A web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, air and public transportation.
- [Bing Maps](https://www.bing.com/maps)
A web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines and powered by the Bing Maps for Enterprise framework.
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/)
A collaborative project to create a free editable geographic database of the world. The geodata underlying the maps is considered the primary output of the project.
- [Soar Earth](https://soar.earth/)
Allows you to explore and download satellite, aerial and drone imagery of the Earth.
- [Wayback World Imagery](https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/)
A digital archive of the world imagery base map, enabling users to access different versions of world imagery captured over the years.
The only search engine that includes over 115 million images and 54 satellite, aerial and DEM datasets from all around the world.
- [HereWeGo Maps](https://wego.here.com/)
A free mapping tool similar to Google Maps. They also offer a mobile application that allows you to download maps of areas for offline use. Very handy.
- [MapQuest](https://www.mapquest.com/)
A free online web mapping service. Allows you to find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions, nearby businesses, restaurants and hotels.
Maxar offers the most comprehensive suite of commercial satellite imagery. Highlight an area of interest, view and download historical satellite imagery. Requires a paid subscription for best results.
Just add location and receive a list of OSINT resources for that area. Maps/satellite imagery, photos, live weather, flight and maritime tracking, railways, peaks and even fitness device data.
- [NOAA Digital Coast](https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer)
Provides the data, tools, and training that communities use to manage their coastal resources. Here users find topics of interest from climate adaptation to ocean planning, plus quick access to the Digital Coast data, tools, and training most relevant to a particular topic.
- [Wikimapia](http://wikimapia.org)
A geographic online encyclopedia project. The project implements an interactive web map that utilizes popular mapping services with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.
- [City-Data](https://www.city-data.com/)
Collecting and analyzing data from a variety of government and private sources, they are able to create detailed, informative profiles for every city in the United States. From crime rates to weather patterns.
- [360cities](https://www.360cities.net/map)
Interactive map that lets you explore panoramic images taken in specific locations.
Land Viewer is a satellite observation imagery tool that allows for on-the-fly searching, processing and getting valuable insights from satellites data to tackle real business issues. Lets you mark and download satellite imagery. Requires a paid subscription for best results.
Interactive map of open waters, mangroves, swamps, fens, riverines, flood swamps, marshes, wet meadows and floodplains. Does not include every country.
- [FreeMapTools](https://www.freemaptools.com/)
An online resource that enables visitors to easily and quickly use maps in order to measure, search and overlay mark-up elements on maps for a wide range of useful applications.
- [ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World](https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/home/)
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is the foremost collection of geographic information from around the globe. It includes maps, apps, and data layers to support your work.
- [Overpass Turbo](https://overpass-turbo.eu/)
A web based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap. It runs any kind of Overpass API query and shows the results on an interactive map. Using it can get technical quite quickly, beginners may find the "wizard" a good place to start.
- [MapChannels](https://www.mapchannels.com/)
Lets users easily embed maps into websites and blogs. A number of tools are available to create maps from KML, GeoRSS or spreadsheet map data. A range of features and options let you customize the map appearance to meet a range of mapping needs.
Helps estimate the maximum amount of people standing within any given area. Great for fact checking.
- [ShadeMap](https://shademap.app/)
An amazing interactive map that displays where shadows fall in a specific location, at a specific time and date all from within a browser. It uses [Mapbox's 3D Dataset](https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/3d-buildings/) and was created by Twitter user [@truted2](https://twitter.com/truted2), be sure to follow him for updates on this project.
An interactive geospatial dataset that documents open source evidence of the systematic displacement and genocide of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
Provides precise mapping of radio frequency emissions. This unique ability to identify and geolocate sources of radio frequencies from space. Requires a paid subscription.
Is a project to collect crowdsourced street-level photographs for improving OpenStreetMap.
- [Mapillary](https://www.mapillary.com/app/)
A crowd-sourced street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping using collaboration, cameras, and computer vision.
- [Instant Street View](https://www.instantstreetview.com/)
Uses the Google Places Library Autocomplete service to quickly get the location you're looking for. It uses the street view service to display the street view panoramas and allows for easy bookmarking or sharing. It is fast and features clear images.
- [RouteView](https://routeview.org/VirtualRide/)
See your route via Google Street view. Requires a Google Maps API key.
## <u>**Political Maps**</u>
- [IR Map](https://www.ir-map.com/)
IR Map provides a clear and comprehensive picture of international relations between countries.
- [24 Time Zones](https://24timezones.com/timezone-map)
This interactive map represent time zones around the world and cities observing them. Just point at the city on the map or search it in the search field to see the detailed information.
