Baidu’s mapping service offering satellite imagery, street maps, and streetview (“Panorama” - zh:百度全景).
Free
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.
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.
Google Earth is a geospatial tool that provides detailed, global satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain models, and the ability to explore geographic data interactively.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Baidu’s mapping service offering satellite imagery, street maps, and streetview (“Panorama” - zh:百度全景).
Free
Bing Maps
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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.
Copernicus Browser (formerly Sentinel Hub Playground, EO Browser)
A free web-based platform for viewing, analyzing, and downloading satellite imagery from the European Space Agency's Sentinel missions, with data updated every 5-10 days.
EOS Landviewer provides free services for up to 10 images. More images and analysis are available to journalists at a discount. Contact: Artem Seredyuk artem.seredyuk@eosda.com. EOS is in the process of developing a service provisionally called EOS Media that will be providing free images and analysis of major natural disasters.
Google Earth is a geospatial tool that provides detailed, global satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain models, and the ability to explore geographic data interactively.
GovMap provides an interactive map of Israel, offering users a wide range of data including property boundaries, planning information, and infrastructure details.
NASA Worldview is an online tool for visualizing and downloading near real-time satellite imagery and scientific data of Earth's atmosphere, land, and oceans.
Predicts & describes the position & path of >10K satellites in Earth orbit, relative to points on the earth's surface input by the user, for 5 days ahead, + International Space Station video feed.
A free open-data platform that hosts 300+ datasets on different topics relating to the environment, people and resources, including real-time datasets.
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.
The ESA's Earth Online product offers a portal for accessing satellite imagery and environmental data, supporting a range of applications from climate monitoring to natural disaster assessment.
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.
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.
A user interface to search OpenStreetMap data for features in proximity to each other.
Free
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.
Partially Free
Convert Geographic Units
A tool that converts various geographic coordinates to support diverse mapping and spatial analysis needs.
Free
F4Map
F4Map is an interactive 3D map visualization tool that provides detailed rendering of urban landscapes and geographical features.
Free
Gaode Maps
Gaode Maps (also known as AMap) is a mapping application and technology from the Chinese company Alibaba.
Free
Gjirafa
Mapping service for Albania (specially Kosovo)
Free
Guide not available
Global Fishing Watch Map
The Global Fishing Watch Map is a digital platform for investigating fishing activities worldwide by utilising satellite and AIS data.
Free
Global Forest Watch
Explore tree cover loss and gain data, recent deforestation and fire alerts, land use designations, carbon emissions, biodiversity metrics and more.
Free
Google Maps
Google Maps provides mapping information, satellite imagery and Google Street View imagery including historical Street View images.
Free
GovMap
GovMap provides an interactive map of Israel, offering users a wide range of data including property boundaries, planning information, and infrastructure details.
Free
HERE WeGo
Mapping service that can serve as an alternative to Google Maps or Apple Maps.
Free
Guide not available
Hitta.se
Mapping service for Sweden
Free
MapChecking
This tool helps you estimate and fact-check the maximum number of people standing in a given area.
Free
Mapillary
Mapillary is a crowdsourced street-level imagery platform.
Free
MapSwitcher
Chrome extension switches between online map apps, maintaining (as far as possible) the map centre, zoom level, & directions of the source map.
Free
mapy.cz
Mapping service for Czechia
Free
Guide not available
Maritime Awareness Project
South China Sea maps with oil and gas fields, fishing areas, air defense zones and administrative, claimed, disputed zones, submarine data cables.
Free
Guide not available
NASA FIRMS
Displays a world map overlaid with infra-red data from one or more satellites, some, but not all of which may represent heat from fires and explosions.
Free
Nullschool Earth Map
View current and historic wind, weather, ocean and pollution conditions on an interactive animated map.
Free
Guide not available
OpenInfraMap
Power lines, telecoms, solar, oil, gas & water infrastructure mapped globally.
Free
Guide not available
OpenSeaMap
Sea map of borders, special zones, shipping lanes, with overlays of MarineTraffic and other sources
Free
Guide not available
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.
Free
Guide not available
Overpass Turbo
Overpass Turbo is a web-based tool for querying and visualizing OpenStreetMap crowd sourced data, aiding in extracting specific information like locations of amenities e.g.hospitals.
Free
PeakVisor
Dual window views for any global location: (1) a 2-D map & (2) a 3-D rendered terrain model, with photo fitting, shade/slope mapping, sun trails & weather data. In active development for OS research.
Free
QGIS:
QGIS is a free Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS).
Free
Quick geolocation search
A tool that brings several maps into one place for easy location search.
Free
Resource Watch
A free open-data platform that hosts 300+ datasets on different topics relating to the environment, people and resources, including real-time datasets.
Free
Guide not available
Satellites.pro
Satellites.pro allows open source researchers to quickly switch between several free satellite imagery and mapping services.
Free
ShadeMap
ShadeMap is a global simulation of mountain, building & tree shadows for a given date & time. Base data is free, but users can buy 30cm accurate data per sq km for areas of special focus.
Partially Free
ShadowMap
Global map of 3D buildlings and the shadows they cast at a specific time a day
Free
Strava
Social media fitness app with exercise map based on users' GPS data.
Partially Free
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.
Free
Topotijdreis.nl
Over 200 years of maps and topography from the Netherlands.
Free
Guide not available
UTM grid zones
An overview of the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system.
Free
Guide not available
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.
Free
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.
Free
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.