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Red Beacons. Yandex map.

Allows you to: change the scale; measure distances; switch display modes - scheme, satellite view, hybrid. The Yandex-maps mechanism is used, it contains: districts, street names, house numbers, and other objects of cities and large villages, allows you to perform search by address(square, avenue, street + house number, etc.), for example: "Lenin street 3", "Red Mayaki hotels", etc.

If you did not find something, try the section Google Satellite Map: Red Lighthouses or a vector map from OpenStreetMap: Red Lighthouses.

Link to the selected object on the map can be sent by e-mail, icq, sms or posted on the site. For example, to show the meeting point, delivery address, location of a store, cinema, train station, etc.: align the object with the marker in the center of the map, copy the link on the left above the map and send it to the addressee - by the marker in the center, he will determine the place you specified .

Red Lighthouses - online map with a satellite view: streets, houses, districts and other objects.

To change the scale, use the "mouse" scroll wheel, the "+ -" slider on the left, or the "Zoom in" button in the upper left corner of the map; to view a satellite view or a national map - select the corresponding menu item in the upper right corner; to measure the distance - click the ruler at the bottom right and put points on the map.

Krasnoyarsk Krai - Krasnye Mayaki: interactive map from Yandex. A vector diagram and a photo from a satellite - with streets and houses, roads, address search and routing, measuring distances, the ability to get a link to the selected object on the map - to send to the addressee or place on the site.

If you carefully look at Google maps, you can notice several hidden places, they are prohibited from showing.

Let's find out more about them.

1. Baker Lake, Inuit territory in northern Canada

The man, who identified himself as "Dr. Boylan", believes that the darkened area in this picture and in several other locations hides extraterrestrial beacons of aliens.

2. Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany

This NATO air base is the starting point for Operation Iraqi Freedom forces, and for this reason, it can certainly be a target for terrorist attacks. This may explain why this feature is partially cut from Google Maps.

3. Pacific Northwest, USA

What exactly are we not seeing in this photo? This place is located near the border of the states of Washington and Oregon. Enthusiasts personally examined this place and found nothing remarkable, except for the sinister appearance of the fence and the unmarked entrance.

4. Shazalombatta Oil Refinery, Hungary

This is one of the strangest examples of censorship in Google Maps - this place is simply painted over in green. The factory area has been removed, the buildings have been erased, and all you can see is regular grass.

5. Huis Ten Palace, Holland

It's hard to imagine that the Dutch royal family could be the prime target for a crazed terrorist, but the royal palace of Huis Ten is heavily blurred on Google Maps from any angle. (However, the surrounding area and trees can be seen with crystal clarity at close magnification.)

6. Unknown zone, Russia

No one knows what is hidden in this region. One of the opinions is that there is " radar station or a missile interception system”, and some claim that the image of the surrounding area is pasted from another region of Russia.

7. Mobil Oil Corporation, Buffalo, New York, USA

Some criticize Buffalo-based Mobil for blurring images of its operations, saying that oil corporations are not of much interest to terrorists. On the other hand, we do not know what the terrorists themselves think.

8. North Korea

Everyone has heard of this country, which is part of the supposed "Axis of Evil", but very few have ever visited it. You won't see it on Google Maps either, as the entire country exists in the imagery, but without road markers, street names, or any other identifying details.

9. Reims Air Base, France

The reasons why this air force base is blocked from Google Maps are unknown.

10. Indian Point Power Plant, New York, USA

Many members of the United States government called for a shutdown of the Indian Point power plant. Environmental considerations aside, according to energy experts, the power plant is not strong enough to withstand an earthquake like the one that recently devastated Japan.

11. Volkel Air Base, Holland

It is rather amusing to see how this air base is grossly blurred on satellite images, however, WikiLeaks has published diplomatic correspondence that confirms the presence of nuclear warheads on the territory of this base.

12. HAARP, Gakona, Alaska, USA

HAARP (High Frequency Northern Lights Research Program) is one of the most controversial operations currently underway in the United States. Gakona, the site of research, and the ionosphere experiments there, are revered by some conspiracy theorists as the cause of everything from floods to earthquakes, but there is very little evidence for this.

13. Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, Salinas, California, USA

This is one of the strangest examples of censorship on Google Maps: the Laguna Seca race track in Salinas, California. The strangest thing about this is the fact itself: this is an apparently harmless race track.

14. Babylon, Iraq

While the surrounding area is perfectly visible, the city of Babylon itself is blurred in the pictures. One can argue that this has something to do with the rebels there ...

15. Tantauco National Park, Chile

Why is this endangered species sanctuary completely cut out of Google Maps? Nobody knows.

16. "Hill", correctional facility in Elmira, USA

This is a prison top level reliability in New York State. Perhaps, after the Attica prison riots and several incidents of uprisings and mass escapes around the world, the authorities may indeed be worried about the possibility of helicopter escapes.

17. House of Alexey Miller, Russia

According to Wikipedia, this place is the "private palace of the executive director of JSC Gazprom Alexei Miller." But why is he given preference over all other people? Maybe we're just not powerful enough to convince Google to cut out our homes from satellite imagery.

18. Colonel Sanders

This is the strangest fact from Google: Colonel Sanders, the face of the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, does not appear in any of the Google Street View images. This is because, according to Google representatives, Sanders was a real person, and images of real people should be blurred in any pictures.

19. Faro Islands, Denmark

It is believed that in this zone there are some non-advertised military installations.

20. NATO Headquarters, Portugal

This shot would be the funniest if it didn't have such an ominous context. Whoever edited the image of NATO's Portuguese Headquarters simply copied another area of ​​the earth's surface over the image of the building. Very strange.

21. Seabrook Nuclear Station, New Hampshire

Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant is believed to be located in this northeastern United States.

22. Missile mine, Spain

According to one researcher, “At this site is a small building with what looks like a missile silo in the middle. What is strange is that this area is not blocked in Yahoo! Maps, but its image is not Google Maps.

23. Nuclear zone, France

We're not quite sure what "The Marcoule site of the Commissariat l'Energie Atomique" means, but we think "atomique" is the key here.

The satellite "map" of Yandex has a rather whimsical internal structure. It consists of several coverages of the Earth's surface, which correspond to different scale intervals. The roughest "map" is used for scales from 1:5,000,000 (50 kilometers in 1 cm) and smaller. On this scale, you can place on the screen of the tablet the entire Moscow region or the entire water area of ​​the White Sea, part of which is selected as the background for this question. This map is compiled from a large number of individual frames taken by the OLI camera on the Landsat 8 satellite. All frames taken by this camera are published in the public domain by the USGS, which is the operator of Landsat 8. The pictures were taken at different times of the year. It seems that on this "map" both in the southern and northern hemispheres it is spring at the same time. One of the features of the OLI camera is that on frames taken with this camera, you can automatically select areas covered with clouds. On the small-scale "map" of Yandex, for each point on the Earth's surface, an image is selected in which this particular point is not covered. The "map" is assembled in such a way that there are no sharp boundaries between fragments of different frames. Such a map is called "seamless coverage".

If you zoom in further - go to a scale of 1:1,000,000 and larger, then the picture is divided into rectangular stripes. The fact is that the resolution of the OLI camera is about 30 m per pixel, so the details visible on a large scale cannot be seen on the OLI frames. For more detailed coverage, Yandex purchases data from several satellite operators equipped with cameras high resolution, - DigitalGlobe and the Indian Space Agency. The Roscosmos Corporation also has such satellites - Resurs-P No. 1 and the recently launched Resurs-P No. 2. Perhaps the data from these satellites is also already used by Yandex. In order to capture the entire surface of the Earth with high resolution, it takes much more time, so Yandex still does not have enough data for seamless coverage and we see the boundaries of individual frames. Satellite operators try to capture the land surface first of all, so the most lack of frames is for the waters of the seas and oceans. In addition, not all high-resolution satellites can reliably and automatically recognize clouds, so sometimes cloud fragments get on the map. It is this - stripes of gluing individual frames and fragments of cloudiness - that are visible in the image of the White Sea to the northeast of the Dvina Bay, which was chosen as a background for this question.

You can read more about the data used by Yandex Maps on a special page on the Company's website (yandex.ru).

Mikhail Anatolyevich, apparently, you mean images similar to the "grid of streets" located near the Canary Islands (see on Google Maps https://goo.gl/maps/cLYApjFSgBS2).

Two things should be noted. Firstly, this is not a satellite image, but a visualization of the bottom relief map - bathymetry. Secondly, this is not an ancient city, but the result of combining maps of different scales.
The construction of bottom relief maps is much more difficult than the construction of topographic maps for the land surface. The fact is that the main methods of relief mapping used on land: echolocation in the radio range, optical stereo imaging and laser sounding, are not applicable to the surface of the ocean floor, since radio waves and light do not penetrate through the water column. Two methods remain: satellite gravimetry and acoustic echolocation. Satellite gravimetry records distortions in the shape of the water surface over underwater mountain ranges. This method made it possible for the first time to construct bathymetric maps of the entire surface of the ocean floor, but the accuracy of this method is still significantly inferior to acoustic echolocation. Therefore, scientists use different mathematical methods to combine global gravimetric charts and sailing directions along the main routes of the merchant fleet. As a result, “grooves” appear on the flat bottom surface reconstructed from gravimetric data, which correspond to more detailed acoustic echolocation data. This is exactly what we see in the picture.

The Earth Observation team at the US National Geophysical Data Center has been photographing nighttime continents from satellite year after year, discovering the most unexpected socio-economic trends in the process.

red dots on a comparative map means that in 10 years light appeared in these geographical points.
yellow- Night lights have become stronger.
Blue- the light in these places went out.

Night Lights of the World is one of the projects of the Earth Observation Group (EOG) at the US National Geophysical Data Center (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). EOG serves the U.S. Air Force and Aerospace Meteorological Services by archiving and analyzing data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) of the U.S. Department of Defense. In addition to observing the weather, 4 satellites that have been working for the program since 1993 also record the intensity of light radiation on the Earth's surface, not only in the visible spectrum, but also in the infrared range (including city lighting, Forest fires, torches on oil rigs, etc.).

Initially, night illumination was calculated in order to determine the location of clouds by the reflection of moonlight, but then it was realized that where there are no clouds, night illumination reflects interesting socio-economic trends and allows us to assess the degree and nature of development of a particular region of the world. For example, it turned out that the intensity of night lighting is directly proportional to the country's GDP.

Despite the fact that the complete "light" picture of the world is compiled twice a day, 365 days a year, a comparative map was made and made available to the public for only one couple of years - 1993 and 2003. First of all, because this is a very time-consuming procedure: it is necessary to normalize the data and neutralize weather effects that strongly affect the illumination, such as, for example, snowfalls. However, the agency accepts orders for calculation of other years - 77 thousand dollars per order.

RUSSIA

Blue dots in Russia

From 1991 to 2003, simultaneously with the reduction of the country's population by 9 million people, more than 290 cities and 11,000 villages disappeared from the map of the country. Another 13 thousand villages continued to appear on the maps, but in fact there were no residents left in them. significant portion settlements, according to the site www.dead-cities.ru, was abandoned after the cessation of deforestation and mining due to supply difficulties and the high cost of infrastructure, as well as the disbandment of military garrisons. The smaller one was abolished due to the dilapidation of the housing stock and as a result of forced relocation during the construction of oil terminals.

Red dots in Western Siberia

A large number of red dots on the territory of Western Siberia speaks not so much about the development of cities, but about increasing oil production: all these are torches on oil rigs, in which the so-called “associated gas”, a by-product of oil production, burns. Every year, for economic, organizational and technical reasons, about 30% of APG is flared in Russia, which, according to the World Wildlife Fund, is 12% of the total emissions of harmful substances in the country.

EUROPE

Red dots in Romania

End of overnight blackouts in Romania. It is believed that the communist dictator Ceausescu often cut off electricity and gas to the population, even when it was not economically justified - as a deterrent. In the 1980s, there was no street light in the country almost everywhere. In 1989, Ceausescu was overthrown, but from a deep economic crisis the country was able to withdraw only towards the end of the 1990s.

Blue dots in Moldova

The Republic of Moldova, recognized in 2005 by the World Bank as the poorest state in Europe, during the 1990s lost more in GDP than any other country in the world. The precipitous fall of the economy and the closure of hundreds industrial enterprises on the territory of the country led to a colossal decrease in domestic demand for electricity, which, in turn, led to a catastrophic drop in electricity production at the Moldavskaya GRES. By 2005, it had decreased by 90% compared to 1990. As a result, the country has turned from an exporter into a sustainable importer of electricity from Russia and Ukraine.

