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Interactive map Google Satellite is a free service from a well-known Google Corporation.
The service provides access to verified cartographic information of almost any region of the planet, including the location and purpose of objects.
In this case, the mapping occurs in several modes and without advertisements and other unnecessary data.
"Google" has created a service using a satellite view and collected photos Earth surfaces.
As a result, the Google Earth type was obtained - without some opportunities, but a working online.
Work with the card
When working with Google maps, several options for presenting information are possible:
- In the usual form, reminiscent of automotive atlas, with the names of settlements, streets and other objects;
- Satellite card, shown not in real time, and in the form of a photo from space, made some time ago (pictures are constantly updated). At the same time, the names of the streets, house numbers and other information from the card is superimposed on top of the images.
Switching modes is carried out using the icon in the lower left corner of the map.
Previously, there were three modes, including regular photo From the satellite without inscriptions, but the service refused the last option, aligning it with a regular map.
Although the names still can be disabled by selecting the "Hide Names" item in the service menu.
The scale of the cards is based on the projection of the Mercator and remains constant. And, it means that the distance between the meridians is growing to the equator.
Binding to the Gogle MAPS GUGL card globe is carried out using a similar service - Google Earth.
Detailed maps There are only for major settlements.
For suburban territory and, especially unnecessary terrain, there are practically no clear pictures, and the resolution of photographs below. Sometimes the territory hides the clouds or their shadows.
Interface functions
Service works using search queries. The keyword entered is compared with the labels on the map, and, in the case of a coincidence, the image of the found location is displayed.
At the same time, in addition to the card, the weather forecast is shown, and the opportunity to see photos and panoramic images of the surroundings are provided (if available).
The picture just switches to the atlas mode.
It can also be useful to be the service of laying a route, thanks to which you can find out:
- What routes can be reached before the specified place;
- Distance from one point to another;
- Travel time on personal and public transport;
- Numbers of buses or metro stations, with which you can drive the desired distance.
With the help of the navigation panel, high quality and image accuracy are configured. And right while using any other service feature.
If necessary, the image may be shown in another projection - side view. And the routes are selected using not only vehicles, but also a bicycle.
Also available information about moving from one point in another on foot.
Capabilities
Among additional features The service has the opportunity to view the chronology of their movements - unless, of course, the application is not integrated into the desktop browser, and installed on a mobile gadget or laptop.
In this case, Google cards will allow you to view all visits from the installation of the program.
In addition, for a mobile gadget, the "Google Map" service provides the ability to download offline map of Russia or another country.
Thus, even being without communication, but with a smartphone or tablet, you can use cartographic data, although without binding to the area.
All this is available for devices and from iOS, and from Android.
If the Internet is still there, you can see online not only routes and objects, but also to see, for example, where the nearest refueling station is located and even the price of fuel.
For settlements, traffic search function is available. At the same time, even such details as the density of movement and possible bypass routes are provided.
Tip! The option will be useful and for a trip to work and back, and when planning a country journey.
Truck viewer
Over the surface of the Earth can now be performed permanent observation. In addition, access to view satellite shots is available. Among the whole set of applications for such actions, Google Planet Earth is in real time has the greatest popularity in Russia in real time.
Yandex maps can be called as the main competitor. Their developers are Russians, due to which the city of Russia is worked out with the greatest accuracy. Due to the available functions, on large settlements, you can view the level of the network load, as well as numerous geodata and demographic data. Google provide access to traffic, as well as all information on land plots only in the United States.
Online viewing of the Earth from the satellite
Google Earth online from a real-time satellite is displayed on the manufacturer's website. In order for the plugin fully worked, all the basic elements were displayed, it is recommended to use the Google Chrome Internet browser. In some situations, it will be enough to update the page so that everything is opened correctly.
As major dignity Google Maps. You can select the presence of a developed application for users by which you can view pictures from the satellite in any direction. This provides the opportunity to move away from the classic browser, and just download the application in advance and enjoy all its capabilities. In addition, functions and properties in it will be much more. If you wish, you can open a three-dimensional globe in virtual mode.
