[AT] Satellite Images WAS Re: Re Driving to Unionville Missouri

[John Slavin]

I tried a case a few days ago (I'm an attorney by trade), and it became important to me to have some satellite images.  I was struck by several things:

1)  I didn't realize the difference between companies.  In this case, Bing's satellite image was much clearer than Google for the particular site I was concerned with.  I suspect they all use the same satellites, but I don't think they necessarily get the images at the same time.

2)  I never could figure out a way to get historical images online.  I actually wrote Google and the response I got was that when the images are updated, they no longer have access to the older images.  That would seem to me to be an easy way to monetize the images, if some company makes it easy, for fairly small fee, to get historical images.

3)  Wow have the images improved.  I found one site that had older images, but they are of much poorer quality.

John Slavin