[Qgis-user] offline googlemaps (or the like) images

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,

> I'm going to do some fieldwork in some pretty remote places, and I'd 
> like to use qgis (combined with the qgismapper plugin to match my gps 
> and photo's). What I'd really like to have, is some highres background 
> imagery, like the satellite layer from googlemaps. Anyone knows of a 
> way/tool to fetch a predifined area of this (or another service which 
> provides highres background imagery) as a georeferenced image, so I can 
> use it offline as a background layer while gps-wardriving the swamps of 
> Borneo?

if you get your own imagery you can easily install a wms server on your
machine and connect to it with qgis.

if landsat resolution is enough for you, you may want to have a look at
this tutorial

http://www.gaia-gis.it/rasterlite2/Landsat-HowTo.pdf

cheers

-- Giovanni --