Look at old Google maps. Two Google maps. Google Street View - street view in Google Maps

Google Maps is a leader among modern mapping services that provide satellite interactive maps online. At least a 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 field 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 contribute data to 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 Google Maps is where we can find the most detailed satellite photos for the largest regions of any country. Even in Russia such a large and successful company as Yandex cannot surpass the quality and coverage of satellite photographs, at least in its own country.

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

Image quality

The highest resolution images are usually available for the largest cities in the world in America, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Asia, Oceania. Currently, high-quality images are available for cities with a population of more than 1 million inhabitants. For smaller cities and other populated areas, satellite imagery is only available in limited resolution.

Possibilities

Google Maps or “Google Maps” was a real discovery for Internet users and indeed all PC users, giving an unheard of and previously unseen opportunity to look at their home, their village, cottage, lake or river where they vacationed in the summer - from a satellite. To see it from above, from a perspective from which it would be impossible to see it under any other circumstances. The discovery, the very idea of ​​giving people easy access to satellite photos, fits harmoniously into Google's overall vision of “easily providing everyone with access to any information on the planet.”

Google Maps allows you to see from a satellite simultaneously those things and objects that cannot be observed at the same time when observed from the ground. Satellite maps differ from ordinary maps in that on simple maps the 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 the objects being photographed, 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 satellite photography it is immediately clear: objects, usually round or oval in shape, with a unique swamp color, are swamps. The light green spots or areas in the photograph are fields, and the dark green ones are forests. With enough experience in orientation in Google Maps, you can even distinguish whether it is a coniferous forest or a mixed forest: coniferous has a browner tint. Also on the map you can distinguish specific broken lines piercing the forests and fields of the vast Russian expanses - these are railways. Only by looking from a satellite can one understand that railways have a much greater influence on the natural landscape surrounding them than roads. Also in Google Maps, it is possible to overlay 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 an area 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 surface of the Earth and 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 search function by house number will easily point you to the desired house, giving you the opportunity to “look around” the area around this house and how you can drive up/approach it. To search for the required object, just type in Russian in the search bar a query like: “City, street, house number” and the site will display to you the location of the object you are looking for using a special marker.

How to use Google Maps

To begin, open some 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 direction buttons.

To enlarge the map, click on the button "+" or roll the mouse roller when the cursor is over the map. You can also enlarge the map double click mouse in the location you are interested in.

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

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 commonly called “small Motherland”. A tool for realizing this desire can be satellite mapping services, which provide a unique opportunity to view all required geolocations in detailed graphic mode. After my attempts to look at my home online from a satellite, I found really high-quality services and in this article I will share my experiences.

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

There is a huge variety of mapping services on the Internet 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 that differ from the dominant Google maps in this segment.

At the same time, working with such cards is quite formulaic. You go to one of them, turn on satellite display if necessary, and then enter your address (town, street, house number) into the search bar. After this, the service finds the required location, and you can use the mouse wheel to increase or decrease the existing display. If for some reason the service does not find your house, 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 hometown and enjoy the view of the buildings we need up close.

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

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

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

There are two main options to view your home:

Yandex.Maps - will allow you to see the necessary 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 display of the territory of Russia and the frequency of updating data for the Russian Federation exceeds all existing analogues, including generally accepted 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 applying various text and schematic markings on a satellite map). In addition, users have access to a street display mode (“Yandex.Panoramas”), a traffic congestion indicator (“Yandex.Traffic”), as well as the “People’s Map” crowdsourcing system, which can be edited by any user.

To view your home using Yandex.Maps, go to the resource, enter 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 photographs). And then select one of the streets marked in blue (you will switch to the street view mode at this point, and you will be able to enjoy the color of these places).

Bing.Maps – satellite map from Microsoft

Bing.Maps is an online 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 around the world, plotting the optimal route and other features that are standard for services of this type.

To watch your home using Bing.Maps, go to the specified service, click on “Road” on the right, and select “Hybrid View”. Then enter the address you need into the search bar and view the view that opens.

