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?"

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Re:Different resolutions/scans

[sweetaction]

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.

See that hotdog stand?

[Sir Pallas]

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.