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VNTG vs Zoom Earth
Last updated 2026-08-06
Zoom Earth is built around live weather — storms, hurricanes and cloud imagery. VNTG covers live weather too, but its focus is resolution: finding the sharpest free aerial or satellite image of a specific coordinate, with its capture date and a georeferenced download.
Side by side
| Zoom Earth | VNTG | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Live weather & storm tracking | Sharpest imagery of a point |
| Live cloud / weather satellite | Yes | Yes (GOES, Himawari) |
| Precipitation radar | Yes | Yes (RainViewer) |
| Wildfire detections | Yes | Yes (NASA FIRMS, with FRP per detection) |
| High-resolution aerial (5–20 cm) | No | Yes — ~35 sources incl. national orthos |
| Per-point capture dates | No | Yes |
| Historical imagery to 2014 | Limited | Yes — Esri Wayback |
| Georeferenced GeoTIFF download | No | Yes |
| Price | Free (premium tier exists) | Free |
Which should you use?
Watching a hurricane? Zoom Earth. Looking closely at one place on the ground, or needing the file? VNTG.
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