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Google Earth has upped its resolution - elte - Jun 28, 2016
http://www.gizmag.com/google-earth-facelift/44057/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=32e9b31629-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-32e9b31629-91806145
Quote: With its mapping and imaging tools, Google has offered a highly useful window into many corners of the globe, and now it is bringing our humble little home into even sharper focus. The company has just introduced an updated version of Google Earth that taps sharp new imagery from Landsat 8 satellite to give the planet's surface an impressive makeover.
RE: Google Earth has upped its resolution - C C - Jun 29, 2016
Their current resolution is probably scary enough for Cousin Zeke and his backyard horseweed patch behind the trailer home on rural road E 670b.
RE: Google Earth has upped its resolution - elte - Jun 29, 2016
It's an excuse for me to play a bit with Google Earth again.
RE: Google Earth has upped its resolution - Ben the Donkey - Jun 30, 2016
Not for me.
Enough is enough. This is a private company ostensibly engaged in fun, or interest, but is now becoming a little bit frightening.