
An easy way to create Satellite Overlays for OpenCPN - Tips on Tuesday
June 21, 2022 by Sailing Aquarius Around The World | Language: EN Play Time: 00:19:50 | SAILING YOUTUBERS

This is an easy way to create Satellite overlays for OpenCPN with a Mac or a PC in 30 minutes or less. That is the set up time, once you are set up, you can create a Satellite overlay in about 5 minutes start to finish. Anyone can do it now quickly, and easily before a crossing with a decent internet connection.
Below is a link to download the QGIS Program
https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html
Please leave them a tip for making this software available!
Below are URL’s for sources of XYZTiles data
ESRI Imagery -http://server.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}
Google Road – http://mt1.google.com/vt/1yrs=m&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}
Bing Satellite – http://ecn.t3.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/a{q}.jpeg?g=1
Google Satellite Ru – http://www.google.ru/maps/vt?lyrs=s@189&gl=ru&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}
Google Satellite – https://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=s&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}
Mapzen Global Terrain – https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
Open Street – https://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
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0:00 Introduction
0:23 Tips On Tuesday Intro
1:01 Bullet Points for this video
2:00 MBTiles vs XYZTiles
3:14 XYZTiles work with OpenCPN
3:30 Raster vs Vecter
5:29 View Satellite overlays of the Golf of Aden
7:32 Entrence to Maupiha’a
8:16 Download QGIS
8:38 Install QGIS
8:49 Links to XYZFiles Data
9:06 Open QGIS and input Links to data
10:33 Test the data links
11:03 Make a Satellite Overlay
16:00 Make a Satellite overlay with 17 levels of zoom
17:21 Open OpenCPN and load the new overlays
17:49 View the new XYZTiles to Music
19:33 Outro
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