Satellite view

I want to use satellite view when out in the bush on tracks. But the option disappears from the menu when I lose internet coverage

That is not possible in Traveller. Satellite view is an online only option.

I have the Australia Topo Maps app. The satellite images are good, the ESRI aerial images seem to be a slightly higher res (smaller pixel size) than the online EO Traveller images. As I understand, ESRI aerial are a mixture of satellite and air photo images so it might depend on where you are looking. To use the Aust Topo ESRI aerial images offline, they need to be cached. A year ago when I tried to download a cache forHay R Track it was tedious and not very successful for a long and narrow but large area. Even with a 50MBs download (~36 over wifi) it took several days of constant downloading and there were missing tiles and various glitches. It would be much easier if the area of interest was squarer and smaller so that you could get the entire area of interest in a single box and download. For a limited area, that you knew you wanted in advance it would be great, I'll definitely be trying again. The YouTube clip is definitely worthwhile watching and mirrors my experience with the app. Now if you could only overlay the sat image with a map!!
I think these various packages are complimentary, I wanted the offline sat images as 'insurance' so if I became confused about a route and couldn't see a marked track on the ground due to changed conditions a geolocated position on an image would reassurance. One of the family used the app while bushwalking in Namadgi NP and found the cached sat image invaluable when taking a route marked on the map that became poorly defined on the ground.
I think the additional functionality provided by EO Traveller and I presume other packages such as Hema and OziExplorer (which I haven't used), make them better apps for touring.

Warren
“Now if you could only overlay the sat image with a map!!“

I use some software that does that, but alas no caching.

“Now if you could only overlay the sat image with a map!!“

Plain old Google maps does that...



And you can cache maps on Apple and Android devices using following method
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Launch the Google Maps app from the Home screen of your iPhone, iPad or Android Device
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Find the area of the map that you'd like to cache for offline use (select sat/terrain image layers if thats what you want)

In the Search bar type in "Ok Maps" and hit Search.

You'll see a screen with the Google icon showing that it's processing the area for offline caching.

You'll now see a message at the bottom screen asking if you wish to download data.
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Note: I haven't tried this in real world situation and guess its of limited use in a lot of cases but you can do it if you want.

Cheers
Greg

Great tip thanks Greg. It worked well. Cheers.

Good tip Greg, as far as I remember, the original version of Google maps didn't cache at all, then there was an automated caching of the area you had viewed, this was automatically deleted at some point and I don't think you had any control. It's about this stage I thought no more about using it offline.
There's also an extension of Google maps called My Maps which can be useful for sharing trip plans. It has the advantage of being able to have a large number of destinations (way points) and you can have treks broken up into segments which are stored as layers. Additionally you can import/export gpx, kml and kmz files. My maps can't be used for navigation as it doesn't talk to the gps (afaik).