Main advantages
If you first download Google Earth online, and not to view maps in the Internet browser, customers receive a full range of positive moments, which include:
- Creating screenshots of a particular place, as well as a high-resolution video recording.
- To search for a site or building, it is enough to enter a name or specific coordinates in the search string.
- Move between "favorite places", saving them before in the settings.
- To subsequently, it is possible to work in a program in offline mode, you should pre-synchronize via the Internet.
- From the object to the object you can move by the air simulator. This option provides more convenient for each user.
- In addition to the earth's surface, you can open access to other bodies in heaven, like the moon or Mars.
It is only a minimum list of advantages purchased clients of online cards from a satellite.
View modes
As mentioned earlier, Google maps are available not only through the Internet browser, but also an application. By plugin you can use interactive maps In any web browser. The address is embedded in the resource program code. In this case, the entire planet may appear, as well as a specific selected region. In the latter case, the corresponding coordinates will have to introduce.
Control is carried out by keyboard and mouse. They with each other in combination allow you to increase or extend the scale, customize the cursor while driving. In addition, it is additionally on the map there are icons ("+", "-").
Among the map viewing modes are allocated as follows:
- Landscape from the satellite. Here are more interesting features of the surface of the planet.
- Geographical - in the form of a scheme that allows you to study the incoming pictures more.
- Physical - display of streets with titles, cities.
The main requirement for stable operation and instant card download is a high-speed Internet connection. You can also use offline mode, but here it is initially necessary to use the Internet to download.
Each user was at least once interested, how to find his home, using aerial photographs.
Surprisingly, access via the Internet to this information is now completely free.
Thanks to the launch of the commercial observations of the Earth, we have become available online tools that allow you to easily see your home from space.
In our modern cosmic era there are more than 8,000 satellites that are constantly in the orbit of the Earth.
The overwhelming majority of the data and transmit the encoded one.
Many of them are equipped with high-power cameras. Just look into the sky, and you will definitely see the trail of the satellite after the satellite will fly over his head.
But how can you gain access to these satellite data and aerial photographs of your home?
Satellite shots of the whole earth
If you want to just watch satellite images of the entire planet, you have several simple solutions.
You can go to the site of NASA weather forecasters. Every three hours the site appears on the site, made by the geostationary operational ecological satellite NOAA.
This is the release of images of the whole hemisphere of the planet Earth.
From these pictures you can see the main changes weather conditionsaffecting various hemispheres of land.
The pictures are so accurate that you can see a certain place on the ground with a maximum approximation.
In these photos, the maximum realistic is striking. Weather changes that you see on these pictures occur on the planet right now.
If you do not want to view the video, but just want to enjoy the extraordinary hemispheres of the earth, you need these pictures.
Also on the Internet you can find amazing new satellite images of the Earth, which come with spacecraft Meteosate of the 3rd generation of the European Space Agency.
Approximation. We look at satellite satellites of houses
If these photos from the weather satellites will not be enough for you, let's see how close the image is so so that you can look at the houses from the space.
To do this, we will need the best tool for today in the market, in my opinion,. All you need is a web browser and internet connection.
When you first start the user gets a view from a satellite that is over North America.
Then you can increase or move the camera over the surface to see any place on Earth.
You can also enter the exact address you want to see.
As soon as you do this, you will get free access to satellite images of the house whose address you indicated. You can save the image or print it.
Another interesting tool is Google Earth. Access to it can be obtained by reference: http://earth.google.com..
The main differences between Google Maps and Google Earth is that you have to download and install the appropriate application on your local computer (they have a version for PC, Mac, Linux and even iPhone).
After you downloaded and installed, you can see the 3-dimensional view of the Earth, which can be increased and reduced.
You can also rotate the 3-dimensional model of our planet. You can enter your address and look at your home from above.
In Google Earth, the print function works much better than in Google Maps, as a printer is used directly, and not through a web browser.
There are among modern users those who prefer not to use the products of this leader search enginessuspecting that technical engineers Companies spy for them.
Microsoft service was previously called MSN Maps, now the developers have changed the name on Bing Maps., fully updating the interface and functionality.
Yahoo service is called Yahoo Maps, and it is very similar to Google Maps.
Between these two services there is a big difference.
