Comment Re:Resolution (Score 3, Informative) 118
Seems to me like the current pics have pixels thinner than 0.5 meters... I feel like I am missing something?
In many (most?) developed western areas the images are from planes, not satellites. There is a great deal of high-res aerial photography on the open market and Google has used much.
The development being discussed in the article will benefit outlying areas and places where having temporal density is useful.