I do not think googld got 'clearance' from each and every
country. Let's look, for example, at Iraq. If there is any place on
earth now that ought not to be included in google earth Iraq is it.
Yet the images of baghdad are actually quite high res.
I know why those images are high res. It is because google earth
uses much of the technology used in Keyhole. Keyhole was a coy that
was used a lot by news coys to report events in Iraq, esp during
the early stages of the war. There are high res images of Iraq
because it makes commercial sense to take those pictures. Now, if
we look at google earth as a whole, we see that most of the ares
with high res images are those Big. recognisable cities and places.
This is, i guess because it makes more commercial sense for Keyhole
to take those pictures since it is likely those are the pictures
people actually want to use.
In Short:
- Google Earth uses much of the Images used by Keyhole
- Keyhole is a comemrcial coy, and hence only took pictures that
made commercial sense to take.
