Google Earth

[Paul]

Yeah...

My house looks like an RV! ROFL!

[bambigoddess]

Really? It's not really the quality we're talking about. It's more of the fact that newly build houses and such aren't on there.

[Paul]

Oh. lol

Well, I'll look for the new houses in my town and see if they're there.

[bambigoddess]

Okedoke.

[Paul]

Whoa....

We have this HUGE field in our town, and it's filled with houses just built, and an Ace hardware store, but all I see is the field and an old house where the hardware store is...wow. They need to UPDATE!

[bambigoddess]

My point exactly.

[matt]

If you think about just how many photos the satellite would need to take to cover the entire world (or most of it), I think they are doing quite a good job of only just being a few years old! The world is quite a big place!
Another thing worth remembering is that they're letting us use it for free ... I love google {wub}

[Paul]

That is a good point...

I wonder how long it takes to take pix of the whole world!

Wait, it's satellite, right? So how do they take pix of the world?

[bambigoddess]

Google. Is. Amazing. End of story.

[matt]

I assume that there is a humongous camera on the satellite pointing down at us, and as it orbits it just takes loads of pictures which then streams them down to Google/NASA/whomever.

It's all very clever though and I think, very interesting!