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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 will have the entire planet available using data from Bing maps.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/30/20885197/microsoft-flight-...

VBS3 by Bohemia Simulations can import and I believe even live load continual terrain due to mixing real-world data with approximations of trees and whatnot from satellite images...but it's not for the public, military only. The civilian branch of the company is BI who make Arma 3; that supports real-world terrain imports via mods

Ubisoft/Massive Entertainment's "Tom Clancy's The Division" (New York - Brooklyn and Manhattan), and "Tom Clancy's The Division 2" Washington DC both have extensive GIS imported locations, cleaned up with LIDAR and post-processing for trees/vehicles. I know there is a video about Division 2's use of GIS as I remember seeing it, but can't find it at the moment. I think it might be a game developers conf video.

https://wtop.com/entertainment/2019/03/washington-wasteland-...

Came here looking for gaming applications of this. Blender is in my game dev workflow already for terrain generation!

Flight sims, typically.

Especially the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator.