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satellite live maps The satellite maps are the pictures of the Earth surface, taken with the aid of the artificial Earth satellite. On the 14th of August 1959, the American artificial satellite "Explorer 6" took the first picture of the Earth surface. The first live satellite maps got from the orbit were taken in 1977. It was the beginning of the satellite pictures era.
More than thirty years later the topography live maps and satellite pictures of the coordinate net became accessible in online cartography services. The famous searching systems of Google, Yahoo, Bing (Microsoft),Yandex propose their own providing programme versions working with satellite maps.
Satellite maps are applied in agriculture, in timber industry, in geodesy, in geophysics, for learning tourist routes and the routes for scientific and research expeditions. They are applied in the personal mobile devices together with modules GPS (aGPS) of navigation. They use satellite live maps to learn the locality, to determine coordinates, to calculate the distance, to measure the length of the territory, to determine the relief. The satellite live maps are used to learn geography, to determine the traffic routes and for other aims. The people working in this field are able to use the satellite maps in their web-sites and manage them by service programs API (Application Programming Interface) of satellite live maps.
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Online programs to work with maps
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Google satellite maps
is a basic web offering powerful primarily service which is used for searching for directions or
location on the Earth. With the aid of a live satellite map you can dynamically (real time)
determine the coordinates of the object on the Earth (latitude and longitude). Use the live satellite maps, one can easy find the postal address of the object (the city, the street, the house). You can determine locality altitude above sea-level too.
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A collection of localities on the Earth which are visible on satellite maps
People were always interested in travelling to unknown mysterious or historical places. Tourism and travelling were always in high needs. Let's use the resources of modern technologies to look at the satellite images on the Google map: ruins of ancient cities in Peru, the pyramids in Egypt, mysterious symbols, Paris museums, Stonehenge in United Kingdom, imperial palace in China, skyscrapers in USA and Japan, artificial islands in Dubai or simply to see an interesting view on the satellite map.
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Maps from satellite are connected to solve one task
Double satellite live maps
Two Google maps connected together are interactive double live maps. These double maps live work in different modes at the same time (synchronously).
One of these maps live is in the satellite maps' mode and the other one is in the live satellite images' operating condition at the same time.
If the coordinates of the live map change, the coordinates of the other live Google map will change automatically too.
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Google map as a magnifying glass
Looking at the Earth and using satellite images you need to change from time to time a zoom level to the Earth surface on Google maps . The additional live map as a magnifying glass gives the possibility to do the dynamic review of the magnified part of the picture.
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