I should probably explain how this works, or is supposed to work, as it’s a bit buggy at the moment. We’re working on fixing those issues.
Basically, if you are on a page with a map - Explore, Upload, Observation detail, Identify, Taxon, etc - and choose Map or Satellite view on that page, that choice is now “sticky” throughout the rest of the site. So if I’m using the uploader and switch to satellite view, I should see all maps in satellite view on the rest of the site until I choose map view on another map. Then all maps will be shown in map view until I change it again.