Comment Look at other major universities (Score 1) 141
It is common for a university to pay for aerial imagages of their campus. (Aerial survey or properties.) They use this for internal mapping functions and other useful functions. Once they have it, they can share it with other interested parties, but usually it includes some reciprocal benefit.
If it was a game day, could you read the scoreboard?
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