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add additional and higher resolution basemap types to Google Basemaps #688

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@lemonjesus lemonjesus commented Jul 15, 2022

added two additional types of basemaps that can be rendered from Google: Hybrid (Satellite + Map) and Terrain.

there are some other more niche map types documented here - but these probably aren't useful for basemaps. a particularly interesting one, however, is the "Terrain Only" option which seems to provide a relief map of the terrain that might work in normal maps, but I haven't tried this out. I've left it out of this PR.

additionally, I've added support for higher resolution basemaps. Google's tile server will serve scaled-up map tiles in higher resolutions:

Normal
2x Scale
4x Scale

as you can see, these provide no additional detail, but are rendered at a higher resolution before they're rasterized. this is useful if you want the detail-level of a further-out zoom level, but you need higher resolutions for zooming into said rasterized map without loss of quality.

GIS Scale Example

tested in Blender 3.1.2

@lemonjesus lemonjesus changed the title add additional basemap types to Google Basemaps add additional and higher resolution basemap types to Google Basemaps Jul 15, 2022
it doesn't work anyway, my map tiles are still in French for some reason.
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