Satellite images concretise several interwoven levels of ensembles and milieux, the purely technical of its capture, the networked technical of its dissemination and storage, Google Maps images are documentations of a specific place, but also documents the relations between certain technologies, mediums and formats, as well as specific ways of seeing and experiencing maps, landscapes, cityscapes, and images. The invisual technical processes in the background of these images create an artificial presence of the city in our image consciousness. (Wiesing 2011) The individuation of these images as objects relies on a process of both difference and unity (Hui 2016), as the medium and format of these images oscillates continuously between representation and function, aesthetics and operation. Google Maps is given to the viewer as an image of coherent unity, and present themselves as authoritative documentation of the landscape. But the images are composed of a differential variety of processes, files, and objects.  A relational ecological materialisation takes place which gives a new perspective on documents of the physical city, as both depictions and versions of the city in their own right. While documenting the city, satellite images intervenes in the materiality of the actual city as a media ecology.