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# Imagery
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Aerial imagery is an important resource for mapping. A combination of
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airplane flyovers, satellite views, and freely-compiled sources are available
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in the editor under the 'Background Settings' menu on the left.
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By default a [Bing Maps](http://www.bing.com/maps/) satellite layer is
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presented in the editor, but as you pan and zoom the map to new geographical
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areas, new sources will become available. Some countries, like the United
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States, France, and Denmark have very high-quality imagery available for some areas.
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Imagery is sometimes offset from the map data because of a mistake on the
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imagery provider's side. If you see a lot of roads shifted from the background,
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don't immediately move them all to match the background. Instead you can adjust
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the imagery so that it matches the existing data by clicking 'Fix alignment' at
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the bottom of the Background Settings UI.
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