Zoom Level on Satellite Map

Flight - Discussion and Q&A
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Are there going to be improvements to allow greater zoom levels on the background satellite map layer ? (Bing Maps).

Currently, the zoom level is not sufficient enough to allow enough background detail on most drone imagery at a reasonable scale. This is also a big issue with both offline flight planning as there is no way to see where your location is compared to a background image.

Part of this might be resolved if you allow import of a simple KMZ survey boundary in offline survey planning?

Note: I am using this in Australia, maybe US might have better resolution zoom layers for Bing Maps.

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We do have an experimental feature to allow the importing of shapefiles. We are looking into ways to improve this in the future.

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Ok, that is great. Shapefiles are great, but I think for the masses, you’d want to look at kml/kmz 's.

Is it possible for me to activate the experimental feature?

4

I enabled this for you.

5

It’s only available on the desktop planning.

6

Fantastic, much appreciated. Will test it out and get feedback to you if I encounter any issues,

cheers

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I am flying at 60ft to get try to get the most detail of the field I am flying. The detail is still not great enough for what I need. Is there a way to zoom in more?

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