Indranil - Google Maps is no longer used from version 2.6 onwards. From 2.6 the whole mapping has been greatly improved with new online maps, more information on this can be found on http://www.visokio.com/okavango

You can access the new online maps from the Maps button in the toolbar of the Map view.

Hi Mustafa,

Thanks for your comments. I have tried out the online, hybrid map that seemed to be the closest to google maps. Please let me know if there are other option available. A couple of issues though. I am getting slightly blurry labels for the city and state names(see attached screenshot). Is it possible to get crisper labels and configure label colors etc? Also, the slider bar in the zoom menu does not zoom to the city levels. I can, however, get down to street levels using the "Zoom to fixed region" option. Is there a way to configure the sliders to zoom to the street levels?

Cheers!
Indranil.

Indranil,

You will find you can also zoom in more precisely by dragging anywhere on the map with the right mouse button when in Zoom mode. This will allow you to zoom into the street level more easily. We'll see if the slider can be improved - thanks for reporting this.

Since these maps are tiles of images at a sequence of resolutions, when you are in-between two resolutions, Omniscope scales the images, resulting in blurry titles in some cases. The titles are part of the image tiles themselves. You don't get this with map websites because they limit you to zooming in precisely to one of around 16 steps, whereas Omniscope allows you to zoom in precisely to whatever region you want.

You will find if you zoom out slowly you can find a zoom level where the images are closer to their original size and are much crisper.

Alternatively, switch to Online world, satellite. Choose Tools > Show dynamic place labels, and Tools > Place labelling options > Background > Enabled. You won't see the state names, but will see towns and cities.

From tonight's build, the zoom sliders in the Map view now allow you to easily adjust the zoom down to street level.

thanks very much Steve

Any chance of Ctrl+scrollwheel (and/or Ctrl+/-) zooming in the Map view when not in Zoom mode? Would be great to have 'standard' Windows functionality

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