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Many users would like to enjoy satellite photos of their native places, to see their house, a nearby river or forest from above, in a word, everything that is usually called “small homeland”. Satellite cartographic services, which provide a unique opportunity to view all required geolocations in a detailed graphic mode, can become a tool for realizing this desire. After my attempts to view my home from a satellite online, I found really high-quality services and will share my experience in the article.

What you need to know when looking for your home on an online map

There is a huge variety of map services on the web that provide the user with access to high-resolution satellite maps. At the same time, the vast majority of such services use the API from "Google Maps", and only a few services (including the domestic "Yandex.Maps") can boast of their own cartographic developments, different from the dominant maps in this segment from Google.

At the same time, working with such cards is quite formulaic. You go to one of them, if necessary, turn on the satellite display, and then enter your address (locality, street, house number) in the search bar. After that, the service finds the required location, and you can enlarge or reduce the existing display using the mouse wheel. If the service for some reason does not find your home, I recommend entering the name of the city (town, village) and street, and then find the desired house yourself using the mouse.

At the same time, some services allow you not only to see your house from above, but also to walk along the streets of your native city, and enjoy the view of the buildings we need close up.

Let's move on to the list of services that will help us see our home from a satellite.

Google Maps - look at your home from a satellite in real time

The world's most popular cartographic resource is undoubtedly "Google Maps" (Google Maps). In addition to maps presented in schematic and satellite views, the service also includes the ability to 360 ° view of the streets of many cities in the world (Street View). Information about street traffic and traffic jams (Google Traffic), route planner from point A to point B, 3D display of many geographic points, other useful features.

You can use two main options to view your home:

Yandex.Maps - allows you to see the required object in Russia

Another mapping service with which you can enjoy the view of your home is Yandex.Maps. This service is the most popular in Russia, since the level of displaying the territory of Russia and the frequency of updating data in the Russian Federation exceeds all existing analogues, including the generally recognized maps from Google.

Like the Google Maps service, Yandex.Maps can boast of both standard and satellite display of maps (as well as the "Hybrid" mode, which involves the application of various text and schematic markings on a satellite map). In addition, users have access to the street display mode (Yandex.Panoramas), the traffic congestion indicator (Yandex.Traffic jams), as well as the crowdsourcing system People's Map, which can be edited by any user.

To view your home using Yandex.Maps, go to the resource, type your address in the search bar at the top, and press enter. To switch to street view mode, click on the button with binoculars at the bottom of the screen (street panoramas and photos). And then select one of the streets marked in blue (you will switch to street view mode at this point, and you can enjoy the flavor of these places).

Bing.Maps - satellite map from Microsoft

Bing.Maps is a web-based mapping service from Microsoft, formerly known as Windows Live Maps and MSN Virtual Earth. Its capabilities include satellite display of maps, street view, 3D display for 60 cities of the world, laying the optimal route and other features that are template for services of this type.

To monitor your home using Bing.Maps, go to the service indicated, click on the Road to the right, and select Hybrid View. Then enter the address you need in the search bar and view the opened view.

MapQuest is a popular American mapping service

"MapQuest" (translated as "Card Search") Is a free American mapping service, the second most popular in the US after Google Maps. The resource can boast of a high degree of detailing of the streets of many countries of the world, it will help to plot a convenient route, inform about the available traffic, and much more.

To work with it, you need to go to this resource, click on the button with the globe on the right (Satelite), which will switch to the satellite display mode. After that, in the search bar on the left, enter the address you need (preferably in Latin letters), and enjoy the display of the desired location using the MapQuest service.

MapQuest is the second most popular service in the USA

Conclusion

You can view your home from a satellite using the services I have listed in this material. For the territory of Russia, I would recommend the Yandex.Maps service - the level of its detail and the frequency of updated data inspire to consider Yandex maps as the best cartographic service on the territory of the Russian Federation. On a global scale, the Google Maps service is the undisputed leader, therefore it will be optimal to use the toolkit of this service to display maps of many countries of the world.

The satellite map of the world allows you to quickly move around the planet between any settlements. Detailed map of the world from satellite in Russian:

Explore the schematic map or switch to the world map from the satellite in the lower left corner of the map. Schematic map of the world Is a plan of the countries of the world and cities with street names and house numbers in Russian. The schematic map of the world shows sights and tourist attractions, the location of train stations, shops, restaurants and shopping centers, a map of the city's highways. Satellite map of the world will allow you to view satellite photos of the city thanks to images from the Google Maps service.