Blue dots in the North Sea

The blue dots in the North Sea, one of the world's most important oil and gas regions, are decommissioned oil rigs. In the next 20 years, their number will steadily continue to decline. On the one hand, drilling new fields in the North Sea is an expensive and dangerous business, on the other hand, oil reserves in this region are already half exhausted.

Red dots in Ireland

The highest density of new lights in Europe falls on Ireland, which is not surprising - in the early 1990s, rapid economic growth began in the country, reaching 9.5% per year by the end of the century and most affecting the construction industry. By 2003, the country, which for the past two centuries was one of the poorest in Europe, came out in terms of growth rates among the most developed European countries.

Red dots in the former Yugoslavia

In 1993, there was a civil war in Bosnia and Croatia. Peace in Kosovo remained fragile, but the economy was paralyzed by the Serbian-Albanian conflict and civil disobedience. By 2003, Milosevic was already in prison, and Croatian resorts were bursting with tourists.

NORTH AMERICA

Blue dots in the USA, on the west coast

The vanished lights are visible throughout most of the western United States, but are most prominent in rural areas of central Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska. From the depression of the 1930s until 1996, most farmers worked for government contracts. Every year they planted those crops that the state prescribed for them, which then bought the crop at a bargain price. In 1996, President Bill Clinton introduced the "Right to Farm" program, which replaced the state order with guaranteed, but decreasing every year, subsidies. 2003 was the first year that financial assistance for the program ended completely.

Yellow dots in the USA, on the east coast

The terrorist attacks of September 2001 shook the American economy, but thanks to the general stability at that time financial system the market almost fully recovered from the shock in a few months. According to the latest data, as a result of terrorist attacks, the country lost no more than 1% of GDP. East Coast metropolitan areas continued to grow steadily.

LATIN AMERICA

Red dots in the Amazon region in Latin America

Red dots in the area of ​​the Amazonian selva are not a sign of the emergence of life, but, on the contrary, of its destruction. From the early 1990s to 2004, 46 million hectares of forest were destroyed in Latin America and the Caribbean.

AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST

Red dots in Nigeria

Red dots in the Niger Delta are, first of all, flares in oil fields. Nigeria produces more and more oil, but almost does not collect the gas released. According to the World Wildlife Fund, the burning of associated natural gas accounts for about 1% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. More APG than in Nigeria is flared only in Russia, Iran, Iraq and Angola. In the United States, associated petroleum gas is used by 97%, in Norway - completely.

Yellow dots in Israel

The aggravation of the Arab-Israeli conflict did not prevent the rapid development of Israel. Since the beginning of the "second intifada" on September 28, 2000, when Ariel Sharon, a supporter of military operations against the Palestinian separatists, paid an official visit to the sacred place for both conflicting parties - the Temple Mount, the number of Israelis living in settlements in the Palestinian territories has grown one and a half times.

ASIA

red dots in india

Almost 70% of Indians still live in rural areas, but the migration of the population to big cities has led to a sharp increase in cities - in the period from 1991 to 2009. The number of urban residents in India increased from 217.2 million to 339.3 million.

blue dots in india

The state of Bihar and the east of the state of Uttar Pradesh of India is the most densely populated part of the globe and at the same time the poorest part of the country. Every year, the region suffers from floods of the Koshi River, which comes to the state from the Nepalese mountains. The blue dots on the map are obviously the consequences of the severe floods of 2000-2002, which destroyed almost a million residential buildings.

Red dots in Burma

The government of Burma, which has been led by the military who came to power as a result of the coup for 45 years, claims that in the period 1993-2003, GDP growth in the country amounted to 8.3%. But the lighting data says that the real figures are three times less than the official ones.

Red dots off the coast of Vietnam

One feature of the illumination method is that it is more sensitive to small luminous objects. This phenomenon causes trouble only to meteorologists, economists and sociologists; it plays into the hands. A large number of red dots off the coast of Vietnam are fishing boats, the number of which, according to the Associated Press, reaches at least 40 thousand (with 200 thousand people on board). The reason for this activity is the growth of the Vietnamese economy, associated not only with the transition from communism to a market economy, but also with the fact that since 2000 Vietnamese goods were finally allowed to enter the American market.