Best posts made by athertop

Can we please have the capability of switching between street/satellite background map on the main screen? Its buried in the advanced settings, which is a pain to use - please, I like to be able to locate decent hills using contours, then switch to satellite background to see how it looks in real world!

I use another site called paraglidingmap.com and on that site the paragliding launch site icons change to reflect whether that site is flyable in the current conditions. For example, it knows for each site, what the allowable wind directions are, and also takes into account the wind strength (inc gusts) and changes the icons to a green smiley if both direction/strength are OK to permit flight from this location, or a sad face if outside acceptable thresholds. It also has pointers for landing sites. Wondering if you could use the same data on your map here to further advance the functionality of the paragliding feature?

The ability to choose which background map is displayed - easily:

Wouldn't this be awesome? Sorry, I'm tired of making this suggestion and being ignored, so thought I'd make a more graphical suggestion :-)

Is there a Satellite map overlay option in Windy.com?

I notice that if I select an altitude above ground level whilst the forecast panel is showing in the lower third, the numbers in the panel do not change to reflect the forecast at that altitude. This would be really nice to have.

no one got an answer?

@idefix37 Well spotted! Hope they fix the bug.

I just realised that there is a satellite map option now - accessible under Settings, Advanced. Did this just get added? I would have thought it would have been hailed as a new feature as per the isobars feature, but seen no word of it in the publicity at all.

We do need access to this feature though on the main screen - rather than having to find it under Settings - can this be considered for an enhancement please?