Satellite images on Yandex. Google Maps (Google maps)

Google Maps service (Google Maps) is one of the most powerful mapping services in the world. Its capabilities allow you to enjoy satellite images of the surface of our planet. You can also use the interactive map, easily plot a convenient route from point A to point B, get up-to-date information about traffic jams and much more. At the same time, not all users are fully familiar with the capabilities of this service, which in a certain way prevents its full use. This material is designed to eliminate such “blank spots”; in it I will talk about Google maps, which are available online in real time and in excellent quality, and I will explain in detail how to use their capabilities.

Studying the functionality online service Google Maps

Google Maps is a web service that provides detailed visual information about geographic regions and places around the world. In addition to displaying a conventional road map, the service also offers aerial and satellite imagery various places, there are pictures taken using various vehicles.

« Google Map» includes several popular services:

• The route planner offers the creation of routes for drivers and pedestrians who want to get from point A to point B;
• The Google Maps API makes it possible to insert maps from Google Maps into various websites;
• Google Street View (Google Street View) allows users to view the streets of various cities around the world, virtually moving through them;
• Google Maps for mobile platforms offers the use of GPS navigation of mobile devices to position the user on the map;
• Ancillary services offer images of the Moon, Mars, clouds, etc. for astronomers and just amateurs.

To start working with Google maps in full screen, launch the service google.ru/maps. A schematic map of the world will open in front of you (depending on the user’s location, usually this is a map of Europe).

Instructions for using Google maps

The Google Maps service interface looks like this:

Additional options in the Menu item

Also in the Google Maps menu bar, which opens by clicking the menu button at the top left, the following useful options are presented:

• « Satellite» - switches to photographic map display mode created using satellite photos. Clicking this option again switches the map back to schematic mode;
• « Traffic jams» - shows current ones on this moment traffic jams in major cities. The color gradation from green to red shows the speed of traffic in the indicated traffic jams;
• « Transport» — allows you to display a diagram of public transport movement in the right place;
• « Relief» – will allow you to display the relief of a given area
• « Transfer of geodata» - allows people to track each other's location using Google Maps;
• « My places» — allows you to navigate between places you added in the Google Maps service;
• « Your impressions» - will allow you to add any text impression about any of the places on the map (as well as attach a photo of this place).

Activating Google Maps satellite view

Displaying Google maps using satellite photos is one of the most popular forms of working with the Google Maps service. It allows you to enjoy the view of the desired geographical location, created using satellite images, as well as images from special devices operating at bird's eye height (from 240 to 460 meters).

The resulting photographs are regularly updated (their age is no more than 3 years). They allow every user to enjoy the view the right places from a satellite, visually lay out the most convenient road from one place to another, and so on.

Google Earth - allows you to enjoy high-resolution images

Among the capabilities of the Google Maps service is the Google Earth service. In addition to the technology of the already known satellite surface mapping globe, Google Earth allows you to view 3D images of many colorful places, while photos of some famous tourist sites have the highest resolution.

A special feature of this service is also two, in our opinion, main functions:

Conclusion

The Google Maps service allows you to both view satellite maps in real time for free and use various forms navigation to create a user-friendly route. At the same time, Google Maps' competitors - Yandex.Maps, Bing Maps, Apple Maps and other analogs are generally inferior to Google maps both in coverage area and in general functionality. Therefore, we recommend using Google maps to search and visually view the geographic location you need.

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 big cities 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 are taken from a satellite - most of images were obtained through aerial photography from a height of 300 meters.

Google Maps online maps make fairly extensive use of JavaScript. 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 via 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 a free Maps API (Application Programming Interface) service.

The map can be placed on any website using this technology for software interaction. Today there are more than 350 thousand such sites around the world.

A satellite map of the world allows you to quickly navigate across the planet between any settlements. Detailed map world from satellite in Russian:

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

You can zoom in on the online map, 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. You can move it with the mouse interactive map in all directions by using the left mouse button to grab any place on the map.

Interactive world map online is a very convenient and modern guide for exploring the city, its districts and attractions, hotels, places of recreation and entertainment. Online map world can become an indispensable assistant for you in independent travel. Interactive map provided by Google Maps.

