[Novalug] [OT] Google takes heat for using pre-Katrina imagery

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Michael Stone wrote:

MS >On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:30:49AM -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
MS >>I thought the untimate source of the google images was NASA.
MS >
MS >No. The google imagery with the best resolution comes from airplanes 
MS >flown by private companies who sell the pictures to places like google 
MS >or microsoft (among others).

That would account in part for why the pictures of my property are 7 years
old then.

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