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For geographic verification only. A photo you drop is read in your browser for its GPS position and never uploaded. Every change carries a grid cell and a sentence about both photos, so you can check it by eye before you write about it. How it works
These are the mechanical checks. They run on the photos and their records, with no model involved, before the AI reads anything.
How it works
Two passes. The first is mechanical: it lists every dated photo the archive holds for your spot, removes duplicates, and checks the pair you picked for the traps that fool the eye, with no model involved. The second is the AI: it reads both photos cell by cell and says what is gone and what is new. Every change must name what is visible in the first photo and in the second; a change that does not is thrown away before it reaches you.
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One click: the AI finds the changes, then you get a movie of them.
The AI reads exactly what the map shows now, the square in the middle, and reports changes per grid cell. Takes 20 to 60 seconds.
Search a place to list its photos.
Source. Esri World Imagery Wayback: every version of Esri's satellite basemap since February 2014, kept as dated releases. For your spot the tool asks which releases hold a different photo, then reads each photo's capture date, resolution and provider from Esri's records.
Zoom matters. The dated high-resolution photos live at zoom 16 to 18. Further out both sides can show the same coarse mosaic; further in there may be no archive photo.
Not every change is there. Esri updates a place when it has new imagery, sometimes years apart. The archive holds what Esri published, not every image a satellite took.
Credit. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS user community. Place search: Photon (komoot) and Nominatim, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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