How satellite maps of the world are created:

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

What to see on the world map from satellite:

First of all, people look on the map for their country, their hometown, the street and the house in which they live. To do this, you can zoom in on the schematic map of the world to your city, and then turn on the “Satellite” mode in the lower left corner of the map. In exactly the same way, you can travel around all countries of the world online, exploring the sights of countries and cities in real time. Popular places that are often searched on satellite map: Reichstag in Berlin (Germany), Acropolis of Athens 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 - a symbol of America, Eiffel Tower in Paris (France), Great Wall of China.

Map of Russia from satellite there's so much in this sentence!
And if you are interested Real-time satellite view?
A long time ago, we got used to the process of globalization and the Internet.
We can communicate with anyone through the World Wide Web.
But not so long ago, progress in this direction has stepped forward.
In this article you will find map of Russia from satellite in real time online
(you can also find any cities on the map, for example) and a map of Russian webcams.

If you want to view Planet Earth in REAL TIME as if from a satellite, use Google Earth provided below.
To zoom in and out, use the mouse wheel. If you don't have Google Earth, you will be prompted to do this. If you are logged in through the Opera browser, viewing is impossible. This is best done in Firefox and Google Chrome browsers.

Enter any object you are interested in in the window and click “Forward!”:

The dream of many science fiction writers about a “videophone”, such as the Strugatsky brothers, for example, has come true. Now Russia is accessible in real time to anyone with access to the Internet. We can communicate with each other not just by sending messages to a faceless person on the other side of the monitor, but also see and hear him.

Live communication is difficult to overestimate. And that's great. Now, having bought a web camera, anyone can show themselves to the whole world and their compatriots in particular. Still, it’s much more pleasant to communicate in your native language than to try to translate foreign language in online mode. This is no longer given to everyone. Russia in real time- a miracle of science and technology.

By opening a site like the one below, for example, anyone can see another city, see what is happening now several thousand kilometers away.
Now distance is not an obstacle to communication. We can find everything Russian webcams, connect to this broadcast and observe, listen, talk and convey your emotions to your interlocutor. I think everyone agrees that webcams are great!

And another way to see the view from a satellite in live, this is a wonderful program for displaying a complete three-dimensional model of our planet, you can even see the terrain, the mountains are high, the water in the seas is swaying, and special cultural monuments are presented in Google Planet mode. If you don't have Google Earth, you will be prompted to do this. If you are logged in through the Opera browser, viewing is impossible. This is best done in Firefox and Google Chrome browsers.

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What are the possible uses satellites flying over our heads in real time You know?

We can simply observe them, we can use them to calculate coordinates and obtain images of the area.

In addition to the static satellite map of the Earth presented above, you can use the service or this interactive map to view:

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)

Google Earth Maps also provides the opportunity for virtual travel to any corner of the world.

(To move around the map, zoom in, out of the map, change the image angle, use the navigation in the form of arrows and + and – signs at the top of the map. Also try to control the map by holding the right mouse button)

Enter the name of the city:

You can watch the Earth in real time from a satellite! You can find out more about this in our article “”

The capabilities of satellites today are simply fantastic. It turns out that there is another equally interesting activity - satellite fishing!
If you have:
1) Satellite dish
2) Computer DVB tuner (DVB-PCI tuner, DVB card)
Then you can go fishing. But what can we catch and what is the point?

And the meaning is this - when sending a request to issue (download) a file, you send a request to a special server, and the answer comes via satellite to the receiving dish. One person sends a request, but anyone can accept it, because the satellite does not know where a specific user is and transmits information to everyone who falls within its coverage area. In order to receive the file, you need special card for receiving signal from. The card has unique number, by which the satellite identifies the recipient, allowing it to receive discrete data. In turn, the “fisherman” catches the entire stream, all the user information from some provider. To catch something worthwhile from this stream, you need special grabber programs that have filters where you can specify file extensions, size, etc. The only thing is that grabbers identify a file not by extension, but by the file signature, so you will additionally need to download codes with filters. You will also need renaming programs to sort files into directories, remove unnecessary ones and clones.
Who knows, maybe you will be able to catch something “big” or stumble upon information from the “Top secret” section, which will bring a little romance and adventurous notes into your life.