Satellite Imagery as PNG
Price before paymentThis is a BARE photo from orbit: not one of our layers is on it — no buildings, no streets, no labels. To get the photo with our map drawn over it, order any ordinary format and tick “Satellite photo under the map” in the order settings. Satellite PNG is a satellite snapshot of your area in lossless PNG. Unlike the other exports, this does not draw an OSM vector map but real imagery from orbit: osm2cdr.com downloads XYZ tiles from the Sentinel-2 Cloudless mosaic (EOX, 2017 imagery, 10 m per pixel — the sensor sees no finer), stitches them and crops to the bounding box. PNG preserves every pixel exactly, which matters for scientific work and overlays. The file is a plain image with no georeferencing — if you need coordinates, choose satellite GeoTIFF. Coverage is bounded (up to 400 tiles per request).
OpenStreetMap data as of 26 October 2026 · 14 days ago
Key Features
About Satellite PNG Format
PNG is a lossless raster format: every pixel is stored exactly as it arrived, with no compression artifacts. It is supported by every program and browser, and it can do transparency.
This export gives real imagery from orbit, not a drawn map. PNG is chosen when the image goes into further processing: measurements on the imagery, before-and-after comparison, layer overlays, a scientific illustration — anywhere you cannot allow compression to invent pixels.
How it is assembled: tiles of the Sentinel-2 Cloudless mosaic (EOX, 2017 imagery, 10 meters per pixel) are stitched and cropped to your frame, and the zoom is chosen automatically to fit the tile limit per request. The file is an ordinary picture with no coordinates: for the image to land on the map in a GIS by itself, you need the GeoTIFF option.
What Program Opens Satellite PNG Files
The following programs and applications can open, edit, and work with Satellite Imagery as PNG (.png) files exported from OSM2CDR:
Format specifications
- Open standard
- 2D only
- Lossless (no quality loss)
- No attributes
- Output: 1 file
- A lossless PNG stitched from Sentinel-2 Cloudless XYZ tiles (EOX, 2017, 10 m per pixel), every pixel preserved exactly; the CC BY 4.0 credit sits in a PNG text chunk. No georeferencing — use the satellite GeoTIFF for coordinates.
Who Uses Satellite PNG Maps
How to Export Satellite PNG
How to Open After Export
- Viewing — any browser or image viewer, everything understands PNG.
- GIMP, Photoshop, Affinity Photo — processing without loss of quality: cropping, layers, measurements, export to the format you need.
- QGIS — a PNG can be georeferenced by hand through the Georeferencer module; if you would rather not bother, download Satellite GeoTIFF right away.
- Comparison with the vector map — download the same area as SVG or PDF and overlay them: a convenient way to check what is already mapped in OSM and what is not.
- Attribution — the licence credit already sits inside the file (EXIF for JPEG, a text chunk for PNG): "Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2017. Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX IT Services GmbH (CC BY 4.0), https://maps.eox.at". Repeat it next to the image when you publish.
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