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  2. Geography of Chile - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Chile. The geography of Chile is extremely diverse, as the country extends from a latitude of 17° South to Cape Horn at 56° and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Andes in the east. Chile is situated in southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean and a small part of the South Atlantic Ocean.

  3. Satellite imagery - Wikipedia

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    Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world. Satellite imaging companies sell images by licensing them to governments and businesses such as Apple Maps and Google Maps .

  4. List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data

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    This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as ...

  5. Ancud - Wikipedia

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    Ancud ( Spanish pronunciation: [aŋˈkuð]) is a city in southern Chile located in the northernmost part of the island and province of Chiloé, in Los Lagos Region. It is the second largest city of Chiloé Archipelago after Castro. The city was established in 1768 to function as the capital of the archipelago and held that position until 1982.

  6. South-up map orientation - Wikipedia

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    South-up map orientation is the orientation of a map with south up, at the top of the map, amounting to a 180-degree rotation of the map from the standard convention of north-up. Maps in this orientation are sometimes called upside down maps or reversed maps. [citation needed] Other maps with non-standard orientation include T and O maps, polar ...

  7. Yahoo! Maps - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! [3] Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and local reviews powered by Yelp. [citation needed] It shut down on June 30, 2015. For a time in 2019, Yahoo!

  8. San Pedro Verfrut Airport - Wikipedia

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    Verfrut Airport ( Spanish: Aeropuerto de San Pedro Verfrut, ( ICAO: SCVF )) is an airstrip 14 kilometres (9 mi) south-southeast of San Pedro, a town in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile. The airport is also 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of the Estación Terrena Longovilo (es), a large satellite communications facility.

  9. Restrictions on geographic data in China - Wikipedia

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    The Google Maps street map is offset by 50–500 meters from its satellite imagery. [11] [25] Yahoo! Maps also displayed the street map without major errors when compared to the satellite imagery. [26] MapQuest overlays OpenStreetMap data perfectly as well. [27]