- [Native Land](https://native-land.ca/)
A global map of first nations land and reservations.
- [CIVICUS Monitor](https://monitor.civicus.org/)
A research tool and map that provides close to real-time data on the state of civil society and civic freedoms in 196 different countries.
- [HateMap](https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map)
Provides information about various hate groups across the USA.
- [World Map of Encryption](https://www.gp-digital.org/world-map-of-encryption/)
An interactive world map that shows the the legal status of encryption by country. In some countries, the use of encryption-related technologies is relatively unconstrained; in others, companies and users face significant restrictions.
- [Global Military Base Map](http://u.osmfr.org/m/510207/)
An interactive map that provides information about different military bases and installations around the world. Uses OpenStreetMap data. Map created by [@GONZOs_int](https://twitter.com/GONZOs_int), go give him a follow!
An online service that provides global weather data via API, including current weather data, forecasts, nowcasts and historical weather data for any geographical location on Earth.
See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.
- [Windy](https://www.windy.com/)
View current worldwide wind and weather forecasts.
- [EIA Maps](https://www.eia.gov/maps/)
A collection of interactive maps for energy infrastructure, floods, real-time storm tracking and a wide variety of other data offered by the US Energy Information Administration.
Find historical weather information by searching for a city, postal code, or airport code. Include a date that you would like to see weather history for.
- [Ventusky](https://www.ventusky.com/)
Live wind, rain and temperature maps, detailed forecast for your place, data from the best weather forecast models such as GFS, ICON, GEM.
- [LightningMap](https://www.lightningmaps.org/)
See lightning strikes in real time across the planet. Free access to maps of former thunderstorms.
Contains information about wildland fire weather and smoke. From here you can access smoke forecasts, fire weather forecasts, fire information and track the movement of smoke.
- [NASA Fire Map](https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map)
A map of current fire hotpots from around the world provided by NASA.
- [NOAA NCEI Global Hazards Map](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/hazards/)
View natural hazards from around the world.
- [TornadoHQ](https://www.tornadohq.com/live/)
Displays live information and warnings about tornados in the U.S. on a map. They also provide a historical archive of tornado warnings.
A tool that lists current information about earthquakes happening around the world in near real-time.
- [Tertremo Live Earthquake Map](https://www.tertremo.com/)
An interactive map that shows you earthquakes and information about those earthquakes happening across the globe in near real-time.
- [GDACS](https://gdacs.org/)
The Global Disaster Alerting Coordination System (GDACS) provides real-time access to web‐based disaster information systems and related coordination tools.
- [Volcanoes And Earthquakes](https://www.volcanoesandearthquakes.com/)
A live interactive map that displays information about active volcanic eruptions and earthquakes currently taking place around the world.
- [Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program](https://volcano.si.edu/gvp_currenteruptions.cfm)
Another map and information source for current and historic global volcanic activity.
- [USGS Hawaii Lava Flows](https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hawaiian-volcano-observatory/lava-flow)
Provides information and tracking of lava flows and high-risk areas on the Hawaiian Islands. Click [here](https://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/1992/2193/) for the latest lava flow hazard map. Archived copies of the .pdf document are available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211010025640/https://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/1992/2193/mf2193.pdf) and [here (archive.today)](https://archive.ph/h9gbJ).
A pretty interesting mapping tool that lets you track sharks, turtles, whales and other ocean animals. Some of the data appears to be a few years old, but still cool.
A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and share information about the sources of free food in your neighborhood.
A collaborative platform for crowdsourced tree inventory, ecosystem services calculations and urban forestry analysis. Basically one giant database of trees.
- [NYC Street Tree Map](https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/)
The world's most accurate and detailed map of Ney York's street trees.
- [London Street Trees](https://apps.london.gov.uk/street-trees/)
A dataset of street trees in London, UK. There are currently 815,916 trees in this dataset.
- [Vancouver Street Trees](https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/street-trees/information/?disjunctive.species_name&disjunctive.common_name&disjunctive.height_range_id)
A dataset of street trees in Vancouver, BC Canada.
- [Toronto Street Trees](https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/street-tree-data/)
- [Map of the Internet](https://mapoftheinternet.com/)
A 3D interactive internet map, search engine, index and directory. Each domain, website, or any other internet address is represented by cubes in 3D space. Over 1 Billion internet domain hosts can be found on this map. Pretty neat.
Interesting collection of historical maps for ARPANET, the internet, Usenet, and other computer networks.
- [Indexmundi Internet Users by Country](https://www.indexmundi.com/map/?v=118)
Shows how internet use varies by country. The shade of the country corresponds to the magnitude of the indicator. The darker the shade, the higher the value.