On the Internet you can find a cool application that allows you to see both of these applications side by side.
Compare them, it can be understood that the latter are worked in more detail.
And most cities are better to consider exactly through this application.
Where do all these photos come from?
Google Maps and other popular cartographic services in really just customers.
They are the same as users use the services of satellite communications, which actually download these photos from space.
There are several main service providers in the market, including GeoEye.
GEOEYE's main competitors are DigitalGlobe and Spot Image.
Each company has a fleet of satellites that they use to observe the earth.
Their technical capabilities allow us to remove tiny land objects.
Minimal object that is on this moment It was possible to fix about 45 cm (18 inches).
In other words, the 45-centimeter object will look like one pixel in the photo.
Private satellites producing round-the-clock observation of our planet:
- GeoEye - 5 satellites: Ikonos, Orbview-2, Orbview-3, GeoEye - 1, GeoEye-2 (in 2013).
- DigitalGlobe - 4 satellites: Early Bird 1, QuickBird, WorldView-1, WorldView-2
- Spot Image - 2 Satellites: Spot 4, Spot 5
Each of these services allows customers to purchase satellite shots directly, but prices are extremely high: hundreds or even thousands of dollars for specific satellite images.
It is usually impossible to buy direct photos of the company, the owner of the satellite.
Most often in such cases use the services of international intermediaries.
The average users are better to adhere to free sources.
When you look at these amazing pictures from space, you can surprise accuracy and detail. In fact, this is not the most relevant data.
At the moment, in free access, you can find snapshots of two-year limitations.
More relevant data is redeemed by special services, intelligence organizations and never come to free access.
But, if you have a thirst for receiving current information in you, it is worth contacting other sources that will give you a living look for the land from the space.
For example, you can access a live broadcast with international space station NASA.
About 40% of the time, if you go to their website, you can see the video of the Earth from the space station.
Another service called Urthecast launched a broadcast from a high-resolution camera with an international space station in 2013 to broadcast the video of the Earth from space.
Navigation
Google Maps is not just a popular program used by the company, but it is also one of the most popular cards used for hybrid web applications.
It makes Google Maps a very popular and universal tool that is used in different directions.
It is used in localization applications, in services for weather forecasting.
Learn to use the application simply. So you can navigate in various hybrid web applications based on cards.
Although some of these hybrids are changing some default settings.
But knowledge of Google Maps will allow you to quickly adapt to small changes in the programmatic display.
Tip: While reading instructions for using the application, try transferring cards to a separate browser window. You can practice in parallel, reading useful tips.
Google Maps. - This is the leader among modern cartographic services that provide satellite interactive cards online. At least the leader in satellite images and 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. Cannot surpass the quality and coating of satellite photographs at least in their own 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 large cities and others 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 ordinary topics, What's on simple maps Colors and natural shapes natural facilities 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 loars linespiercing forests and fields of immense Russian expanses is railways. Only looking from the satellite can be understood that the railways are much more roads affect the natural landscape around them. Also in Google maps There is an opportunity to impose on a satellite image of the terrain or city of a map with the name of areas, roads, settlements on the scale of the country and the name of the streets, houses of houses, metro stations on the scale of the city.
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 moving around the city. If you have already seen enough satellite species of his 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. To search for the necessary object, it is enough to dial in Russian in the search string. Request request: "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.
Remember the film "People in Black", where the agent Kay through the orbital camera looked at his beloved, watering flowers in the courtyard at home? The opportunity to look at how our land looks from a satellite in real time, attracts people from around the world. Today we will tell - and show you! - The best fruit modern technologies By observation of land.
Attention! If you see dark screenThis means that cameras in the shade. Screensaver or gray screen - no signal.
Usually we get only static satellite mapsFrozening in time - the details are not updated for years, and on the street reigns eternal flight day. Isn't it interesting to look at how beautiful the earth from the satellite online in winter or at night? In addition, the quality of the pictures of some regions of Russia and the CIS leaves much to be desired. But now all this is solved in one fell swoop - thanks to the land online from a real-time satellite now is not fiction. Right on this page you can join thousands of people who are now watching the planet.
