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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago (1 children)

literally visible from space.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Google Earth photos are mostly taken from low-altitude planes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh that makes a lot more sense actually. Not sure why I never realized that.

[+] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they just buy the imaging from other companies, not fly their own planes. But it seems hard to confirm this. Google Earth refers to "the image provider", which implies Google didn't fly the planes themselves, but just bought aerial imagery which is already collected and used in other industries.

You can generally get a feel for if it's satellite or plane images. You generally aren't making out a cat on a deck for a satellite photo, it's more like a blurry house and that's all you can make out. Satellites are gonna be 100x further away when they take a photo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

If you check at the bottom of the screen, you normally see the sources of the map data and imagery

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Satellite imagery seems cheaper than you might think though. I've had SkyFi in my favourites for a while after they sponsored a YouTube video, and they seem to start at $8 per km^2^ for a new photo or $2.50 for a previously taken one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I just figured they were in on it with the government.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Shhhhhh

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

'Was'??? Why 'was'???? 😳

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think you know why

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes we all know why. They sent him to a farm and he'll happily live there forever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

This cat is not big, it is WONDERFUL at google maps level