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Now, if you are trying to find information about a place in Soviet Union countries or in Russia, then

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I highly recommend that you use Yandex.maps because it has an extensive coverage in these areas.

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In addition to that, it has some features that other maps do not have.

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For example, it will show you metro maps and specific cities, and it will also show you real time

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public transportation and local business information for places in Russia or Soviet Union countries.

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So to use Yandex.maps, all you have to do is just to go to Yandex.

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Com and then click on maps and then a new tab will open and will redirect you to yandex.maps.

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Now let me search for the temple.

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So I'm going to search for Prashar Lake like this.

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And as you can see here, we can see the temple.

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And here is the lake.

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So I'm going to enable satellite view like this.

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And we can see that the image quality is very low because it's been captured in 2017, so it's not an

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up to date satellite image.

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We can also see that we do not have information about this place, so we cannot see opening or closing

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hours or pictures posted by people who visited this place.

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And this is because people either use Google Maps or Bing as a mapping service.

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So we can see that Yandex.maps is not very good to be used in many places, and it works the best in

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Russia and in Soviet Union countries.

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Now here I have searched for Moscow to show you the full potential of Yandex maps.

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So I'm going to zoom in and we can see that this image is from 2021.

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And what I've realized is that when you zoom in more, then you might be able to find a higher resolution

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picture.

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So let me zoom in and as you can see, the image has changed to another one, which is from 2020.

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Now let me show you some features that Yandex has.

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For example, if I clicked on here, we can see that we can select between a normal map or a satellite

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view.

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We can also see the traffic.

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So let's click on traffic.

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So these are real time traffic information.

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We can also select parking to see where you can park.

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And panoramas which is very similar to Street View panoramas or Street view is a little bit different

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in here because if we clicked on a certain path, for example, we can see that right now we can see

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a 360 view of the city.

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But the coolest thing about their panorama feature is that you can select the year when an image has

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been captured.

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For example, here we can see a 360 angle image that has been captured in 2023.

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But we can also come back to 2015 and see how this looked like.

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So I really think that this feature is unique, but the only downside is that it only works in some

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Settings.

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Another feature that I really like about Yandex Maps that only works in some areas is the real time

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public transport.

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So all you have to do just to click on this bus, and here you will see real time buses that are driving

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in the streets.

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So I really think that this is an awesome feature that Yandex.maps has.

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Now, the last feature that I would like to show you is the Metro map.

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So if you clicked on these three dots, you can see an option called Metro Map.

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And here you can see the Metro map of Moscow.

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You can select a different city if you would like to.

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There are only few cities that you can select from, so let's leave it this way.

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And here you can see the metro plan of Moscow, which I think is amazing.

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So as we can see, Yandex Maps has some other features that other maps do not have, like the metro

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maps or the real time public transportation and the ability to select in which year you want to see

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a 360 panorama image.