MapQuest is a popular American mapping service

"MapQuest" (translated as “Card Search”) is a free American mapping service, the second most popular in the United States after Google Maps. The resource boasts a high degree of detail on the streets of many countries around the world, will help you plot a convenient route, inform you about existing traffic, and much more.

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

Conclusion

You can view your home from satellite using the services I listed in this material. For the territory of Russia, I would recommend the Yandex.Maps service - the level of detail and frequency of updated data inspires us to consider maps from Yandex the best mapping service in the Russian Federation. On a global scale, the Google Maps service is the undisputed leader, so it would be optimal to use the tools of this service to display maps of many countries around the world.

Parallel viewing of old and modern maps online.
The site primarily presents old maps of Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, a number of regions of Russia, there is something about Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, the Baltic countries and the Caucasus. Here you can not only study in detail the historical heritage of Russian, Soviet and foreign cartography, but also to apply the information received for practical purposes. So, with the help of the site you can find out the history of your small Motherland or all of Russia on maps of different times. What used to be on the site of your house, what names did the settlements and streets have in ancient times, where should you not buy an apartment - if the house was built on a former landfill or graveyard, where the former village of your ancestors was, where you should go with a metal detector in search of treasure, where search teams can look for the unburied remains of our soldiers from the Great Patriotic War - our project will help answer these and many other questions. Our search database for geographical objects contains not only the names of settlements, but also the location of tracts, relief features, old names from the times of the USSR, places of abandoned villages. The selected piece of any map can be printed, saved as a picture with an overlaid pointer, exported to Google Earth for viewing in 3D, insert into your blog or on your local history website. If you are interested in something on the plan, you can download a waypoint with one click WPT or GPX for GPS navigator or tag KML with the coordinates of this place. Almost any online map can be downloaded to your computer from the server and used without access to the Internet. The maps are posted in image and PDF format, as well as files for navigation programs that work with raster maps: OziExplorer, OruxMaps, Androzic, Locus Map, Locus Pro, AlpineQuest, Galileo Offline Maps, etc.

http:// warfly.ru

Aerial photographs of USSR cities taken during the war.
There are dozens of cities on the list. The pictures are superimposed on Google maps.
To compare photos of the city of those years with modern satellite ones, select full-screen mode and click on the “2 in 1” link.

http://www.

Old maps.
The site is simply superb. All sorts of old maps are collected.
You can find maps by city, or you can click Selecting a card and you get an explorer, like on a computer with folders and subfolders.
We select the required tree from the list and get: You can visually select a map. The database is incredible. When we select a map, we get to an interactive map, like Google or Yandex.
However, why “like Google or Yandex”? - There are both Google and Yandex.
There is also a Bing map, Wiki and OpenStreetMaps and a photo from the Google maps satellite. That is, you can look at the old map, and then jump to Yandex and immediately see how the map looks today.
Or you can make 2 windows and look at them in parallel.
You can select maps by year. Just keep in mind that here the old maps are linked to modern interactive map services, but they do not cover the whole earth. Each map has its own area.
Some maps cover more space, some less.
Some have higher resolution, some lower.
Let's be lenient and understanding.

https://www. oldmapsonline.org

Old maps of Moscow online

oldmoscowmaps.ru

The site presents old maps of Moscow and the Moscow region from ancient times to the present day. All maps can be viewed online in high resolution. Using the “Overlay Map” function, you can compare any old map of Moscow with modern maps and satellite images.

https:// splitmaps.com

Splitmaps

One-mile maps of the territories of modern Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Russia.
Free registration is required. On the site you can view ancient maps in parallel (up to 4 windows) with Google or Yandex maps.
There is a search and the ability to download maps.

Ancient globe

http:// dinosaurpictures.org

English language

What the earth looked like many, many years ago. On the website there is a globe, like on Google maps, and you can set the time in millions of years and see what the continents looked like. Of course, everything was very, very approximately like this, because then cartography did not exist and scientists guess with a high degree of probability based on time and place. So the site just gives a general impression. You can set, for example, your address and see what was there before.
In English

http://www. gulag.online

Virtual Museum Gulag Online

The peculiarity of the map is that it shows not only the Gulags, but also the places where the people who were imprisoned in the Gulag were. The site was created by the Czechs and concerns primarily prisoners from other countries, primarily Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary.
That is, it opens a little-known page of the Gulag. Here is information on the Gulag, testimonies of people, household items, a panorama, a 3D tour.

