Terrain Viewer
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Open In

Hand the current viewport off to other web map viewers — River-REM, Search-EO, ESRI Wayback, Google Earth/Maps, BBBike, or your own URL template

The Open in … split button (bottom of the General section; also in the historical timeline footer) opens the current viewport in another web viewer, carrying the camera position over so you land on the same spot. Picking a destination from the dropdown opens it immediately and remembers it as the default for the main button.

The Open in split button in the Compare and Blend section with its destination menu open: Iconem River-REM, Iconem Search-EO, ESRI Wayback Machine, Google Maps 3D, Google Earth Historical, Google Earth 3D, Bing Maps 3D, BBBike MapCompare, and Add custom

The Open in launcher — the main button opens the remembered destination, the arrow lists the others and Add custom…

Destinations

The zoom-to-camera translation is destination-specific — e.g. the Google Earth/Maps links convert the map zoom into a viewing altitude, and ESRI Wayback gets the latest release id resolved live for the current location.

Custom destinations

Add custom… accepts your own URL template with either placeholder family:

  • {lat} / {lng} / {zoom} — e.g. https://example.com/?lat={lat}&lng={lng}&zoom={zoom}
  • slippy-tile {z} / {x} / {y} — e.g. https://example.com/#{z}/{x}/{y}

Custom entries appear in the same dropdown and can be removed from it at any time.

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