Seriously - Those are very high quality photos, thought that was cold war super-spy territory only! Mind you, the public access is nice....I can see my house from here :)
2007-11-03 17:58:38 · 12 answers · asked by Linda 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I know what you did last summer!
2007-11-03 18:22:11 · answer #1 · answered by 2nd AD/ 4th ID 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satellite imagery is very common and by no means limited to google earth. Your question kind of hits the nail on the head. It was super-spy territory during the cold war, but that was 20 years ago and it's come a long way since then.
2007-11-03 18:03:14 · answer #2 · answered by Modest 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technology is amazing, but it can be creepy too. Just imagine the possibility of becoming a police state. Then every single movement of a person can be monitored and traced. How sure are we now that nobody is listening to our private phone conversations?. Or somebody sifting and snooping at whatever files saved on our computers?. All these could be happening without our knowledge.
2007-11-04 08:55:07 · answer #3 · answered by Botsakis G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pictures of my area are at least 5 years old. I can see my house, but the car in the driveway I have not had for 5 years. All the new contruction around my area is not shown on it. I tried looking for some things in Africa and they do not show the towns or cities I am looking for.
2007-11-04 04:19:52 · answer #4 · answered by Roland P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google, buys the pictures from commercial imagery satelites.
There are several in orbit.
But there are large areas of the world, that aren't covered at all.
Lancaster PA isn't covered, there are no close up images at all.
And alot of the areas covered, have very old pictures.
My house shows up as a forest on google,
Which makes the image atleast 7 years old.
2007-11-03 21:45:14 · answer #5 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Virtual earth is even better. They have a "bird's eye" view so you can zoom in to about 40 feet and check out different angles.
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/
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2007-11-03 18:07:13 · answer #6 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot access Military installations at will!
And not all areas are available in such high resolution.
2007-11-04 05:43:12 · answer #7 · answered by conranger1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just a nerd with a computer
2007-11-03 18:02:02 · answer #8 · answered by Brown Boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think
That would be invasion of privacy
2007-11-03 18:18:30 · answer #9 · answered by mw 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
=]
It kinda makes you feel like the tooth fairy is watching.
It's a scary thing.
...Kinda like mapquest.
2007-11-03 18:06:34 · answer #10 · answered by Jojo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