Evidence Navigator · adapted from the evidence taxonomy
Maps, satellite images & distances
Web maps, satellite views, and computed distances — the everyday geography of family cases: how far apart the homes are, where the school sits, what a relocation would mean in miles. Florida has a statute exactly for this.
Wired to the law it implements
Retrieved live from the source-locked corpus — never generated.
“widely accepted web mapping service, global satellite imaging site, or Internet mapping tool, if such image, map, location, distance, calculation, or other information indicates the date on which the information was created.”The five gates, for this item type
Neutral education — each gate runs separately, and passing one is never presented as admissibility. The Five Gates page carries the full statutory walk.
- Relevance
Distance and geography commonly matter in timesharing and relocation disputes — the map earns its place when the distance is actually contested.
- Authentication
Section 90.2035 supplies a judicial-notice lane for widely accepted mapping services — WITH conditions: the image must show its creation date, and notice must be filed. Outside that lane, a map is authenticated like any other exhibit.
- Hearsay
A map offered through the judicial-notice lane avoids much of the fight; a screenshot annotated by a party adds that party's own assertions on top.
- Best evidence
Keep the capture whole — the address bar, the date, the scale. A cropped map without its markers invites the accuracy fight.
- Privilege
Rarely implicated — but a map marking a confidential address (a shelter, a protected residence) is a safety problem before it is an exhibit.
The organizer checklist
Generic, neutral, and yours to select from — organization, never legal acts. The Evidence Organizer is where the log lives.
- Capture the image WITH its creation date visible — the statute's own condition
- Record the exact URL or pathway where the image can be accessed and inspected
- File the notice of intent the statute describes, within the time the court sets
- Keep the unannotated original separate from any marked-up copy
- Log the capture in the Organizer with what it is offered to show
Objections to expect — as education
- Improper judicial noticeThe objection says a party is asking the court to 'just know' something outside the notice statutes — or skipped § 90.203's own mechanics: timely written notice with proof filed, and sufficient information supplied..
- Lack of authenticationThe objection says nobody has shown the item is what it claims to be — the condition precedent the statute states in one sentence..
- RelevanceThe objection says the item does not tend to prove or disprove a fact that matters in this case — however dramatic it may be..
Getting this class of evidence INTO the case has its own rulebook — the Procedure Matrix maps disclosure, discovery, and the subpoena to the family rules that govern them.
Where this page stops
Whether YOUR maps, satellite images & distances clear these gates depends on facts and foundations this page cannot see and will not guess. Independent attorney review is the route for judgment.
Statutory excerpts are verbatim from the hash-verified corpus; statutory text renders in English as enacted. Legal information, not legal advice.