Create Your Own Aerial Imagery Map

MapKnitter is a free and open source tool for aligning and creating maps from overhead images.

The tool allows anyone to take a single aerial image or a series of aerial images and align them, with the help of Google Maps satellite view. Images maps created with MapKnitter can be exported in GeoTiff, TMS/OpenLayers, and JPG formats.

You can explore maps created with the tool by location and the most recent maps are also featured on the home page of MapKnitter.

The Big Blue Marble on Google Maps

Earth Snapshot

Earth Snapshot is a website dedicated to the observation of the Earth. The site posts daily satellite images and provides information on storms, hurricanes, fires and meteorological phenomena.

The website includes a map created with the Google Maps API and satellite images from the Envisat satellite. The map also includes map markers to show the location of the last 100 articles on Earth Snapshot.

The articles take a closer look at the most interesting of the latest satellite images. The map markers are categorised to indicate if the related article concerns the weather, environment or a fire etc.

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View GeoEye Images with Google Maps

Geofuse - GeoEye Map

The GeoFuse GeoEye Map allows you to explore GeoEye satellite imagery on Google Maps. You can search for any location in the world and view the available satellite imagery from GeoEye directly on the map.

The current satellite images for any map view are listed in the map sidebar, with information about when the image was taken. You can click on any selected satellite image to get further details, such as which satellite the image is from and what the conditions were like at the time of its capture.

It is also possible to download the foot print data resulting from a search and to get a unique URL for each search.

Via: Mapperz

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