Satellite Eyes 2.0.0

Satellite Eyes is back after a six year hiatus. In this release...

New features!

• Bored of looking at a map of your office? You can now switch to a rotating selection of interesting sights from around the world
• Higher resolution satellite imagery on retina displays
• Improved interface for adding your own custom tiles
• Dark mode support

Bug fixes!

• Launch at login should work more reliably
• The Stamen Watercolor maps should work again
• Improved error handling when a broken tile downloads

Other things you should know!

• The other Stamen maps have gone, as there isn't a free alternative for them (you could sign up for Stadia Maps and add a custom tile source with your own API key if you like)
• Replaced Mapbox Satellite with Google Satellite tiles
• Removed Amigocloud Streets as it frequently fails to load

Satellite Eyes 2.0.0-rc.2

Like rc-1, but with a handful of fixes and improvements.

Satellite Eyes 2.0.0-rc.1

Big changes

• Full port of Satellite Eyes to Swift and modern MacOS SDK (thanks Claude)
• Raised the minimum OS requirements to 13.0
• Added the ability to toggle between your location or random location from our database of airports and World Heritage Sites
• Replaced Mapbox Satellite with Google Satellite and made it the default (I think most people want satellite imagery, and I can't afford to serve Mapbox tiles with much more volume)

Small changes

• Separated storage of the default map tiles from custom map styles, ensuring updates to either type of tiles don't prevent updates to default
• Allowed the user to pick from specific integer zoom levels (as opposed to vague but friendly labels)
• Added support dark mode throughout (just in the UI, it doesn't affect the map images)
• Added an alert in the menu if there's a pending Sparkle update screen open somewhere in the background that the user hasn't actioned

Bug fixes

• Switched to the native MacOS launch-at-login SDK, fixing issues with launch at login not working on more recent MacOS versions
• Restored the Stamen Watercolor style, using the Cooper-Hewitt hosted version
• Removed other Stamen styles that don't work, and don't have an API keyless replacement
• Improved error handling when a tile downloads but it's not an image - prevent the entire image from rendering rather than just displaying a hole in the map

1.5.0

Support Apple Silicon, and fix Mapbox styles.

1.4.3

Added support for App Notarization, a new security feature on MacOS.

1.4.2

Fixed a bug that prevented Satellite Eyes from starting at login (if you'd selected that option). Also made all the maps load over HTTPS, to improve your privacy, and got an API key for the Thunderforest maps.

1.4.0

Better icons, more styles and fixed 'start at log in'.

1.3.1

Added 4 new map styles from Thunderforest, and UI for customising the preset styles. Also, made a separate About window, where everyone can be credited properly. And if you're running a map tile server, Satellite Eyes now sets its own User-Agent header containing the version number.

1.2.4

Bump to version 1.2.4.