A free interactive map of internet exchanges that depicts over 300 active exchanges and more than 500 buildings. Data contained in this map was complied by TeleGeography and is updated on a regular basis.
- [The Internet Mapping Project](https://www.cheswick.com/ches/map/)
Started at Bell Labs in the summer of 1998. Its goal is to acquire and save Internet topological data over a long period of time. This data has been used in the study of routing problems and changes, DDoS attacks, and graph theory.
This service provides users with precise internet connectivity data for all structures across the United States. Requires a paid subscription.
- [TeleGeography Global Internet Map 2021](https://global-internet-map-2021.telegeography.com/)
A collection of internet and telecom infrastructure maps.
- [US National Broadband Map](https://broadbandnow.com/national-broadband-map)
This national broadband map provides the most accurate, up-to-date map of availability and speeds in the U.S. It is also the first map that provides a national view of pricing down to the census block.
- [Pingdom Map](https://livemap.pingdom.com/)
A live map of internet downtime and statistics.
- [Internet Map](http://internet-map.net/)
An interactive map of the World Wide Web.
- [Halcyon 2021 Map of the Internet](https://www.halcyonmaps.com/map-of-the-internet-2021)
Inspired by design of historical maps, this project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web.
Presents the locations of tower sites for each licensed Canadian wireless provider. Each site is indicated by a color coded icon.
### **<u>Cellular Coverage Maps</u>**
- [CellMapper](https://www.cellmapper.net/map)
A crowd-sourced cellular tower and coverage mapping service for the USA. Maps actual coverage of cellular networks based on real life conditions and the coverage and signal strength of the network in areas that have been mapped.
An interactive gas map that provides a comprehensive source of facility and project data. Allows users to access the latest project data including facility status and ownership details, detailed pipeline information, industry gas information and more.
An awesome database of bridges from all over the world. Offers a search function as well. Click [here](https://www-brueckenweb-de.translate.goog/2content/suchen/suche.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui) for a German to English translation.
- [Bollards of the World](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Glk_gUpSThPqof22DKI3_ol73CULxCeKxEC99z_BM30/htmlview)
A great list of the different types bollards used around the world. Includes images as well. I converted this into a .pdf for offline use, available [here](https://anonfiles.com/90l8M8M7u8/Bollards-of-the-World_pdf). Archived copy available [here (Wayback)](https://web.archive.org/web/20211010055522/https://cdn-131.anonfiles.com/90l8M8M7u8/3fd7c7c4-1633845914/Bollards-of-the-World.pdf).
A heat map from athletes all over the world. Shows places that are popular spots for physical activity. Data collected from Strava, map updated monthly.
- [RideWithGPS](https://ridewithgps.com/users)
Find bicyclists by name and/or location, view maps and other information about their bicycle routes.
- [BikeMap](https://www.bikemap.net/)
The world's biggest bike route collection. Find cycling routes by country. Requires registration to upload your own data.
- [RunMap](http://www.runmap.net/en/)
One of the largest collections of running routes on the web. Allows you to extract GPS data.
- [WanderMap](http://www.wandermap.net/en/)
One of the largest collections of hike routes on the internet. Allows you to extract GPS data.
- [World Map of OSINT Tools](https://cipher387.github.io/osintmap/)
An awesome collection of OSINT tools plotted and sorted on a map. Created by [@cyb_detective](https://twitter.com/cyb_detective), be sure to give him a follow!
- [I Know Where Your Cat Lives](https://iknowwhereyourcatlives.com/)
A data visualization experiment that locates a sample of one million public images of cats on a world map by the latitude and longitude coordinates that is embedded in the images EXIF data.
- [ShadowCalculator](http://shadowcalculator.eu/)
Display building shadows on google maps for specified location and time. Calculate the azimuth and altitude of the sun.
- [GigaPan](http://www.gigapan.com/)
Provides hardware, software, and services to create and share high-resolution, interactive gigapixel panoramic images.
- [Speed Camera DB](https://www.scdb.info/en/karte/)
A worldwide interactive map of speed cameras and speed traps.
- [Wheelmap](https://wheelmap.org/)
A global wheelchair accessibility map.
- [World Map of Social Networks](https://vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/)
A map that details the most popular social networks per country. Also provides a wealth of statistics.
- [World Map of Alphabets](https://www.key-shortcut.com/en/writing-systems/world-map-of-alphabets-scripts)
A great resource for identifying where in the world a specific written language or script is from.
This site helps you calculate how far can someone go from a place in a specific time period. Search by any location in the world, means of transport, and time period.
An interactive that tells you which McDonalds locations currently have broken ice cream machines. Probably one of the best uses of OSINT I have ever seen.
