With Corona Virus canceling all sanctioned events around the world, opening this back up to discussion would be amazing.
For instance, the DriveWay Series in Austin, Texas - It’s been voted by USAC as the best week night race/crit in the nation several times… Imagine being able to race anyone in the US every Thursday night.
There’s SOOO MUCH data from these races (Strava, .gpx, historical info) that being it seems like this would be a no-brainer. Who cares what the backdrop looks like, just have the course and normal profile, and let the people race!
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Other platforms like RGT let you upload a real world gpx file to create a route. Zwift is behind the ball on this function.
I agree about not having 1000s of courses. I was thinking I would build ‘my’ favorite routes as a private route. I have lots of routes from places I lived previously that I really miss. I’d love to be able to virtually ride them again. Maybe these private routes could be used in the Meetup function.
Also - maybe Zwift could have a ‘submit your route’ page and the route would be chosen as one of the select few if it met certain criteria.
OK - back to dreaming 
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That idea is nothing new, Elite had it in there software in 2010, you could ride GPX tracks with google street view as a overly.
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Well the ability to plan a route on the existing roads is not breaking any barriers… So that could be implemented. The route could be used by leaders so that not everyone needs to have it.
If this isn’t already in place…
For older railroad simulators, you can download free SRTM terrain data from NASA and import it into your program. It automatically gives you your mountains and valleys, hills, plains, etc. Then all you got to do is figure out where your tracks and roads go. I’d settle for just the terrain data a laying in the roads to ride on, but some folks may want to add trees and buildings as well.
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