#Google maps past satellite images free

I found that the tradeoffs are always the same: cost (you can get nearly anything if you want to pay), resolution, and timestamps. Then, for each one, I explored a bit about what they offered, what they're good at, and the considerations to keep in mind.

I started just by collecting the links to many different providers. (And let me know if you find any errors.)

Not only does the sheet put everything I find into a single location, but as I read through the results, I'll find different properties of the image providers that I might want to sort or filter. Naturally, if you've got a bunch of sources like this, my natural inclination is to organize them on a Google Spreadsheet. (And, to tell the truth, I was expecting to find something like this on the results page.)

#Google maps past satellite images free

One of the more useful results here is ' 15 Free Providers' with links to several satellite image services. When faced with a problem like this, I usually start with my 'list of' trick, beginnings with a search like this:Īnd sure enough, this gives a set of web pages that have long lists of potential sources (even including 4 ads at the top of the SERP pointing to commercial sources). What are the best resources to get time-stamped satellite images? How can an ordinary SearchResearcher get their hands on satellite images not very long after (or even during!) a major event? So today's Challenge is a kind of collective ask for all people who do SearchResearch:ġ. Getting near-real-time imagery would be great, but often that's outside the budget of many non-professional searchers. As you can appreciate, the big problem is getting your hands on current images-or at least accurately time-stamped images from the not-too-distant past. The Challenge for last week was to find good aerial or satellite images that are more-or-less in realtime.