You can zoom in on the online mapby scaling it to streets and house numbers. To change the scale, use the “+” (zoom in) and “-” (zoom out) icons located in the lower right corner of the map. You can also zoom in or out on the map using the mouse wheel. The left mouse button zooms in on the map, the right mouse button zooms out. With the mouse, you can move the interactive map in all directions by grasping any place on the map with the left mouse button.

Online interactive world map is a very convenient and modern guide for exploring the city, its districts and attractions, hotels, places of rest and entertainment. An online map of the world can not become an indispensable assistant for you in your independent travel. The interactive map is provided by Google Maps.

How satellite maps of the world are created:

The satellite, passing over the planet, scans the earth's surface and maps are drawn using software. More recently, several years ago, satellite maps showed the planet's surface from a height of several kilometers. Now technologies allow making satellite maps from a height of several meters, and in the near future technologies will make it possible to create satellite maps with details of up to 30 centimeters.

What to see on the satellite map of the world:

First of all, people look for their country, their hometown, street and house in which they live on the map. To do this, you can zoom in on a schematic map of the world to your city, and then turn on the "Satellite" mode in the lower left corner of the map. In the same way, you can travel all over the world online, exploring the sights of countries and cities in real time. Popular places that are often searched for on a satellite map: Reichstag in Berlin (Germany), Athenian Acropolis in Greece, Egyptian pyramids, Italy - Colosseum in Rome (Ancient Roman gladiatorial arena, Peterhof in Russia (west of St. Petersburg), Statue of Liberty in the USA - the symbol of America, the Eiffel Tower in Paris (France), the Great Wall of China.

Map of Russia	Italy map	Germany map	Israel map
Spain map	Turkey map	USA map	Map of Armenia

Google Map is one of the most popular services today. It provides users with the opportunity to observe our planet (and not only) from a satellite online at high quality and in real time (the sights of the planet). At some point, the primacy of the schematic map view was taken over by the Open Street Maps application. Where everyone in the know can edit a map in the style of Wikipedia, but that doesn't change anything, and today Google Maps is the most popular online map service. The popularity of the maps of this company has been in first place for many years due to the good quality of satellite images in any corner of the planet, even Yandex could not provide such quality in its homeland.

Google Maps Online

Quality Google Maps Satellite Images in 2020

Google continues to improve its creation in the form of rendering of our planet, improving the quality and detail of surfaces. More recently, the company has improved its services using the new Landsat 8 satellite, which can photograph the surface of planet Earth at 15/30/100 meters resolution per elementary point. The real-time satellite imagery database was previously updated only in 2013. At that time, the application used images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite, it is also known for introducing some bugs and glitches into the work of maps. To compare the quality of the images taken by different satellites, pay attention to the screen below.

Images taken by different satellites

In the examples given on the screen, you can see that the image of the new satellite shows not only improved detail of terrestrial objects, but also more natural colors. Google announced that it has spent about 700 trillion pixels of graphics data on the next-generation mosaic of the earth's surface. Almost 43 thousand of the most powerful computers in the Google cloud have been working for a week on the gluing of pictures.

How to use Google Maps online

Anywhere in the world you can use Google Maps online in high quality using your tablet, mobile phone or computer. Just follow the link https://google.com/maps/ or use the built-in map below and you can find the country, city and even the road to the museum by specifying the required search parameters. And for mobile devices, you can download a special application that is more convenient to use.

To find your way to a laundry or a cafe that you often visit - just specify the addresses in the program line and you will no longer need to enter these data every time. In this case, you can not only view the paved road to the institution, but also familiarize yourself with information that relates to this institution, for example, opening hours, contact information, etc.

Let's use an example to use a map from Google satellite 2020.

1. Go to the website or open the app on your mobile device.
2. You just need to point with the cursor or touch on the touch screen and you can view the details of the area.
3. In order to find out the distance between cities, click on one of them with the right mouse button and select "Measure distance" from the drop-down menu. Now the second point can be specified with the left mouse button. If necessary, the point can be dragged with the mouse to another location, the distance information will be updated.
4. To select the mode "Relief", "Cycle paths", "Traffic" - select the menu sign (three stripes) and press the desired option. If you are using Apple devices, click the diamond with a layer and also the option you want.
5. To take advantage of high quality 3D images, click on the rectangle in the lower left corner. It will say "Satellite", if you need to return to the map mode, press it again.
6. To select Street View mode, drag the yellow man to the desired area of \u200b\u200bthe map, or simply enter the exact location in the query line, preferably with your home address.
7. Google Maps high resolution allows you to view streets in historical mode, i.e. how they have changed over time. To do this, throw the little man to the right place on the map. Select the clock icon and slide the time slider to select the desired date.

