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Google Maps. - This is the leader among modern cartographic services that provide satellite interactive cards online. At least leader in the field satellite pictures and by the number of diverse additional services and tools (Google Earth, Google Mars, a variety of weather and transport services, one of the most powerful APIs).

In the field of schematic cards at some point, the leadership was "missed" in favor of Open Street Maps - a unique cartographic service in the Spirit of Wikipedia, where each volunteer can make data on the site.

However, despite this, the popularity of Google's cards remains one of the highest of all other cartographic services. Partly 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 countries. Even in Russia, such a large and successful company as Yandex. can not surpass quality and coating satellite photosgraize at least in your country.

With Google maps, anyone can watch satellite photographs of the Earth for free almost anywhere in the world.

Quality of pictures

Pictures of the highest permission are usually available for the largest cities in the world in America, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Asia, Oceania. Currently, high-quality pictures are available for cities with a population of more than 1 million inhabitants. For less major cities and other settlements Satellite images are available only in limited resolution.

Capabilities

Google Maps or Google Maps were a real discovery for Internet users. And in general, all users of PC giving a unheard and unprecedented earlier opportunity to look at their home, to their village, cottage, lake or a river where they rested in the summer - from the satellite. To see it from above, with such an angle, with what it was impossible to see any other circumstances. Opening, the very idea to give people. Easy access to satellite photographs harmoniously fits into the overall concept of Google "Easy provision of access to all users to any information on the planet."

Google maps allow you to see from the satellite at the same time those things and objects that, when observing from the Earth, it is simultaneously not possible. Satellite cards differ from the usual because simple maps Colors and natural shapes of natural objects are distorted by editorial recycling for further publication. However, in satellite photographs, all the naturalness of nature and objects of shooting, natural colors, forms of lakes, rivers, fields and forests are preserved.

Looking at the map you can only guess what: a forest, a field or swamp, while on satellite photos it is immediately clear: objects are usually a round or oval form of a unique marsh color and there is a swamp. Light green spots or areas in photography - fields, and dark green - forests. With sufficient experience of orientation in Google Maps - you can even distinguish the coniferous forest or mixed: coniferous has a more brown shade. The same on the map you can distinguish specific broken lines piercing forests and fields of immense Russian expanses - this railways. Only looking from the satellite you can understand that the railways are much more road roads affect the environment of their natural landscape. The same in Google maps there is an opportunity to impose on a satellite image of the terrain or city map with the name of the areas, roads, settlements on the scale of the country and the name of the streets, houses, metro stations in the city's scale.

Map mode and satellite mode

In addition to satellite images, it is possible to switch to "Map" mode, in which it is possible to view any territory on the surface of the PPP Earth in detail to study the layout and the location of houses of any more or less large city. In the "Map" mode, it is especially convenient to plan movements in the city. If you have already seen the satellite species of your city.

Search function by home with ease will indicate you on needed Home Giving the opportunity to "look" the territory around this house and how to drive up / approach it. For search necessary object It is enough to dial in Russian in the search string. Request Quit: "City, Street, House number" and the site will display you a special marker location of the object you desired.

How to use Google Maps

To begin with, open some place.

To move on the map, click on the left mouse button on the map and drag it in any order. To return to the initial position, press the centering button between the four directions buttons.

To enlarge the map - click on the button "+" Or twist the mouse roller when the cursor is over the card. Increase the map you can also double-click Mice in the place of interest.

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

Google Maps service (Cards Google) - One of the most powerful mapping services in the world. Its ability to enjoy satellite images of the surface of our planet. More use opportunities interactive mapIt is easy to pave a convenient route from point A to point B, get current information about automobile traffic jams and much more. In this case, 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 "white spots", I will tell you about Google maps, which are available online in real time and excellent quality, and explain in detail how to enjoy their capabilities.

We study the functionality online service "Google Maps"

Capabilities of the map service map Google

"Google Maps" - This is a web service providing detailed visual information on geographic regions and places around the world. In addition to displaying the conventional road map, the service also offers air and satellite pictures Different places, there are pictures made using various vehicles.


 It looks like this, the start screen of the service "Google MAPS" looks like

"Google Map" includes several popular services:

  • The route scheduler offers the creation of routes for drivers and pedestrians who want to get from point A to the point b;
  • API "Google Maps" makes it possible to insert cards from Google Cards to various sites;
  • Overview of Google Street (Google Street View) Allows users to view the streets of various cities in the world, virtually moving on them;
  • Google cards for mobile platforms Offer GPS Navigation mobile devices To position the user on the map;
  • Auxiliary services offer image of moon, mars, clouds, etc. For astronomers and just amateurs.

