Geo related
Tool
Description
Banjo
Mobile app available for Android & IOS. Searching for geotagged posts in social media at a specified location / address. You can thus find witnesses to an event by checking who posted something. Don't forget to check out Banjo Discovery.
Microsoft satellite and mapping service.
Pros: More recent and higher resolution imagery than Google, e.g. in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Cons: Difficult to check the date of the imagery.
Convert geographic coordinates between different notation styles.
Satellite imagery vendor. Preview available via the catalogus, search tool very easy to use.
Combines Google’s road maps, aerial view, and street view in one embeddable tool.
Geobased search tool
Geobased searches. Twitter, VKontakte, Foursquare.
Cons: $ (doesn’t list Facebook, genuine Instagram)
Provides information about history, people, government, economics, geography, communication, transport, military, and cross-border issues for 267 countries.
Georeferenced images.
Database of location names. Wide variety of different spellings in various languages.
Add a Bing Maps satellite imagery layer. Historical imagery. Training guides here.
Open-access satellite imagery and analytical framework.
Pros: Virtually any satellite imagery collected from NASA, NOAA, USGS, etc. is available.
Cons: Moderate and coarse resolution imagery rather than high-resolution commercial imagery; Learning curve with Javascript.
Pros: StreetView, many large cities in U.S., Europe, modelled in 3D.
Cons: No historical satellite imagery, but historic streetview images available in many places.
More recent satellite imagery than Google in e.g. Iraq.
Provinces of the so-called Islamic State
Interactive live map of conflict news. Variety of countries available: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, U.S., Ukraine, Venezuela, etc.
Calculate amount of people that are standing in selected Google Maps area.
Crowdsourced street level photos. Useful addition to Google Streetview. Little to no coverage in countries like Syria, Iraq, etc.
Alternative map service with street views.
Alternative map service.
Geotagged VKontakte posts. No english version what i could find.
Radiant.Earth enables users to explore an unlimited number of Earth imagery-related resources via an open and neutral pathway, meaning that these resources may be publicly or commercially available.
Updated every 5-10 days with new imagery, dependent on cloud cover. Ability to explore a variety of GIS variables eg NDVI or NDWO. Generally low resolution of 10m/px.
Maps related to Syria
Satellite imagery vendor. Highest resolution available (0.3m). $ to preview high-resolution satellite imagery.
Crowdsourced information related to geographic locations. Possibility to switch between Google/Bing/OSM. Massive amount of UCG information. Can be laggy, and need to refresh page after a view searches.
Database with statistics about countries
Geobased searches. Twitter, VKontakte, Instagram
Cons: $ (but does list Instagram)
Alternative map service.
Geobased searches on Youtube.
Cons: Unclear whether it shows where it was uploaded, from which server, or only filters on keywords (e.g. “Paris” in title shows up in Paris).