# Satellite Image Website Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 21, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447 "2003-02-21T01:17:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![LiquidChaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@LiquidChaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiquidChaos)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447/1 "2003-02-21T01:17:15Z")

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I don’t know if anyone can help, but I once found a website where you could view satellite images with a great zoom. You could enter in an area and get it down to a two or three street view. I have been searching agian but the best I can find is images where the entire area is covered. Can anyone help?

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**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447/2 "2003-02-21T01:25:31Z")

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There is a nifty one on Nvidia’s website called Earthviewer. It was pretty nifty but there are severe limitations as to where you can go down to the maximum zoom.

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**Author:** ![Truth\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Truth\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truth_Seeker)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447/3 "2003-02-21T01:26:54Z")

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Was it [www.terraserver.com](http://www.terraserver.com) ?

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**Author:** ![LiquidChaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@LiquidChaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiquidChaos)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447/4 "2003-02-21T01:28:52Z")

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[terraerver.com](http://terraerver.com) was the last one I went to, I could not figure out how to get the zoom to where I wanted it. I would say there is no such thing as the zoom I am going after, but I have seen it before.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447/5 "2003-02-21T01:52:44Z")

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[Mapquest](http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?dtype=a&mapdata=5SWr5yNjh485hSZZMIeUR6bvyXcRXbDhqZvIICHg%2bmXRw8Al0HdaK3LAhZlNscfYWFxGXsbky3rgevN2s3F7J%2baAI84W8SCQpa1FrCAxxAX8fGJY9r3Gu0FjMmqGP5PpDpDHDPrQmtxblD2rcnrpk7oBhMZh2Uzdgpp%2fZbF7Jr2XjoHIL9ydrqyI4PI4WGw4atthyd9uakyYDTTGYeD0JCmSmTJHzZsDG%2bv4TO0I%2ffbeK45wdFTcgAJx9iHYTPO5Z6fJlbYVlZxFtAH2XFvJW0Q%2b%2b%2fy%2fGyaP1tjagwA6Hqp7qDTAh3gIMq1FpYIO0%2fe%2bG0T1xK4YB%2bHivPQ6fUh8AmvnmCYVOO%2bA) has one that you can zoom in and out.

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**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447/6 "2003-02-21T01:56:19Z")

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If you want to shell out a little cash, you can go to [Space Imaging](http://www.spaceimaging.com/) and get full color 1 meter images, or multispectrum, or arial photos, etc. . . We use it all the time at the engineering firm where I work. The samples in the gallery show the quality.

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**Author:** ![Mandarax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Mandarax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mandarax)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447/7 "2003-02-21T02:40:59Z")

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There’s also [http://terraserver.microsoft.com](http://terraserver.microsoft.com), which doesn’t seem to be related to [terraserver.com](http://terraserver.com).

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**Author:** ![Mandarax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Mandarax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mandarax)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-image-website-question/156447/8 "2003-02-21T02:42:19Z")

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Gah, the auto-parse crammed the comma into the link. Let’s try again: [http://terraserver.microsoft.com](http://terraserver.microsoft.com)