software, please understand the following. If you don't understand or not accept it, you should not use this mod.

How this mod works

This mod hijack the bing map traffic from MSFS2020 and returns google images back to MSFS2020. It will change the hosts file, when running the mod and returns it back.

Installation

  • Download the zip file from release page, unzip the folder into D:\msfs2020-google-map (you can use other folder). NOT the community folder.
  • Right click the Run.bat to run as Administrator
  • Click the "Run" button to run the mod
  • Start MSFS2020, you may experience longer loading time sometimes, please be patient (if you it hangs for a long time, please try run MSFS2020 Before this mod)
  • Setup DATA in "General Options" as

All Data Connection set to "ON"

Rolling cache off, click "Delete rolling cache file" once to clear previous cache

  • Enjoy
  • Close MSFS2020
  • Click "Stop" button to stop the mod (IMPORTANT: if you don't click it, the next time you start MSFS2020 will cause issue. But don't worry if you didn't click it, you can start it again and stop it to restore your hosts files)
  • Close the app

If you still not sure, please watch the videos here:

Uninstallation

This mod don't need any uninstall. Please every time press the "Stop" button before you exit it, so the mod can restore the hosts file.

If you experience issues like MSFS2020 saying "Low bandwidth" issue, it is caused by the two entries in "hosts" file not removed. Please remove the two lines mentioned in below.

Impact to your system

Man in the middle attack

Yes, the full mechanize is hijack the bing map, usually it is called Man in the middle attack. Don't worry about it because it only hijack the bing map data. Other apps are not affected.

Hosts changes

This mod will change your hosts file (C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) to place these entries inside:

127.0.0.1 kh.ssl.ak.tiles.virtualearth.net
127.0.0.1 khstorelive.azureedge.net

So that the traffic to these servers will redirect to the mod to give you google map. If you have trouble after exit the mod, please check this file and delete these two lines.

Certificate issue

You will see a pop up window saying untrusted SSL warning, that is because to provide fake https needs a certificate. I can't make a real certificate, so had to use a self signed certificate, which means it is untrusted.

In 99.99% cases, it is safe. The risk is installation a untrusted SSL certificate in your system will have security impact if someone also use the same certificate to hijack your traffic.

I can't make it work

First check out the faq page: https://github.com/derekhe/msfs2020-google-map/wiki/Welcome If still, please raise an issue.

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