Many of us love to travel, discover new places, and get many vivid and unforgettable experiences from an exciting trip. At the same time, we do not always have the opportunity to visit where we would like, to walk along the streets of beautiful cities and enjoy all the wonderful flavor of those places. Google met such users by launching an online service in 2007 that allows them to take a virtual trip through the streets of many cities around the world. In this material, I will talk about the Google Maps Street View service, explain how to use it, and inspect streets and houses online.

Google Street View - street view in Google Maps

Google Street View (Google Street View) is a technology based on the Google Maps and Google Earth services that allows you to view panoramas of streets in many cities around the world.

The service was launched in 2007, and initially included photographs of some US cities. Nowadays, its capabilities allow you to enjoy the panorama of the streets of many cities of the Old and New Worlds.

The creation of such panoramas is usually carried out using a specialized vehicle on which a spherical camera is placed, which carries out continuous shooting at 360 degrees.

The photos obtained in this way are processed by Google and posted on the specified service, allowing one to construct breathtaking panoramas of the streets of many cities around the world.

And while most of the photos are taken by car, there are many photos taken by pedestrians, trekkers, tricycles, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, boats, and even submersibles.

When there is a pedestrian instead of a car

How to see streets and houses in Google Maps

To view streets using Google services, you can use both the stationary network service “Google Maps” and the capabilities of the mobile application “Google Street View”.

To view the streets of a city (take, for example, the city of Moscow), do the following:

1. Launch the Google Maps service using your PC’s browser (you can also simply enter the name of the city and the desired street in the search bar of the Google search engine, you will be offered to view this place on Google maps);
2. Find the city you need on the map (enter its name and street in the search bar, or find the city you need by moving the map and zooming accordingly using the mouse wheel);

   
   

3. Find the street you need, and then click on any place (a marker will appear there). Now select a small photo of this street at the bottom of the screen, and you will switch to viewing mode for this street;

   
   

4. To activate the street view mode, you can also select the little man icon on the right, and, holding down the left mouse button, drag it to the street we need;

   
   

5. To move along the street, move the cursor to the desired location on the street and press the left mouse button. Those places where you can move are indicated by an “X” icon. At the same time, arrows behind and in front of you indicate that you can move in the indicated directions;

   
   

6. By holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse in the desired direction, you can look around and admire the local sights (you can also use the “+” and “-” keys next to the icon on the right to zoom in and out);
7. To return to the general view of the city, click on the “back” arrow at the top left.

Is it possible to view streets on Google in real time?

Many users would like to enjoy viewing the desired streets and cities in real time using services like Google Maps. Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to implement this (except perhaps in those places where cameras are installed), since the card services of Google, Yandex and their competitors use photographs taken weeks, months, or even years ago.

The actual implementation of such tasks would require the use of many satellites, which, at the moment, are used primarily for military purposes.

Conclusion

In this material I described the specifics of using the Google Maps service for street viewing. This service can be useful for getting to know the sights of various cities around the world, for building optimal routes and solving other similar problems. Take a virtual trip to various cities around the world, and perhaps you will want to personally go to the place you like in order to fully enjoy its amazing beauty. After all, it's worth it.

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 this company's maps has been in first place for many years due to the good quality of satellite images in every corner of the planet; even Yandex could not provide such quality in its homeland.

Google Maps online

Quality of Google Maps satellite images in 2019

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. The database of 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 2019 as an example.

1. Go to the website or open the app on your mobile device.
2. All you have to do is point or touch on the touch screen and you can view the details of that area.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. To take advantage of high quality 3D images, click on the quad in the lower left corner. It will say "Satellite", if you need to return to 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 bar, preferably including 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 desired place on the map. 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 wanted to immediately use online maps and see their city or country from a satellite.

It seems unthinkable, 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 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 2019 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. Having looked at a desert area on a 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.