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 in high quality and in real time (sights of the planet in). At some point, the primacy of the schematic map view was captured by the Open Street Maps application. Where everyone in the know can edit a map in Wikipedia style, but this does not change anything and today Google Maps is the most popular online map service. The popularity of cards from this company ranks first long years because of good quality satellite images in any corner of the planet, even Yandex could not provide such quality in its homeland.
Google Maps online
Google continues to improve its brainchild in the form of visualization 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 with a resolution of 15/30/100 meters per elemental point. Base satellite images in real time was previously updated only in 2013. At that time, the application used images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite, which was also known for introducing some bugs and glitches into the maps. To compare the quality of images taken by different satellites, pay attention to the screenshot 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 earthly objects, but also more natural colors. Representatives of Google announced that about 700 trillion pixels of graphic data were spent on assembling a mosaic of the earth's surface of a new generation. Almost 43 thousand powerful computing machines in the Google cloud worked for a week on gluing together 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 embedded map below and you can find the country, city, and even the route to the museum by entering the desired search parameters. And for mobile devices you can download a special application that is more convenient to use.
To find the way to a laundromat or a cafe that you often visit, simply enter the addresses in the program line and you will no longer need to enter this data every time. At the same time, you can not only view the route to the establishment, but also get acquainted with information that relates to this establishment, for example, opening hours, contact details, etc.
Let's try using Google's satellite map 2018 as an example.
- Go to the website or open the app on your mobile device.
- All you have to do is point your cursor or touch touch screen, and you can view details about that parcel.
- In order to find out the distance between cities, right-click on one of them and select “Measure distance” from the drop-down menu. Now the second point can be specified with the left mouse button. If necessary, you can drag the point with the mouse to another location, and the distance information will be updated.
- To select the “Relief”, “Bike Paths”, “Traffic” mode - select the menu sign (three stripes) and press the desired option. If you are using Apple devices, click on the diamond icon with a layer and also on the desired option.
- To take advantage high quality 3D images, click on the quadrilateral in the lower left corner. It will say "Satellite", if you need to return to map mode, press it again.
- To select Street View, drag the yellow man to the desired area of the map, or simply enter the exact location in the query bar, preferably including your home address.
- 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 onto Right place cards. Select the clock icon and move the time slider to select the desired date.
Amazing Facts About Google Maps
Features and benefits of online maps in real time
From the first days Google Maps became a revelation for all users. They made it possible to look at cards in a new way, to pay new attention to this tool in general. Everyone who accessed the Internet back in 2005 sought to immediately take advantage of online maps and see your city or country from a satellite.
It seems unthinkable, but today it is possible to view other planets solar system in the Google Maps app!
Planets in Google Maps
To do this, go to the web version of the program and zoom out the Earth image with the mouse wheel to the maximum. Other planets will appear in the block on the left that you can select to view. There are all the planets of the solar system and several additional satellites. For example, Callisto is a satellite of Jupiter. True, the photographs do not allow us to look at other planets as closely and in detail as happens with the Earth.
Google Maps from satellite in 2018 will allow you to view the surface of the earth and populated areas in excellent quality, which cannot be done using a regular map. When drawing up paper and other versions of maps, natural colors, clear contours of the banks of rivers, lakes, colors of areas of the earth and other color schemes are omitted, which is why we have poor orientation. Viewing the desert area on regular map one can only guess what kind of vegetation or relief there is. By accessing Google Maps in real time, you can even see the color and shape of the fence at any address on another continent.
What are Google Maps? This is a service that consists of several applications provided for free, and includes the mapping site Google Maps and a route planning program (Google Transit). Google Maps offers satellite views for many cities around the world and includes detailed diagram location of streets, houses, travel routes public transport or a car, a guide to various objects, etc.
Features of work
Google Maps is displayed in two variations:
- an ordinary traditional map (analogous to Mercator maps)
- and satellite images (not online, but taken a certain time ago).
The scale of the maps is also based on the Mercator projection, that is, it is constant and changes from the poles to the equator downwards.
Another separate project of the corporation is closely related to Google Maps - Google Planet, which corresponds to a globe on which the regions of the Earth's poles are clearly visible.
What locations are satellite imagery available for? Not for everyone, but only for large cities in Russia, England, America, Canada and others.
Not all governments have approved such placement and use of images (since the placement of some objects that are clearly visible on maps can be used by terrorists to plan and carry out attacks).
That is why many objects on maps are shaded. Such “classified” objects include, for example, The White house or the Capitol.
Different places on satellite images are shown in different resolutions - the less populated the area, the less detailed it is. Also, some places in the pictures may be hidden due to cloud shadows.
Google Maps online
- switch to satellite mode- lower left corner;
- zoom in/out- lower right corner.
As soon as the company introduced the new service, a wave of interest in satellite images swept across the world.