At an altitude of 400 kilometers above the planet, where the station is constantly located, NASA has installed, developed by private companies. Cosmonauts themselves or by teams of the flight control center are sent cameras from which data is being transferred. Thanks to the manual control, we can see how the earth looks from the satellite online from all sides - its atmosphere, mountains, cities and oceans. And the mobility of the station allows for an hour to consider half of the globe.
How is the broadcast?
Due to the fact that the cameras are at the international station, we are noticeable even minor details that are commented by scientists, astronauts and professional journalists. However, our land online from a real-time satellite is visible due to the work of a whole complex of people and cars - except for the already mentioned astronauts and the control center, in the process, satellite communications transmission technologies, solar nutrition batteries and technical specialists engaged in translation and decoding data are involved in the process. Accordingly, there are nuances in the broadcast - their knowledge will help you see more and better understand what is happening on the screen.
Our observation point, the orbital station, moves with a huge speed - almost 28 thousand kilometers per hour, and takes plenty of land for 90-92 minutes. Half of this time, 45 minutes, the station hangs on the night side. And although on the amount of solar cells cameras can feed the sunset light, in depth, electricity disappears - therefore it is not always available from the satellite. At such moments, the broadcast screen becomes gray; It is worth a little wait, and you will meet dawn along with astronauts.
In order to find best time For observations, you will use our special Card Earth from the satellite - it marks not only the time of passing the space station, but also its exact position. So you can find out when you see your city from cosmic height, or find a station in the sky with binoculars or a telescope!
We have already mentioned that cosmonauts and ground management can change the camera tip - they perform not only entertaining, but also scientific function. At such moments of the planet, the Earth from the satellite in real time is not available - a black or blue screen saver appears on the screen, or the already captured moments are repeated. If there are no satellite interruptions, the station is on the day side of the planet, and the background suddenly changed, then the chambers remove zones inaccessible to the public in connection with international treaties. Secret objects and prohibited areas are closed and on static maps, skillfully hidden by photo edits or just lured. It remains only to wait for the moment when the situation in the world will relax, and there will be no secrets from ordinary citizens.
Hidden opportunities
But do not be upset if the camera does not function right now! When the planet Earth online from the satellite cannot be shown, astronauts and NASA find other entertainment for the audience. You will see life inside the International Space Station, astronauts in weightlessness, which tell about their work and what kind of land from the satellite will be shown as follows. Let me look even in an impressively large flight management center. The only minus - even the speech of Russian astronauts to translate into English, in order to be understood by American staff, who manage the center. Turn off the translation is currently impossible. It is also not worthwhile to be surprised in silence - the comments are not always appropriate, and there is no continuous sound.
For those who predict the route of the cameras using the opportunities, which gives a map of Earth from a real-time satellite, we have a tip - check the settings of the date and time on your computer. The server that updates the card uses the specified formula of the international station movement and the time belt of your IP address to predict the position of orbital chambers. About what the earth looks from the satellite, online map Judges solely by device time. If your watch is lagging behind or rush relative to the temporary belt, the station will move to the East or West, respectively. The use of proxy servers and anonymizers will also affect the result.
Live broadcast of NASA channel
You are a member of the scientific program
Surely you noticed that the quality of the picture of the planet Earth from the space Live broadcast from the satellite often changes - the image is covered with squares or lags behind the sound track. In most cases, it is enough to check the connection speed with the Internet, disable other videos and programs for downloading files or click on the HD button in the broadcast window. However, if there are interruptions, it is worth remembering - the planet is visible alive only due to a large-scale scientific experiment.
Yes, yes - the video on this page is not just so. Cameras installed at the International Space Station are part of the program. High Definition. Earth Viewing (from English: Earth View from Satellite in high resolution), which is still improving and developing. Cameras installed by astronauts in isolated from cold and dust conditions, however, they are subjected to hard radiation from the side. Scientists experiment with the difficulties of incomprehensible data transmission in space, achieving the earth map from the satellite in good quality There was not only fixed, but also alive, dynamic. The results obtained will help improve existing channels and create new ones - even in the orbit of Mars in the foreseeable future.
So we stay in touch - in the world of space a new one appears every day!
