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Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca  Yes, it seems that the majority of the USA has much higher-resolution satellite photos of it than other parts of the world. |
Thank you! I'm glad you checked that out. I was beginning to think it was just on my end.
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Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca 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. |
No doubt.
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Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca 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. |
And those people who snap photos for GE don't think that the world-famous sites and streets in Nepal and Thailand are photo-worthy?
