Zoom feature in satellite layer

yoon_777

Zoom out feature doesn't reach to all countries view I.e. Earth view in satellite layer .

idefix37

The Satellite layer is not available beyond 73°N and 73°S. This is due to the map projection in 2D which greatly distorts the polar regions.
What country would you like to see with Satellite layer?

yoon_777

Zoom out should be enough to see entire continents (north to South America spanning view) from Pacific Ocean. occurs on mobile website.

Something like this zoomed out:

(https://images.app.goo.gl/osCa3h9qBtUCDtga6)

idefix37

@yoon_777

What you show are only drawings !
You should understand that satellite pictures (photos) would see their resolution dropping dramatically over polar regions (beyond than 73°N or 73°S). Satellite images over these regions would be distorted and stretched, and therefore would show a very low resolution, becoming consequently very blurry.
You can easily see that the quality of satellite images are already not so good from 65° to 73° latitude. This is due to the Mercator-like projection used for Windy maps.

yoon_777

This is the farthest it reaches:

This is how it should look without the bug:

idefix37

@yoon_777

Here is the picture I get with my phone.
There is may be an issue with your phone display?
And why don’t you use the phone app, instead of windy.com website with you phone?

BTW you can already see how the image resolution decreases north of Alaska.

yoon_777

@idefix37 apologies for the misunderstood.

Satellite layer needs to be in Earth mode as well.