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Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World
draevil writes "Google has hugely expanded the areas of the world that it covers with satellite imagery. Egypt, Iraq, mainland Europe and the UK have all now got satellite coverage to a lesser or greater degree. Slashdotters can now go see sights like Buckingham Palace or the Arc de Triomphe from the comfort of their own swivelchairs. Iraq in particular seems to have a large number of high-zoom areas. I just looked up the Baghdad Parade Grounds where Saddam used to take the salute and other towns like Fallujah are also there. Finding landmarks without the map content is a little harder, so what can the Slashdot crowd find?"
Nope.. this is satellite imagery.. not just google maps showing more than north america in an ocean.
The earlier story covered satellite imagery too. This is just more butt-buddiness between Google and the /. editors.
Not without a lot of time and effort. Different weather, land color tones and cameras all play into it. Imagine working with massive 100gig images in photoshop. Not going to work. Companies out there will spend time doing it, but you pay for it. A lot of imagary is free from the government. But doing something with it is where the effort comes in.
Show me the way to the vomitoreum...
Actually, that's the smog.
Once upon a time, there was a company called Keyhole that paid DigitalGlobe lots of money to take lots and lots and lots of high res photos of the earth. The terms of DG seems to assign you copyright for a particular shot if you pay enough for it. Google then bought Keyhole.
However, not all of Google maps satellite is DG, some of it is NASA. They're usually pretty good about not labelling this as copyright Google, but they do get it wrong some of the time.
So no, google don't have spy satellites (yet..) but they do hold the copyright legitimately for most of the areas they claim to.
Interesting attitudes for a highschool teacher. Do you also call your Japanese students, Japs, your Mexican students, Wetbacks, your Asian students Chinks, and your gay students Fags?
If you'll kindly give me your actual name and the name and address of your school I will be happy to notify your employer of your behavior. I'm sure that they will be quite willing to take measures correcting this deficiency in your character. I understand that such steps towards self-improvement are often very difficult if not impossible to correct on one's own or at one's own initiative.
Best Wishes,
Madcapjack
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I've heard (from a Russian professor) that there is a hotdog stand in the center of the Pentagon and that during the Cold War, the Russians had it targeted because they thought it was the entrance to where the Yankees held all the secret meetings, far underground.