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Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite ...
Google Maps - covers the whole country; Libre Map Project; MapQuest - covers the whole country; The National Map by the United States Geological Survey. Roadtrippers - covers the whole country; TerraServer-USA - covers the whole country; Uzbekistan. 2GIS, by 2GIS. Vietnam "Vietbando Maps", by Vietbando. "Vinalo Maps", Vinalo. See also
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The Danish map-tool Krak offers their own version of street view in the largest Danish cities, including Copenhagen, Odense and Aarhus. [22] Nokia Maps or HERE offers street views of Copenhagen. COWI offers the charged service Danmarks Digitale Gadefoto (DDG), which sees yearly updates of full coverage panoramas including the Faeroese Islands. [23]
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
Organic Maps is a free and open-source, offline navigation app that uses map data from OpenStreetMap. The application is designed to function without internet connectivity by downloading maps for offline use. Organic Maps emphasizes privacy, as it does not track user locations or collect personal data. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Google Maps Navigation is a mobile application developed by Google for the Android and iOS operating systems that later integrated into the Google Maps mobile app. The application uses an Internet connection to a GPS navigation system to provide turn-by-turn voice-guided instructions on how to arrive at a given destination. [ 1 ]
In November 2014, Maps.me was acquired by Mail.Ru Group for 542 million Russian rubles (around US$14 million at that time) to be integrated with My.com, and the app was made free of charge. [19] [non-primary source needed] The engineering team was relocated to the Mail.Ru Group office in Moscow to continue working on the project.