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Add new MAP providers to INAV Configurator now Bing maps no longer allowing new keys #10196

Open Painless360 opened 5 months ago

Painless360 commented 5 months ago

Current Behavior

Many are interested in adding up to date satellite style maps for mission planning but are unable to setup the Bing maps option now.

Desired Behavior

Be able to pick map providers from other commonly used providers and choose the map type to 'see'

Suggested Solution

Add additional, simple ways for INAV pilots to choose different map providers from a list

Who does this impact? Who is this for?

All users who use the map function.

Thank you for considering this. I did look for something similar but couldn't find anything in the suggestions/issues pages.

Happy flying!

DzikuVx commented 5 months ago

That depends which. Google Maps are not a possibility as UAV tracking is against Google Maps TOS. Can you suggest something free that allows UAV/vehicle tracking?

Painless360 commented 5 months ago

Lots of options used by the tools that work with Ardupilot. Maybe one of those could work? https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol/blob/master/src/QtLocationPlugin/QGCMapUrlEngine.cpp#L50

CarolineTyler commented 3 months ago

Yes, this needs to be addressed. The default map is not suitable for creating missions.

sensei-hacker commented 3 months ago

I did some digging around to find the highest resolution, open licenses satellite imagery I could find. The best available without licensing restrictions that I found is Sentinel-2, at 10-meter resolution. That's for visible light images.

That's probably not quite good enough. There is topographical data at a higher resolution. I could superimpose the topo data on the visible light image and it helps, but it's still not what we'd want.

Open Imagery Network and Open Aerial Map are related projects to build a crowd-sourced map. I don't know how much they have so far - I suspect not nearly enough. But if a person contributed their own images of the area they fly, those images would then appear on the map for their own future use and for others to use.

sensei-hacker commented 3 months ago

However, I also found that one of the providers Bing uses is Here.com. Here.com has an API for which you can get a key for free, and their list of restrictions does not mention UAVs. :) Here.com might be a good replacement.