# Project map not sticky

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/project-map-not-sticky/44125>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** satellite-view\
**Created:** [August 12, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/project-map-not-sticky/44125 "2023-08-12T07:12:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/project-map-not-sticky/44125/1 "2023-08-12T07:12:33Z")

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[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/thoughts-on-not-making-the-taxon-page-map-type-sticky/5427](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/thoughts-on-not-making-the-taxon-page-map-type-sticky/5427)

My own default on iNat is satellite view. I want to see the Sahara, the rain forests, the green rind along the Mediterranean and way down South where I live.  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mission-impossible-identify-plantae-in-africa](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mission-impossible-identify-plantae-in-africa)

Every time I open this project, it **defaults back to a map view of the whole world**. No, thank you. I toggle to satellite view, and zoom in to Africa. But it doesn’t stay like that if I refresh. Or if I go to another tab and come back within the same logged in session.

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**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/project-map-not-sticky/44125/2 "2023-08-12T07:23:42Z")

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[https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-africa/](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-africa/)

Seems to hold the satellite view. Is it a project setting?  
But also does not hold the zoomed in to Africa instead of the unhelpful whole world default.

If zoomed in to Africa with satellite view could be either a personal setting?  
Or at at least hold where I put it, **until** I tell it to change?

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**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/project-map-not-sticky/44125/3 "2023-08-12T07:29:02Z")

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[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/default-map-satellite-view-in-personal-preferences/4146](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/default-map-satellite-view-in-personal-preferences/4146)

For me this was the greatest and best improvement on iNat since I landed here. Requested (not by me) on 14 June, activated on 28 June! Way back in 2019.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/project-map-not-sticky/44125/4 "2023-10-11T07:29:07Z")

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