I shall be using mission planner to fly my fixed wing drone in a very remote part of the world, where there will not be any internet. I have some pre-created flight paths (.KML) which I can upload to MissionPlanner, but will want to create more, when I’m out there.
My question is this:
Can I download maps into Mission Planner, and use the software 100% offline to a) fly transects (which I think is a YES) and b) create new transects/waypoints, onto pre-saved google earth maps in the programme?
I will not have the luxury of connecting to the internet between drone deployments and want to have all my maps loaded and saved/secure before I head out into the field, which is a 2-month stint.
Has anyone got any tips or had experience of working like this?
You can prefetch small patches of Google Maps imagery inside Mission Planner.
But this will not work on a large scale, due to constraints made by google.
There are other possibilities to do that, but you will need basic geoinformatic skills…
Keywords for that: Geoserver and WMS
I’ve used Mission Planner offline to create new flight paths. I think the only major functionality Mission Planner needs an internet connection for is downloading background maps.
If I prefetch a map of the islands I need (a bunch of atolls in the Ocean), will the map stay at highest resolution, for the next few months, without an internet connection? I’m worried that if I try to zoom in or play with MP, I might lose them. I think I will test this and see if it works over the next 2 weeks or so, as a start…!