A slider allows users to compare current orthophotos with images from previous years (e.g., 2013, 2017, 2021). Environmentalists use this to track illegal logging or shoreline erosion. Citizens use it to prove that a neighbor’s new fence encroached on their land.
During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Georgian officials discreetly used maps.gov.ge to verify that no shelling had landed on Georgian territory. International donor organizations (EU, World Bank, UNDP) now require their local partners to reference maps.gov.ge for any land-based project. Maps.gov.ge is not flashy. There are no 3D fly-throughs, no augmented reality gimmicks. What it offers is rarer and more valuable: trust . Every day, thousands of Georgians—farmers, lawyers, students, engineers, police officers—open their browsers and know that the lines on the screen match the ground beneath their feet. maps gov ge
Or take Giorgi, a small-scale developer in Batumi. Before buying a plot, he checks the portal: Is the land zoned for multi-family housing? Is there an active mortgage? Does it fall inside a protected coastal zone? All answers appear on his laptop screen. A slider allows users to compare current orthophotos
From bridges and gas pipelines to schools and polling stations, the portal layers critical infrastructure. During the 2023 heavy floods in Racha region, emergency services used maps.gov.ge to identify vulnerable settlements, plan evacuation routes, and coordinate road-clearing crews. There are no 3D fly-throughs, no augmented reality gimmicks