The creation of websites began on which satellite images began to be freely available interesting places, unusual architectural landmarks, stadiums, man-made formations. Since 2008, the US Weather Service began using Google Maps to prepare its forecasts.
It should be noted that not all images were taken from satellites - most of the images were obtained through aerial photography from a height of 300 meters.
Online google maps Maps uses JavaScript quite extensively. As the user moves around the map by dragging it, new areas are downloaded from the server and displayed on the page.
If the user is looking for specific objects, the search result is inserted into the sidebar, and the page itself does not require a reload. The location on the map is displayed dynamically through a red marker icon.
- In 2006 year the first version for mobile phones, and in 2007 a second version appeared. A service similar to GPS is used to determine the location of the phone.
- In 2008 year Google Maps could be used for Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, BlackBerry, Java (from 2+), IOS (Apple), Palm OS (Centro+).
- In 2011 In 2018, the corporation announced that it provides mapping services to more than 150 million customers.
To allow owners of third-party sites to use Maps, Google announced in 2005 free service API (Application Programming Interface) cards.
The map can be placed on any website using this technology for interaction software. Today there are more than 350 thousand such sites around the world.
The frame shows the islands that make up Venice and the Venetian Lagoon that surrounds them. The image was taken on June 22, 2008 from the commercial satellite Ikonos-2.
The photo shows the extraordinary landscape of the Tanezrouft Desert, one of the most uninhabited parts of the Sahara in southern Algeria. The image was taken on June 24, 2009 from the advanced Japanese ALOS satellite.
Photo: JAXA, ESA
Fertile farmland in the Imperial Valley of Southern California, USA, imaged on July 4, 2010 by the ALOS 4-ton Earth observation satellite.
Photo: ESA, 2009
A plankton bloom in the Barents Sea off the northern coast of Europe, captured by the Envisat satellite on August 19, 2009.
Photo: ESA
The Jurua River (a right tributary of the Amazon) meanders through the Amazon rain forest in western Brazil. The image was compiled from three frames received from the Envisat satellite on January 2, February 1 and March 3, 2012.
Photo: ESA
This Envisat satellite image shows snow clouds blanketing the North Sea and sweeping down toward the strait between Denmark (bottom right) and Norway (top center). In the upper right, a more massive cluster of clouds covers southeastern Norway and extends over Sweden. Part of the Danish Jutland Peninsula is visible in the lower right corner.
Photo: KARI/ESA
The image was taken on November 24, 2012 by the Kompsat-2 satellite. Before you is the Mangistau region in the southwest of Kazakhstan, east of the Caspian Sea. The road network in the lower left of the image is the Karakuduk oil field. White squares in the “web” indicate oil wells.
Photo: KARI/ESA
The Kompsat-2 satellite captured rolling hills of farmland in the northwestern United States.
Photo: European Space Agency
In this Envisat satellite image, the Ganges River delta in southern Asia is visible in the foreground. It is also the largest delta in the world.
Photo: USGS/ESA
This artificially colored image was received on May 4, 2012 from the Geological Survey satellite LandSat-5. The arable agricultural lands of the American state of Kansas are divided into circles and rectangles due to the different types of irrigation systems used.
Photo: ESA
The massive iceberg in the center of the image broke off from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland in August 2010. The Envisat satellite captured this image on May 4, 2011. From late May to late June, more than 1,000 icebergs flock into the southern part of the Labrador Sea, which is why the place is called “Iceberg Alley.”
Photo: JAXA, ESA
Deep in the Sahara Desert, in southeastern Libya, lies the Al Jaf oasis, depicted in this image from Japan's ALOS satellite. The city can be seen in the upper left corner. The two parallel lines are the runways of Kufra Airport.
Photo: KARI/ESA
The Korean satellite Kompsat-2 captured this image of southern and central Romania on January 2, 2013.
Photo: ESA
Most of Siberia, which is visible in the photo, lies above the Arctic Circle. This is also a permafrost region. In the lower left corner stands out the Yenisei River, which flows north into the Kara Sea. Photo taken by Envisat satellite on March 5, 2012.
Photo: European Space Imaging (EUSI)
The image from the Ikonos-2 satellite shows golden waves of sand from the Dasht-e Kavir (Great Salt Desert), northern Iran.
Photo: USGS/ESA
The image was taken by the LandSat satellite on October 3, 2011. This is the delta of the Mississippi River, the largest river in the United States, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
Photo: KARI
This image captures the agricultural landscapes of the Spanish autonomous regions of Aragon and Catalonia.
World map from satellite
A very interesting sight is a map of the world observed from a satellite. Her appearance is completely different from what we usually see when looking at geographical map. A satellite map looks more like a photograph because it has no boundary markers.
