Does this mean I can zoom in even further in Google Maps??
Bigfoot now visible in commercial satellite images
Last March the USA noticed a market disparity: French companies could sell higher-resolution satellite images than American companies. By June of the same year bans on US companies selling sharper space snaps were lifted. And last week the US company agitating for that change, DigitalGlobe, started to sell 30cm-resolution snaps …
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Wednesday 4th March 2015 10:57 GMT phuzz
The highest level of detail on most mapping services is usually photographs taken from aircraft, rather than satellites.
Although only populated areas get the high-res treatment, that said, after a few minutes of looking, I've not found anywhere that only has satelite pictures, even this tiny road junction in Algeria seems to have an impressive level of detail.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go travel the world from my desk.
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Wednesday 4th March 2015 14:04 GMT AndyS
Algeria
That's impressive resolution for a dusty road in Africa, but it's probably still a satellite image. Resolution has typically been around 1m for Google Earth satellite images for a while, which is probably around what that image is.
1m: Basic shape of a car is visible
0.3m: details like sunroofs, people standing around the car etc become obvious
For comparison, check out this aerial shot from the centre of Edinburgh:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=55.94584,-3.194669&spn=0.000429,0.000868&t=h&z=21
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Wednesday 4th March 2015 12:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Just an update would be nice on Google maps
I live in Greater Manchester. The aerial photos of my local town centre on Google maps are over 10 years old, so maybe they could buy some of these new images and update their maps from pre-2005! (having said that, twice a year they update streetview images for the cul-de-sac I live on!)
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Wednesday 4th March 2015 18:23 GMT Will Godfrey
Not so impressive
A few years ago, in a moment of boredom my sister used google earth to look at my house, then sent me the screengrab. I was quite surprised that it even showed the pathetic awning thingy over the back door - at only 950mm x 750mm. I was especially impressed considering it had been 'edited' by a winter storm a couple of years beforehand.
P.S.
I like to imagine that some evil google machine is totally locked up trying to work out why a major commercial electrical contractor was investigating a domestic location over 80 miles away :)