Speedometer. Apple map settings.

You can pick map type here from Street, Satellite and Hybrid (Satellite with street names overlay).

One more option is to show Traffic information overlay on a map.

If you want higher zoom levels when working with satellite map go for the Google satellite map - it has at least twice as higher zoom level, compared to Apple’s satellite maps.

To compare, here is max zoom of Apple map that is currently available:

And here is the extra zoom you are getting with Google satellite map:


Related information:

Map url/sources library

Offline maps.

Import existing mbtiles, Rmaps, sqlitedb maps

Grid shows instead of an offline map, help!

Built in map - Google