Originally Posted by
sbm12
Sounds like the image tiles aren't loading correctly. That happens sometimes on weekends, IME.
To be more precise, to keep our bandwidth bills somewhat sane, we're using the free MetaCarta third-party server for the map files. They're pretty reliable (this was the first outage in months), but you do get what you pay for...
Click the + sign on the top-right and then choose the other radio button option there. That might work better.
Perversely enough, the second map option (NASA Global Mosaic) was
also down this weekend.
First time that's ever happened though, and they're both up again.