Surprising facts about Google Maps

Features and benefits of online maps in real time

Since the early days, Google Maps has been a discovery for all users. They made it possible to look at maps in a new way, to draw attention to this tool in general in a new way. Everyone who went to the Internet back in 2005 sought to immediately use online maps and see their city or country from a satellite.

It seems inconceivable, but today it is possible to view other planets of the solar system in the Google Maps application!

Planets in Google Maps

To do this, go to the web version of the program and maximize the image of the Earth with the mouse wheel. Other planets will appear in the block on the left, which you can select to view. There are all the planets of the solar system and a few more satellites. For example, Callisto is a satellite of Jupiter. True, the images do not allow viewing other planets as closely and in detail as is the case with the Earth.

Google maps from satellite in 2019 will allow you to view the surface of the earth and settlements in excellent quality, which cannot be done using a regular map. When compiling paper and other versions of maps, natural colors, clear outlines of river banks, lakes, colors of land areas and other color schemes are omitted, which makes us poorly oriented. Looking at the desert area on a regular map, one can only guess what kind of vegetation or relief there is. Turning to Google Maps in real time, you can even see the color and shape of the fence at any address on another continent.

5 weird places you see on Google Maps

Satellite map of Russia - high-resolution images taken from space by orbital stations. The image that the user sees consists of many separate images. The high quality of the equipment used at the orbital stations made it possible to achieve the highest quality of the survey. As a result, high-precision high-resolution images are available to us on the screens of mobile devices, PC monitors, the image on which is very accurate and clear.

Satellite map of Russia in real time displays images with high resolution. Almost all Russian cities can be seen on them. By zooming in and out of objects, moving the cursor over individual parts of the map, it will be possible to examine streets, buildings, individual structures and squares. The larger the size of the city, the more detailed the area of \u200b\u200bthe satellite map will be for it.

Satellite map online in real time 2016 - exploring the country together

High resolution satellite maps online 2016 - a set of high-precision images, through which you can study settlements of different sizes at a particular point in time. The user, choosing the object and scale he needs, gets his snapshot at the same time. By choosing the appropriate parameters instead of the "satellite view" mode, you can display the image:

• landscape view;
• schematic representation of Russia, its individual cities;
• satellite view - real image.

Online high-resolution satellite maps of 2015-2016 are the most user-friendly models of interactive card images from the site service. They will allow you to travel across the territory of the entire state, from anywhere in the world. Satellites make it possible to track up-to-date data on the location and condition of those or muddy objects from different settlements of immense Russia.

Many users are interested in online satellite maps, which make it possible to enjoy the view of our planet's favorite places from a bird's eye view. There are a lot of such services on the web, and all of their diversity should not be misleading - most of these sites use the classic API from "Google Maps". However, there are also a number of resources that use their own tools to create high quality satellite maps. In this article, I will talk about the best high resolution satellite maps available online in 2017-2018, and also explain how to use them.

What you need to know about online satellite maps?

When creating satellite maps of the earth's surface, both images from space satellites and photos from special aircraft are usually used, which allow photographing at a bird's-eye flight (250-500 meters).

The satellite maps of the highest resolution created in this way are regularly updated, and usually images from them are no more than 2-3 years old.

Most of the network services do not have the ability to create their own satellite maps. Usually they use maps from other, more powerful services (usually Google Maps). At the same time, at the bottom (or at the top) of the screen, you can find a mention of the copyright of any company to demonstrate these cards.

Viewing satellite maps in real time is now not available for the average user, since such tools are used primarily for military purposes. Users have access to maps, photographs of which were taken over the past months (or even years). It should be understood that any military objects may be deliberately retouched in order to hide them from interested parties.

Let's move on to the description of the services that allow us to enjoy the capabilities of satellite maps.

Google Maps - high resolution view from space

Bing Maps - online satellite maps service

Among the online cartographic services of decent quality, one cannot ignore the service "Bing Maps", which is the brainchild of Microsoft. Like the other resources I have described, this site provides fairly high-quality photographs of surfaces created using satellite and aerial photography.

Bing Maps is one of the most popular mapping services in the United States.

The functionality of the service is similar to the analogs already described above:

At the same time, using the search button, you can determine the online location of a specific satellite, and by clicking on any satellite on the map, you will receive brief information about it (country, size, launch date, and so on).

Conclusion

To display high-resolution satellite maps online, you should use one of the network solutions I have listed. The most popular on a global scale is the Google Maps service, so I recommend using this resource to work with satellite maps online. If you are interested in viewing geolocations on the territory of the Russian Federation, then it is better to use the Yandex.Maps toolkit. The frequency of their updates in the relations of our country surpasses the same frequency from Google Maps.