Free Maps & Imagery

The free world map built by volunteers. Anyone can use the data, and it powers many other map apps.

Browse daily satellite images of the whole Earth going back decades. Turn on layers for fires, storms, smoke and sea ice, and scrub through time.

A huge free collection of high-resolution historical maps, searchable by place and date.

Georeferences historical maps from library collections and overlays them on a modern map so you can compare then and now.

Type in a set of coordinates and it gives you links to that exact spot on dozens of maps, satellite views and nearby Wikipedia articles.

Japan's official national map portal with aerial and satellite imagery layers and terrain data. Interface is in Japanese with an English option.

Free, crowdsourced street-level photos from around the world, used to help improve OpenStreetMap.

Interactive maps for popular video games with every collectible, quest, and location marked.

Crowd-sourced street-level photos from around the world, viewable on a map. Covers roads Google never drove.

Search hundreds of thousands of historical maps by place and date, pulled from libraries and archives worldwide.

A world map you can move through time. Pick a year and see the borders, roads and buildings that stood then. Built by volunteers, like OpenStreetMap.

An interactive map of the undersea cables that carry most of the world's internet traffic.

A virtual museum of interactive maps on history, geography and data.

Drag countries around the map to compare their real sizes and see how the usual map stretches them.

Gives every 3 metre square on Earth its own three-word address. Useful for pointing someone to a spot that has no street address.

A satellite map where users outline and describe places, from landmarks down to single buildings. A wiki laid over the map.