Drop the pin where you want the photo

Map in FotoNoa

The sky seen from above, laid over the real terrain: the circle is your horizon and the arc is the path the Sun or the Moon takes across the day, with the hour marked. You drop a pin where you want the photo and you know when the Sun, the Moon or the Milky Way passes right through it.

What it has

• On Google's map: streets, sharp satellite imagery and terrain
• The whole day at a glance, not the direction at one instant
• Line up: the exact date and time the Sun or the Moon falls on your frame
• Search by name, coordinates, a Google Maps link, the location saved in a photo, or where your phone is
• Terrain view, to see how high the real horizon sits
• Street View, to scout the spot before you drive out there
• Favorites, to come back to the places you always shoot

How to use Map

It's the same help you get inside the app. In case you want to read it before downloading, or out in the field with barely any signal.

1. 1Read the drawing

   The white circle is the horizon you see standing at the blue pin, and the center is straight above your head. The closer to the center something is, the higher it sits in the sky.

2. 2The two pins

   The blue pin with the little camera is you, the spot you'll be shooting from. The purple pin is what you want to photograph: a hill, a lighthouse, a church.

3. 3Moving them

   Press and hold a pin, then drag it. A plain tap doesn't move them, on purpose, so they never shift by accident; and if you press and hold anywhere on the map, the blue pin jumps there.

4. 4Slide the time

   The bar at the bottom moves time, and with it the line pointing at the Sun or the Moon. The disc is drawn on the curve at the hour you picked.

5. 5Use «Line up»

   With both pins placed, the button finds the date and time the Sun or the Moon falls right on your frame. The line turns red when they line up.

6. 6Scout the spot without driving there

   The terrain view shows how far the real horizon rises, so no hill hides the sunrise on you. And Street View lets you look at the place before you drive out there.