# What happened to map quality?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-happened-to-map-quality/25479>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [August 10, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-happened-to-map-quality/25479 "2021-08-10T16:45:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jaime59](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jaime59/32/20627_2.png) [@jaime59](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jaime59)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-happened-to-map-quality/25479/1 "2021-08-10T16:45:31Z")

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Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can.

**Platform** (Android, iOS, Website): Website

**App version number** , if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

**Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox, Chrome

**URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**:  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=43.17622106153442&nelng=-77.31380762066692&place\_id=any&quality\_grade=research&subview=map&swlat=43.03836284649906&swlng=-77.88475336041301&taxon\_id=45933&verifiable=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=43.17622106153442&nelng=-77.31380762066692&place_id=any&quality_grade=research&subview=map&swlat=43.03836284649906&swlng=-77.88475336041301&taxon_id=45933&verifiable=any)  
**Screenshots of what you are seeing** (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: [https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/](https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/)):

 ![screen shot inat map](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/7/a/7a9d26acd48f6e13c73c4318482c4cf0e0c38e00.gif)

**Description of problem** (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):  
I don’t know if this is a bug with my system or just a feature of iNat that has changed since the last time I used the “explore” feature, but I don’t remember the maps being so washed out that you can hardly see anything on them other than a few place names.  
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**Author:** ![ncb1221](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ncb1221/32/9877_2.png) [@ncb1221](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ncb1221)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-happened-to-map-quality/25479/3 "2021-08-10T21:31:50Z")

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It looks like you just need to turn back on the satellite layer in the map. The button between List and Places of Interest

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**Author:** ![marina\_gorbunova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/marina_gorbunova/32/31454_2.png) [@marina\_gorbunova](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/marina_gorbunova)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-happened-to-map-quality/25479/4 "2021-08-10T22:50:05Z")

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There’s a problem with “map” layer, letters are hardly seen and there’s no green as if when you open map in Google:  
iNat map

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/8/d/8dc74f37d9a9f06b93047ea96fe589a0325095d3.jpeg)  
Google map  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/d/a/da4ffe0b5d422295c010e835a76c08a0a52aa0b7.png)