Maps registered cell towers and antennas near a US address, with owner and registration details from FCC records.
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Thousands of ready-made map layers (imagery, borders, infrastructure, demographics) to overlay on a location.
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Baidu's map of China, with far better street-level and place coverage of the mainland than Google Maps.
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Microsoft maps with aerial and bird's-eye imagery, often captured on different dates than Google's, which helps when verifying a location.
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Free directory of US public-records searches, organised by state and record type.
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Directory of free US public-records sources: court, property, business and licensing databases by state.
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Declassified 1960sā70s CORONA spy-satellite photos, georeferenced, for seeing how a place looked decades ago.
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Shows public geotagged photos taken near a place on a map.
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Shows a road map, satellite view and Street View of the same spot side by side, synced as you move.
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Network of live public webcams worldwide, useful for checking current conditions or activity at a place.
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Every past version of Esri's world satellite basemap since 2014, to compare how a place changed between dates.
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Search Flickr photos by place or keyword and browse them on a map; many keep their original camera metadata.
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Gazetteer of over 11 million place names with coordinates, alternate spellings and administrative areas.
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Windows app for viewing photo locations on a map and editing geotags and metadata in bulk.
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Google's 3D globe with measuring tools and a timelapse. The desktop version (Google Earth Pro) also shows historical imagery by date.
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Satellite imagery, Street View and business listings for most of the world. The standard starting point for geolocating a photo.
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HERE's map, with road data and satellite imagery from a different provider than Google, useful for cross-checking a location.
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Decades of historical aerial photos and topographic maps of the US, to see how a place looked in a given year.
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Street-level imagery collected by dashcams, often more recent than Google Street View in covered cities.
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Type a place and jump straight into Google Street View, without going through the map first.
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Open, crowdsourced street-level imagery, sometimes the only street photos available where Google has none.
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Searches KartaView street-level photos by describing a scene or uploading a similar image, to find where a photo was taken.
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USGS viewer for Landsat satellite imagery since 1972. Compare the same place across dates.
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Live map of news events in conflict zones worldwide, each pinned to a location with its source.
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Estimates how many people were in a crowd by drawing its area on a map, to check claims about protest sizes.
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Crowdsourced street-level photos from around the world, often covering places Google Street View does not.
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Map of redacted US traffic accident reports, searchable by place and date.
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Korea's leading map, with far better coverage of South Korea than Google, including its own street-level imagery.
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Official US public-safety search across every state sex-offender registry.
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Maps power lines, substations, telecom towers, pipelines and water infrastructure from OpenStreetMap.
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Open database of cell tower locations worldwide. Shows towers on a map and can locate a phone from the tower it used.
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Railway map with tracks, stations, signals and speed limits, useful for identifying a rail line in a photo.
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Community-edited world map, often more detailed than commercial maps for paths, buildings and small features.
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Queries OpenStreetMap for places that match what a photo shows, for example a pharmacy next to a bus stop within 200 m of a river.
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Property listings with sale history, tax history and photos for US homes.
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US and Canadian parcel map showing property boundaries and the recorded owner of each lot.
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Windows app that views, downloads and stitches satellite imagery from many providers for offline comparison.
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Satellite maps from several providers (Google, Bing, Esri, Yandex) in one viewer, to compare imagery of a place.
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Directory of official US public-records databases for every state and county.
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Browser version of Bellingcat's ShadowFinder: from an object's shadow length and the time, maps where a photo could be.
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Satellite imagery marketplace with a free open-data section; order new or archived high-resolution images of a place.
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Shows the sun's position and shadow direction for any place and time, to check when a photo was taken or narrow down where.
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Search and download satellite imagery (Landsat, Sentinel) and historical aerial photos for any area and date range.
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US voter registration records: name, address, party and voting history where states make them public.
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Crowdsourced map of Wi-Fi networks. Look up where a network name (SSID) or router address (BSSID) has been seen.
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Collaborative map where users label buildings and places with descriptions, often naming sites mainstream maps do not.
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Live world map combining conflict reports, military flights and ships, GPS jamming and satellite imagery.
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Maps with the best coverage of Russia and neighbouring countries, including Yandex's own street-level panoramas.
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Finds YouTube videos geotagged near a location, or lists every video from a channel on a map.
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Near-real-time satellite imagery and weather maps, useful for checking conditions at a place on a given day.
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