RMaps previously provided free satellite imagery, and any geo-location could be shared from OSMand to RMaps, to quickly show a satellite overview. (Tiles from ARCGIS IIRC)

What is the current state of satellite imagery in fdroid?

How can an OSMand location be quickly opened as a satellite view?

Edit: Extra info is, I’m looking for an offline satellite image solution. Full pre-loading of a specific areas, before travel.

With RMaps, it was possible to pre-load the tiles for the remote-location needed at various zoom-levels, before travelling a few 100kms from cell-towers, and then still being able to access an offline-satellite-view of those locations when there.

  • @ace_garpOP
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    11 month ago

    Holding down on the map --> pressing ‘Actions’ --> then ‘Download map’ works very well offline, thank you!

    I did not know about the offline satellite download within OSMand, TIL.

    What is the most open and still usable satellite tileset? Is it MS Hybrid?

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      I think it depends a lot on where you are. Where I am, the government (kinda unofficially) provides excellent quality (<10 cm/px in some cities, and <50cm/px for the entire country) orthographically adjusted aerial imaging, that’s a lot better than any commercial solution.