Google maps
It does not resemble the maps we are used to - neither physical nor geographical. But if you wish, you can bring the image of a world map from a satellite into a form that is familiar to us. This work was performed by the Google service, thereby making more convenient to use satellite maps. Moreover, he made the image interactive, allowing users to work with it online by displaying it on the monitor.
Working with such a map is not difficult; using the map control panel you can change the scale, zooming in or out of the image. The high resolution of Google Maps makes it possible to plot the best transport routes, find hotels, restaurants, cinemas, and so on.
The resource displays traffic jams in big cities, as well as, if necessary, the terrain. With Google you can access a unique view of individual streets. To do this, just press the button depicting a little man at the bottom right. And if you click on the show photos button, you will see available photos the place you are looking for.
Google world map from satellite online:
(You can zoom in and out of the map using the + and - signs)
Yandex maps
Yandex is not far behind Google, providing users with its own version of maps, which can also be worked with online. Unlike Google, Yandex maps have a much higher level of detail on Russian territory.
Since the maps of such services are satellite photographs, they may sometimes not be up-to-date. To avoid serious mistakes, Yandex, for example, in 2018 updates its maps every 2 weeks.
On the Yandex Maps service, you can use several ways to work with a document:
- move cards;
- increase their size;
- measure distances on it;
- pave the way;
- find a country, city, street, house;
- see the state of traffic on city streets, both current (traffic jams) and future prospects.
The user has three options for displaying maps, they are named:
- schematic layer;
- satellite layer;
- hybrid (this is satellite, supplemented with inscriptions).
You can use any of the services, not forgetting that information on Russia is better displayed by Yandex due to the higher frequency of updates. And on a global scale, it is better to use Google maps made in high resolution.
But you can look at such a map from a satellite on the Yandex Maps service.
World map from satellite from Yandex maps online:
(Use + and – to change the map scale)
Created using Yandex.Maps tools
Now, any point in the world can be seen from a satellite and perhaps soon we will be able to observe the earth in real time, around the clock. Given the pace of development of mapping services, this should happen in the near future.
Satellite maps from Google are popular. This is a convenient and practical tool that allows you to view the planet at any scale. The satellite image reveals details: small streets and alleys near the house, cities, countries and continents. This became possible thanks to satellite imagery.
Earlier to receive pictures from space filming was used with a television camera with a signal transmitted to the station or filming with a special photographic camera, the images of which were displayed on film. Today, modern space technologies make it possible to look at the planet thanks to the scanning mechanism built into satellites.
Satellite Map: Applications and Purposes
Currently, real-time satellite world map is used in many fields: analyzing the state of agricultural fields, forests, oceans and identifying the location of friends using a smartphone. Google satellite map is used for these resources.
The main purpose of using satellite images of the world from Google remains navigation. The website features a world diagram showing continents, states, cities, streets and highways. This helps you navigate the area, appreciate its landscape, and simply travel around the Earth without leaving your home.
Quality of online world map images from satellite
The highest resolution images are available for the largest cities in Ukraine, America, Russia, Belarus, Asia, Europe and Oceania with a population of more than a million people. For settlements with fewer inhabitants, images are available in limited quantities and worse quality.
Despite this, everyone can take a detailed look at the territory of their home, nearby streets, and look at photos of the planet from almost any point. The pictures reveal the placement:
- cities, towns, villages,
- streets, alleys
- rivers, seas, lakes, forest zones, deserts, etc.
Good quality cartographic images allow you to examine the landscape of the selected area in detail.
Google map capabilities from satellite:
Google satellite maps help you see things in detail that are difficult to assess on regular charts. Satellite images preserve the natural shape of an object, its size and colors. Before printing and circulation, ordinary, classic maps undergo editorial elaboration to match the scale, as a result of which the natural colors of the area and the shapes of objects are lost. The cartographic images retain their naturalness.
In addition, you can quickly find the city of interest in any country on the map. The diagram has a column in which you can indicate the country, city, and even house number in Russian. In a second, the diagram will zoom in and display the location of the given object and those located next to it.
Satellite world map mode
Satellite images have the ability to switch to world map mode. It helps to view the territory on the surface of the planet, get as close as possible to the selected object, and consider the layout of the location. This mode allows you to quickly and conveniently plan your trip route, move around the city, find attractions, etc.
By specifying the house number, the diagram will display its location relative to the city center in a second. It is also possible to plot a route from the initially specified object. To do this, click on the appropriate button and enter the address.
Map of the earth from satellite to website
the site allows users to use a satellite map in real time completely free of charge. For convenience, the map is divided into countries. To search for a specific city or get acquainted with the area of the state, click on the one you are interested in and begin your “travel”. The service is constantly improving, work is underway to post high-resolution satellite images of small settlements.
Good quality online satellite cartographic images posted on our website help you quickly find the desired object, examine the landscape, estimate the distances between cities, and find out the location of forests, rivers, seas and oceans. With Voweb, traveling around the world has become even more accessible.