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.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    3·
    29 days ago

    It’s not elegant but you can effectively preload the tiles by just swiping around the relevant zone at a bunch of zoom levels while you have a connection. The cache is not actively purged so the tiles will be available when you need them. I’ve regularly done this.

    • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      29 days ago

      OsmAnd does support this now. You need to activate the overlay/underlay you want to download, press&hold anywhere on the map, then in the menu do Actions > Download Map.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        28 days 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?

        • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          28 days 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.