Why is the circled area shaded on the OpenMap but not other layers? Thank you

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mark_loyacano

• January 22, 2018 09:40

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  Ashli Baldwin

  • January 23, 2018 18:39

  Hi,

  The reason that the shading is showing there is because this map is made of two layers. Layer 1 is the Satellite imagery, and layer 2 is an OpenStreetMap labels overlay. 

  The OpenStreetMap Layer doesn't know there is an island there. For reference, look at the topo version of OpenStreetMap here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=27.781%2F-80.420#map=16/27.7462/-80.4133

  You can see that this island is missing. 

  There are two things you could do about this:

  1. You could switch to the map called 'Satellite' instead of the map called 'Satellite with labels' and the shading will disappear.

  2. You could add the island to OpenStreetMap.org. Here's a blog post we wrote about how to update OSM: https://blog.gaiagps.com/map-your-world-with-openstreetmap/

  After a few weeks, the updates you make in OSM should propagate to maps in Gaia GPS that use OSM data.

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