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

[charlie hill]

John there are some commercial sites that government agencies and businesses 
use.  The only one that comes to mind is TerraServer.  I can't afford to use 
them so I don't know the quality of the images.



-----Original Message----- 
From: John Slavin
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:21 PM
To: AT at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: [AT] Satellite Images WAS Re: Re Driving to Unionville Missouri

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
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