To start working with Google maps to the full screen Run the service google.ru/maps. . You will find a schematic map of the world (depending on the user's location, usually this is a map of Europe).

Instructions for using the map from Google

Google Maps service interface looks like this:


Additional options in the menu item

Also in the Google Map menu panel, which opens by pressing the menu button on the left above, the following useful options are presented:

  • « Satellite"- switches to the photographic map display mode created using photos from the satellite. Re-pressing on this option switches the map back to the schematic mode;
  • « Traffic jams"- shows currently actual traffic jams in major cities. The color gradation from the green to the red shows the speed of traffic in the specified traffic jams;
  • « Transport"- allows you to display the schematics of the movement of public transport in the right place;
  • « Relief"- will make it possible to display relief of this area
  • « Geodata transmission"- allows people to follow the location of each other using Google MAPS;
  • « My places"- allows you to move between the places you added to the Google MAPS service;
  • « Your impressions"- will allow you to add any text impression of any of the places on the map (as well as attach photos of this place).

Activate the view of Google Card from the satellite

The display of Google cards using satellite photos is one of the most popular forms of working with the Google Card service. It allows you to enjoy the type of the desired geographical location created by satellite images, as well as snapshots from special devices operating at the height of bird flight (from 240 to 460 meters).

The obtained photographs are regularly updated (their age is not more than 3 years). They enable each user to enjoy the kind of desired places from the satellite, visually pave the most comfortable way from one place to another, and so on.


Google Planet Earth - allows you to enjoy high resolution images

Among the features of the service "Google Maps" there is a "Google Planet Earth" service. In addition to technology already known satellite surfaces of the surface globe, Google Planet Earth allows you to view the 3D images of many colorful places, while the photo of some well-known tourist objects have the highest permission.

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


Conclusion

Google Maps service allows you to view satellite maps Real-time free and use various navigation forms for laying a user-friendly route. At the same time, the competitors of Google MAPS - Yandex.Maps, Bing Maps, Apple Maps and other analogues generally inferior to google cards both in the coating and general functionality. Therefore, we recommend using Google cards to search and visual viewing of the geographical object you need.

What are Google maps? This is a service that consists of several applications provided for free and includes a Google Maps cartographic site and a program for a route laying (Google Transit). Cards from Google offer a view from a satellite for very many cities of the planet and include a detailed location scheme of streets, houses, travel paths public transport or car, reference book on various objects and so on.

Features of work

Google Maps Map is displayed in two variations:

  • conventional Traditional Card (Analog Mercator Cards)
  • and pictures from the satellite (not online, but made a certain time ago).

The scale of the cards is also based on the projection of the Mercator, that is, it is constant and varies from the poles to the equator towards the decrease.

With Google MAPS, another separate project of the Corporation is closely connected - Google Planet, corresponding to the globe, which is clearly visible to the region of the Earth's poles.

For what seats are satellite images offered? Not for everyone, but only for large cities of Russia, England, America, Canada and others.

Not all governments approved such placement and use of shots. That is why many objects on maps are shaded. Such "classified" objects refers, for example, a white house or capitol.

Different places on satellite images are given in different resolution - the area is less populated, the less it is detailed. Also, some places in the pictures can be hidden due to the shadow of the clouds.

Google online cards

  • switch to satellite mode - lower left corner;
  • increment / decrease - Lower right corner.

Untime, the company presented a new service, a wave of interest in the satellite pictures rolled around the world.

The creation of sites on which satellite shots began to be located in free access interesting places, unusual architectural attractions, stadiums, anthropogenic formations.

Since 2008, the US meteorological service has become used to prepare its forecasts of the Google map.

It should be noted that not all images are made from the satellite - most of the pictures are obtained by aerial photography from a height from 300 meters.

Online google maps Maps are widely used by JavaScript. When the user moves around the map, dragging it, the new plots are loaded from the server and displayed on the page.

If the user is looking for specific objects, the search result is inserted on the sidebar, and the page itself does not require a reboot. The location on the map is displayed dynamically through the red marker icon.

  • In 2006. year appeared the first version for mobile phonesAnd in 2007 the second version appeared. To determine the location of the phone, a service similar to GPS is used.
  • In 2008. yearMaps Google It was possible to apply for android, Windows Mobile, Simbian, Blackbey, Java (from 2+), IOS (Apple), Palm OS (Centro +).
  • In 2011. The Corporation announced that it provides a cartographic service of more than 150 million customers.

For third-party owners can use Maps, Google announced a free API card service in 2005 (Application Programming Interface).

Map can be placed on any site using this technology to interact. software. To date, more than 350 thousand such sites around the world.