# Satellite maps no longer show labels on PC?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/satellite-maps-no-longer-show-labels-on-pc/24215>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [June 24, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/satellite-maps-no-longer-show-labels-on-pc/24215 "2021-06-24T17:40:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![silversea\_starsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@silversea\_starsong](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/silversea_starsong)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/satellite-maps-no-longer-show-labels-on-pc/24215/1 "2021-06-24T17:40:41Z")

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**Platform** : Website

**Browser** : Chrome

**URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: Any observation page

**Description of problem** : Satellite map view on the observation page no longer shows labels such as town, city and road names, while standard map view does.

Step 1: open an observation page

Step 2: change the map view to “satellite”

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/satellite-maps-no-longer-show-labels-on-pc/24215/2 "2021-06-24T18:28:18Z")

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Do you have “Labels” unchecked?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/5/c/5c988e46397eed6dffe77365f3822bef96b28ec0.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![silversea\_starsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@silversea\_starsong](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/silversea_starsong)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/satellite-maps-no-longer-show-labels-on-pc/24215/3 "2021-06-24T21:32:06Z")

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There is no such option on my computer, as I’m looking for currently. I see the “terrain” checkbox under the Map side, but nothing comes up under Satellite.

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**Author:** ![silversea\_starsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@silversea\_starsong](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/silversea_starsong)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/satellite-maps-no-longer-show-labels-on-pc/24215/4 "2021-06-24T21:36:26Z")

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Aha! Ok, I found the problem. When you first view the page, if it is set to Satellite, it will not show the checkbox for labels. But if you then switch to Map, and back to Satellite, the option comes back up. And it was unchecked.

Problem solved.

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/satellite-maps-no-longer-show-labels-on-pc/24215/5 "2021-06-24T22:07:06Z")

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