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I would suggest "birds-eye" or something similar. That's sufficiently ambiguous that the source doesn't matter - e.g. an ortho is essentially a top-down view of a 3D-modelled surface. I guess most people outside GIS/Remote Sensing are unfamiliar with the terminology though.

The problem (I guess) is that aerial/satellite/orthorectified are not equivalent.

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> The problem (I guess) is that aerial/satellite/orthorectified are not equivalent.

Yep I agree - I would call it orthorectified georeferenced imagery but unless you're in the GIS/OSM space you probably don't know what that means. I agree that "birds-eye" would have been a good alternative.

Satellite imagery is technically incorrect whether it's from a iPhone or a plane but that's what most people call it and know it by. (I love this thread on how "satellite" almost became known as "bird mode": https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1099370126678253569)

I chose aerial imagery as an in-between - understandable to everyone, still not correct but less incorrect than satellite imagery.

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