Its a bird! Its a plane! Its Google!
Google has bought an aerial photography company complete with planes and high resolution cameras. Apparently they're ready to start fooling around with not buying all their data from third party vendors, which could have very cool results. I could see them canvasing urban areas to document events from above and streamlining the data processing step so that imagery is a little more current. (how many times have you looked up directions to a building that was still under construction in the Google recon data?) But it'll still be a while before anything is up and running, so don't start salivating quite yet. Although, if I were one of these competing companies I'd be a little worried about the inevitable Google shakeup that's going to happen in this field. Whatever they do, I bet it'll be cool and good for everyone.
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