# Google satellite layer overlapped on QField
**URL:** https://community.qfield.org/t/google-satellite-layer-overlapped-on-qfield/588
**Category:** Ask the Community
**Tags:** gh-import
**Created:** [14 May 2025 02:37 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/google-satellite-layer-overlapped-on-qfield/588 "2025-05-14T02:37:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.qfield.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [14 May 2025 02:37 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/google-satellite-layer-overlapped-on-qfield/588/1 "2025-05-14T02:37:31Z")
I have a project which includes an XYZ layer for Google Satellite Imagery (URL [http://www.google.cn/maps/vt?lyrs=s189&gl=cn&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}](http://www.google.cn/maps/vt?lyrs=s189&gl=cn&x=%7Bx%7D&y=%7By%7D&z=%7Bz%7D)). This layer is correctly displayed on QGIS Desktop, but when I enable it on QField it is mostly covered by map canvas. It is displayed during a fraction of second, but then it is covered by a white layer in all screen but a narrow stripe at the bottom. I have other XYZ layers in the same project that are correctly displayed. It has happened for more than two years now, but it still happens with current version of QField (2.8.3). I also tried recreating project from scratch, but nothing changed.
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_Imported from [GitHub discussion](https://github.com/opengisch/qfield/discussions/4441) by @cdavila on 2023-07-11T16:24:37Z_
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.qfield.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [14 May 2025 02:37 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/google-satellite-layer-overlapped-on-qfield/588/2 "2025-05-14T02:37:33Z")
This also same upo on another forum, but I don’t think its been resolved. Can you post an example QField Project with this problem to assist in finding the issue?
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_Imported from [GitHub comment](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/discussions/4441#discussioncomment-6418577) by @Oisin-JK on 2023-07-11T16:39:06Z_
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.qfield.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [14 May 2025 02:37 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/google-satellite-layer-overlapped-on-qfield/588/3 "2025-05-14T02:37:34Z")
[nitratos.zip](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/files/12017478/nitratos.zip)
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_Imported from [GitHub comment](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/discussions/4441#discussioncomment-6419022) by @cdavila on 2023-07-11T17:29:06Z_
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.qfield.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [14 May 2025 02:37 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/google-satellite-layer-overlapped-on-qfield/588/4 "2025-05-14T02:37:35Z")
cdavila , your XYZ URL actually leads to a redirect, which in turn leads to a QGIS issue handling tile caching.
Short-term fix, use this URL instead: [http://www.google.com/maps/vt?lyrs=s189&gl=cn&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}](http://www.google.com/maps/vt?lyrs=s189&gl=cn&x=%7Bx%7D&y=%7By%7D&z=%7Bz%7D)
Longer-term fix: [[xyz] Fix tile caching of redirected XYZ URLs by nirvn · Pull Request #53792 · qgis/QGIS · GitHub](https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/53792) – should be in QField’s next release.
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_Imported from [GitHub comment](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/discussions/4441#discussioncomment-6422406) by @nirvn on 2023-07-12T03:46:08Z_
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.qfield.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [14 May 2025 02:37 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/google-satellite-layer-overlapped-on-qfield/588/5 "2025-05-14T02:37:38Z")
Provided URL works like a charm, thank!
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_Imported from [GitHub comment](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/discussions/4441#discussioncomment-6423460) by @cdavila on 2023-07-12T06:41:57Z_