In another life, I was a land surveyor and I did a lot of LiDAR work as well as heavy use of USGS data. Almost anybody except the most blinkered in that industr

In another life, I was a land surveyor and I did a lot of LiDAR work as well as heavy use of USGS data. Almost anybody except the most blinkered in that industry would have seen this coming, I think. It's just one more data point that convinces me that Google should be broken up or at least not allowed to silo previously public categories of data.