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.

  • KickMeElmo
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    2 months ago

    Unfortunately if you require fully offline usage, that option doesn’t seem to be available via OSMand directly.

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      2 months ago

      OsmAnd does support this. 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.

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        2 months ago

        That’s fantastic to know. I was completely unaware.

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      2 months ago

      Thanks for this.

      Do you know what happened to RMaps?

      The previous page for it on fdroid 404s.