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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 (landmarks of the planet). At some point, the primacy of the schematic view of the maps was taken over by the application "Open Street Maps". Where everyone in the know can edit a map in the style of Wikipedia, but this does not 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 was unable to provide such quality in its homeland.

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Quality Google Maps Satellite Images in 2020

Google continues to improve its creation in the form of the visualization of our planet, improving the quality and detail of surfaces. More recently, the company has improved its services using new satellite Landsat 8, which can photograph the surface of the planet Earth with a resolution of 15/30/100 meters per elementary point. Base satellite imagery in real time 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 detailing 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 of mosaics of the earth's surface. Almost 43 thousand of the most powerful computers in the Google cloud worked 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 a tablet, mobile phone or a 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 details, 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 click the desired option. If you are using Apple devices, click the diamond with a layer and also on 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 ​​the 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.

Amazing facts about Google Maps

Features and benefits of online maps in real time

From the first days Google maps became 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 wanted to immediately use online cards and see your city or country from the 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 of their 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 satellite maps 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

Google maps is a leader among modern map services providing satellite interactive maps online. At least the leader in the field of satellite imagery and in the number of various additional services and tools (Google Earth, Google Mars, various weather and transport services, one of the most powerful APIs).

In the area of ​​schematic maps, at some point this leadership was "lost" in favor of Open Street Maps, a unique mapping service in the spirit of Wikipedia, where every volunteer can enter data on the site.

However, despite this, the popularity of Google Maps remains perhaps one of the highest of all other mapping services. Part of the reason is that it is in Google Maps that we can find the most detailed satellite photos for the most extensive regions of any country. Even in Russia, such a large and successful company as Yandex Can't beat quality and coverage satellite photos graphs at least in their own country.

With Google Maps, anyone can view satellite images of the Earth for free almost anywhere in the world.

Image quality

Images of the highest resolution are usually available for the largest cities in the world in America, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Asia, Oceania. High quality imagery is currently available for cities with more than 1 million inhabitants. For smaller cities and other localities, satellite imagery is only available in limited resolution.

Capabilities

Google Maps or "Google Maps" were a real discovery for Internet users and indeed for all PC users, giving an unheard-of and previously unheard-of opportunity to look at their home, their village, cottage, lake or river where they had a rest in summer - from a satellite. To see it from above, from such an angle, from which it would be impossible to look under any other circumstances. The discovery, the very idea of ​​giving people easy access to satellite photos, fits in harmoniously with Google's general concept of "making it easy for all users to access any information on the planet."

Google maps allow you to see from the satellite at the same time those things and objects that cannot be observed simultaneously when observing from the ground. Satellite maps differ from ordinary maps in that simple maps colors and natural forms of natural objects are distorted by editorial processing for further publication. However, satellite photographs preserve all the naturalness of nature and objects of photography, natural colors, shapes of lakes, rivers, fields and forests.

Looking at the map, one can only guess what is there: a forest, a field or a swamp, while on a satellite photo it is immediately clear: objects, as a rule, of a round or oval shape, of a unique swamp color, are swamps. Light green spots or areas in the photo are fields, and dark greens are forests. With sufficient experience in navigating Google Maps, you can even distinguish between coniferous forest or mixed: coniferous has a brownish tint. Also on the map you can distinguish specific broken lines piercing forests and fields of immense Russian expanses - this is railways... Only looking from the satellite can one understand that the railways are much larger. highways affect the natural landscape around them. Also in Google Maps it is possible to superimpose maps with the names of regions, roads, settlements on a national scale and the names of streets, house numbers, metro stations on a city scale on a satellite image of a terrain or city.

Map Mode and Satellite View Mode

In addition to satellite images, it is possible to switch to the "map" mode, in which it is possible to view any territory on the Earth's surface, and to study in detail the layout and location of houses of any more or less large city. In the "map" mode, it is especially convenient to plan your movements around the city if you have already seen enough satellite views of your city.

The house number search function will easily point you to desired home giving the opportunity to "look around" the area around this house and how to drive up / approach it. For search required object just type in Russian in the search bar a query of the form: "City, street, house number" and the site will display the location of the object you are looking for with a special marker.

How to use Google Maps

First, open a place.

To move around the map, left-click on the map and drag it in any order. To return to the original position, press the centering button located between the four directional buttons.

To enlarge the map - click on the button "+" or roll the mouse wheel when the cursor is over the map. You can also enlarge the map double click mouse in the place of interest.

To switch between satellite, mixed (hybrid) and map views, use the corresponding buttons in the upper right corner of the map: Map / Satellite / Hybrid.

Several applications can be used to monitor the Earth's surface and view satellite images online for free. In Russia, the most popular are two of them: Google Maps and Yandex Maps. Both services boast good quality high-resolution satellite imagery of most countries.

Yandex Maps is an online application from Russian developers, so the cities of Russia are more accurately worked out in it. It has built-in functionality for viewing traffic load data (large settlements), demographic and geodata. Google maps contain no less high-quality satellite images of the territory of the Russian Federation, but data on land plots and traffic are available only for the United States.

View a map of Planet Earth from the satellite online

Below you can see the built-in map from Google. For more stable operation of the plugin, we recommend using the Google Chrome browser. If you see an error message, please update the specified plugin and then reload the page.

Watch Google Earth from satellite, in real time online:

Another advantage of Google Maps is the presence of a client application for working with satellite images. This means that the service can be accessed not only through a browser, but also through a pre-downloaded program. It has much more opportunities for viewing and studying satellite images, working with a three-dimensional virtual globe.

