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Cached Google Earth Imagery for offline useage #2550

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jo-spek opened this issue Jul 17, 2024 · 6 comments
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Cached Google Earth Imagery for offline useage #2550

jo-spek opened this issue Jul 17, 2024 · 6 comments

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@jo-spek
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jo-spek commented Jul 17, 2024

Hey, it was great to see that satellite imagery can be downloaded for offline use. However, the zoom level of that Sentinel imagery is unfortunately unpractical for use in the field and disappears when zooming in closely.

Seeing that most Google satellite imagery is quite recent, can the cache be downloaded locally for offline use? I've seen it implemented in other apps.

Thanks for the consideration.

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gino-m commented Jul 18, 2024

Hi @jo-spek, thanks for the feature request! The Earth satellite imagery is automatically cached locally when viewed, but unfortunately it cannot be downloaded explicitly. What apps have you seen that do this? I'd like to better understand what they're doing. Thanks!

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jo-spek commented Jul 18, 2024

Hi @gino-m. It has been implemented in INATrace, the polygonmaking app for GIZ's traceability system. I don't know where exactly on their Git it is, but I can find out. Have a look here: https://github.com/INATrace

For clarification, I'm with Rémi in Kenya right now, testing on the ground. I've been previously involved with the GIZ INATrace project.

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gino-m commented Jul 18, 2024

Thanks again. Are you sure they're download Maps imagery for offline use? I don't see a mobile app in that repo so it's hard to tell.

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jo-spek commented Jul 18, 2024 via email

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gino-m commented Jul 19, 2024

There is a commercial fork by the contracted developer on GooglePlay called INATrace Pro. You can use it as a guest and give it a try. 

I installed and tested it. I see it's using MapBox imagery, which actually can be downloaded offline:
https://docs.mapbox.com/help/troubleshooting/mobile-offline

Afaik this currently isn't possible with Maps/Earth imagery (beyond caching as mentioned).

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jo-spek commented Jul 22, 2024

Ah, too bad. That I wasn't aware of. Thanks for looking into it!

@gino-m gino-m closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jul 30, 2024
@github-project-automation github-project-automation bot moved this to Done in Ground Jul 30, 2024
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