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Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D globe based on satellite imagery, aerial photography, and GIS data. Users can explore the Earth, add their own data, view photos, Street View, and more, but also face privacy and security issues.
This web page lists some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services that have such issues due to censorship, blurring, or low resolution. It does not show a blurred satellite image of the earth, but it mentions some countries and regions that are partially or completely obscured.
Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world. Satellite imaging companies sell images by licensing them to governments and businesses such as Apple Maps and Google Maps.
Learn about the history, features, and implementation of Google Street View, a technology that provides interactive panoramas from many streets in the world. Google Street View is available as a component of Google Maps and Google Earth, as a web application, and as a mobile application for Android and iOS.
Google Maps offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° views, traffic conditions, and route planning for various modes of transportation. It was launched in 2005 by Google, after acquiring several companies that developed the technology and data behind it.
Learn about the history, types, and projections of world maps, from ancient to modern. Explore various thematic maps of the Earth's surface, oceans, and continents.
A summary of notable map projections with articles on Wikipedia, including the Goode homolosine projection. The Goode homolosine is a pseudocylindrical equal-area projection that preserves the shape of small areas and is used in interrupted form.
Terravision is a networked virtual representation of the Earth based on satellite images, aerial shots, altitude data and architectural data, developed by ART+COM in 1993. It was the first system to provide a seamless web navigation and visualization of the earth, but lost a patent infringement lawsuit against Google Earth in 2017.