copyright issue aside, using parts of SAT image on areas of interest is doable, yet nobody tried all SAT image tiles for a theater mod..the idea has been disccused by several modders years ago, the conclusion is lack of such tool and tile number limitation.
well.. then how about a theater with small islands?
I knew, such island-type theaters do not work well with massive ground fighting, so they best fit TE-type gaming.A tile is 1kmx1km size, so the SAT tiles used in some areas are..
Iojima?/Okinawa, Japan.. 500-600 tiles.
Paracel islands/Sparty island, south china sea..400-500 tiles.
Haiwaii, USA.. 20000 tiles.
Iceland..15000-20000 tiles.
Falkland alone( not counting Argentina landmass)...20000 tiles.
Taiwan alone( not counting china landmass)... 80000 tiles.
<note: the tile uplimit is 4096 in FF. >
Given the estimated tile number, only very small islands fit this "all SAT image tile mod" criteria.
Also processing SAT image by hand is another big challenge..and totally no joy.
Again.. regarding the workload, the conclusion is..SAT image tiles can only be used at foci of interest, at this moment.