# Street View

| Name                      | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Cost                                                         | Tool Review and Guide                                                                                                                                      |
| ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| About Maps and Satellites | A guide to using map and satellite tools.                                                                                                                                                                                                | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/about-maps-and-satellites>                                                                           |
| Baidu Maps                | Baidu’s mapping service offering satellite imagery, street maps, and streetview (“Panorama” - zh:百度全景).                                                                                                                                  | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/baidu-maps>                                                                                          |
| Bing Maps                 | Bing Maps is a web mapping service provided by Microsoft that offers detailed geographical information and tools for route planning, location search, and satellite imagery.                                                             | <mark style="background-color:orange;">Partially Free</mark> | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/bing-maps>                                                                                           |
| Carte.ma                  | Mapping/streetview service for Morocco                                                                                                                                                                                                   | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <p><sub><em>Guide not available</em></sub></p><p><a href="http://carte.ma/"><mark style="background-color:blue;"><http://carte.ma/></mark></a></p>         |
| GeoHints                  | GeoHints is a website that provides information about things like traffic lights, utility poles, bollards etc. for different regions of the world to help geolocate a location.                                                          | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/geohints>                                                                                            |
| Google Earth Pro          | Google Earth is a geospatial tool that provides detailed, global satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain models, and the ability to explore geographic data interactively.                                                                   | <mark style="background-color:orange;">Partially Free</mark> | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/google-earth-pro>                                                                                    |
| Google Maps               | Google Maps provides mapping information, satellite imagery and Google Street View imagery including historical Street View images.                                                                                                      | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/google-maps>                                                                                         |
| KartaView                 | KartaView is a crowdsourced platform for street view imagery.                                                                                                                                                                            | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/kartaview>                                                                                           |
| Mapillary                 | Mapillary is a crowdsourced street-level imagery platform.                                                                                                                                                                               | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/mapillary>                                                                                           |
| MapSwitcher               | Chrome extension switches between online map apps, maintaining (as far as possible) the map centre, zoom level, & directions of the source map.                                                                                          | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/mapswitcher>                                                                                         |
| Photo-Map.RU              | Geotagged VK posts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <p><sub><em>Guide not available</em></sub></p><p><a href="http://photo-map.ru/"><mark style="background-color:blue;"><http://photo-map.ru/></mark></a></p> |
| Tencent Maps              | Tencent Maps (formerly SOSO Maps) is a desktop and web mapping service application and technology provided by Chinese company Tencent, offering satellite imagery, street maps, street view (coverage) and historical view perspectives. | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/tencent-maps>                                                                                        |
| what3words                | A proprietary geocode system which identifies any location on the surface of the earth to a resolution of 3 metres. The identifier is a unique combination of three words, available in 60 languagues.                                   | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/what3words>                                                                                          |
| Wikimapia                 | Wikimapia was a long-running collaborative mapping project that remains partially accessible, providing open source researchers with a unique database of historical, user-generated content.                                            | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark>            | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/wikimapia>                                                                                           |
| Yandex Maps               | A platform offering detailed maps, satellite imagery, street views (static & sometimes dynamic imagery, including aerial views). Often the best available data on Russia & surrounding regions.                                          | <mark style="background-color:orange;">Partially Free</mark> | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/yandex-maps>                                                                                         |