3D satellite map from Google (downloadable application, not online version) allows you to:

• use a quick search for the desired objects by name or coordinates;
• take screenshots and record high quality videos;
• work offline (preliminary synchronization via the Internet is required);
• use a flight simulator for more convenient movement between objects;
• save "favorite places" to quickly move between them;
• view not only the Earth's surface, but also pictures of other celestial bodies (Mars, Moon, etc.).

You can work with Google satellite maps through a client application or a browser. A plugin is available on the official page of the program that allows you to use interactive map on any web resource. It is enough to embed its address into the program code of the site. For display, you can select both the entire surface and a specific area (you will have to enter coordinates). Control - using a computer mouse and keyboard (ctrl + mouse wheel to zoom, cursor to move) or using the icons marked on the map ("plus" - zoom in, "minus" - zoom out, move with the cursor).

Google Earth's service in real time allows you to work with several types of maps, each of which reflects certain data on satellite images. It is convenient to switch between them "without losing progress" (the program remembers where you "were"). Available view modes:

• satellite landscape map (geographic objects, features of the Earth's surface);
• physical map(detailed satellite images of the surface, cities, streets, their names);
• schematic geographic map for a more accurate study of surface images.

The satellite image is automatically uploaded in the vicinity, so a stable Internet connection is required for operation. For work Google planet Land offline you need to download an app for Windows or other operating system... For its operation, the Internet is also required, but only for the first launch, after which the program synchronizes all the necessary data (satellite images of the surface, 3D models of buildings, names of geographical and other objects) after which it will be possible to work with the received data without direct access to the Internet.

Service "Google Maps" (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 capabilities of 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 intended to eliminate such "blind spots", in it I will talk about Google maps that are available online in real time and of excellent quality, and explain in detail how to use their capabilities.

We study the functionality online service"Google Maps"

Features of the Google Maps mapping service

"Google Maps" Is a web service that provides detailed visual information about geographic regions and locations around the world. In addition to displaying a conventional road map, the service also offers air and satellite imagery different locations, there are pictures taken with different vehicles.

This is what the start screen of the Google Maps service looks like.

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 to various sites;
• Google Street View (Google Street View) allows users to view the streets of different cities in the world, virtually navigating through them;
• Google Maps for mobile platforms offer the use of GPS navigation of mobile devices for positioning the user on the map;
• Ancillary services offer images of the Moon, Mars, clouds, etc. for astronomers and amateurs.

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

Instructions for using the map from Google

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 on the top left, the following useful options are presented:

• « Satellite»- switches to the photographic map display mode, created using satellite photos. Pressing this option again switches the map back to schematic mode;
• « Traffic jams"- shows current traffic jams in large cities... Color gradation from green to red shows the speed of traffic in the specified traffic jams;
• « Transport"- allows to display the motion schematic public transport in the right place;
• « Relief"- will allow to display the relief of a given area
• « Geodata transfer"- allows people to track each other's whereabouts using Google Maps;
• « My places"- allows you to navigate between the places you added in the Google Maps service;
• « Your impressions"- will allow you to add any textual impression about any of the places on the map (as well as attach a photo of this place).

Activating the satellite view of Google Maps

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

The received photographs are regularly updated (their age is no more than 3 years). They enable each user to enjoy the view of the desired places from the satellite, visually lay the most convenient road from one place to another, and so on.

Google Earth - lets you enjoy high-resolution imagery

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

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

Conclusion

Service "Google Maps" (Google Maps) allows you to how to view satellite maps in real time for free, and use various forms of navigation to plot a user-friendly route. At the same time, the competitors of Google Maps are Yandex.Maps, Bing maps"," Apple Maps "and other analogs are generally inferior to maps from Google both in coverage area and in general functionality. Therefore, we recommend using Google maps to search and visually view the geographic object you need.

Google Maps Is a collection of applications built on the basis of a free mapping service and technologies provided by Google.

Google World Map
(The map can be enlarged to see the names of countries and cities, roads, rivers, lakes, mountains, reserves and other natural objects, and the map can also be moved with the mouse in different directions)

Service Google Maps is an interactive map of the world, which presents personalized maps and information about local businesses and companies, including information about the location of businesses, contact information, driving directions, etc. The service is also associated with an application Google Earth - Google planet earthI... Google Earth Maps also provides the ability to explore maps of any corner of the world.

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

Enter the name of the city:

This is a separate program for Microsoft Windows as well as GNU / Linux, Mac OS. Just like Google Maps.
Program Google earth allows you to view pictures the earth's surface, zoom in and out, and build travel routes. Also, to view Google Maps, use one of the following methods:

• Browsing a web page with an embedded google map.
• View Google Maps on a mobile device.
• View a personal map created with Google Earth

Google Street View

For example, in the window presented below, you can make virtual walk around the city of Moscow using Google Street View. Use the navigation arrows in the upper left corner of the image. You can also change the viewing angle using the arrows on the keyboard. To move around the picture, you can click in the image area. Arrows on the streets of the city show routes. You can change your position on the city map by dragging the yellow man in the lower right corner of the image with the mouse:

Google Street View allows users to Google maps travel along a three-dimensional projection of the city or some of its streets without leaving your home. This functionality is achieved using circular photographing of real terrain with special equipment in real time. As a result, a 3D photograph is created, which is a photographically accurate model of the city. And if you want to stroll through such megacities as New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Barcelona and Prague without leaving your home, then be sure to visit our articles.