Istanbul, from directly above
41.0082° N 28.9784° E · Turkey
Sharpest free source hereEsri World Imagery
Resolution30 cm/px
Free · no signup · view, download a georeferenced GeoTIFF, or time-travel to 2014.
The sharpest free view of Istanbul
VNTG checks ~35 free imagery sources — national aerial surveys, Esri, live Sentinel-2 — and serves whichever is sharpest for the exact point you click. For Istanbul that's Esri World Imagery at 30 cm/px. Unlike a plain map, you can download it georeferenced, see the date it was captured, step back to 2014, and render the latest satellite pass. You're looking at the Bosphorus and the old city.
What you can do with Istanbul in VNTG
- Look closer than Google, free — down to 30 cm/px.
- Download a georeferenced GeoTIFF (EPSG:3857) or PNG + world file.
- Time-travel — step Istanbul back through every year since 2014 (Esri Wayback).
- See it fresh — render the latest Sentinel-2 pass, usually days old.
- Live overlays — active fires, cloud/weather, and precipitation radar.