Internet resources: St. – Petersburg panoramas on Yandex maps

Yandex maps are launching St. – Petersburg panoramas. Now Internet users now have an opportunity to enjoy the Church of the Saviour on Blood, the famous Nevsky Prospect, and St. Isaac’s Cathedral on the city’s map. Apart from the St. – Petersburg itself Internet users can virtually visit Peterhof, Pushkin, Pavlovsk, Kronstadt, Vyborg, and Gatchina.

Panoramas enable users to look at the city’s sights, zoom in or out and even stroll along the streets. The service helps to orient yourself in a unfamiliar city — thus, before setting off for un unknown city it may be worth finding out how the booked hotel looks like. The user can send a link to the map for his guests for them to get an idea which his house is.

By the way, the first "Streets’ panoramas" of Moscow were released in autumn 2009. Detailed maps of St. – Petersburg were launched on Yandex in 2004, whereas mobile maps and first satellite pictures of the city were mounted– 3 years later, in 2007. From March 2008 St. – Petersburg maps have been providing information on traffic jams. In 2009 the website unveiled “Planes” and “Trains” – services, which allow tracking current runs right on the map.