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Originally Posted by Amie  I see. But for some reason the photos work fine when the locations are within my country (USA). However, every time I try to visit another country, I have said problem.
I always have an Internet connection when using GE. Yeah, after it loads (I see the percentage at the bottom of my screen), the photos clear up - but ONLY within my country. Like I said, other countries remain blurry, regardless. |
Yes, it seems that the majority of the USA has much higher-resolution satellite photos of it than other parts of the world.
The satellite photos are usually taken according to some "importance" factor -- for example, I'm sure that high-resolution photos of Los Angeles were taken and available before high-resolution photos of Akron, Ohio, simply because Los Angeles (ack, I know I'm gonna get in trouble here) holds a higher general "importance" factor than Akron.
In that same respect, it would be a waste of time to focus on taking high-resolution satellite photos of the middle of the Nevada desert when that same energy and time could be spent making high-resolution photographs of Las Vegas -- a much more interesting, relevant, and frequented place in terms of maps. We don't need to see individual grains of sand so much as we need to see who got caught on film riding the Space Needle ride.
So, while in Los Angeles, I can zoom in so far that I can make out the color, model and make of a car on the street, I cannot do the same in Abu Dhabi, simply because high-resolution satellite photographs have not been taken there, yet.