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> I might be one of those long tail customers for SkyFi, my Dad's birthday is coming up and I think he'd love a print of a satellite photo of his cottage on the
by CPLX 4y ago
> I might be one of those long tail customers for SkyFi, my Dad's birthday is coming up and I think he'd love a print of a satellite photo of his cottage on the lake up north ...it needs to be better than Google Maps
It's not, it's drastically worse than Google Maps, not even comparable.
That was my use case as well, I bought images (at the highest offered resolution) of my house upstate and the place I got married, thinking they'd be nice little framed items, and they're completely unusable.
Google maps is probably 10-50x sharper. It's a confusing product. I guess there's a use case of tracking a something like how many warehouses your competitor has built, or avalanches, or forest fires, or all sorts of time sensitive things, but I feel like they could do a way better job of actually explaining what they are actually selling.
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- int_19h 4y agoGoogle Maps uses aerial photos past a certain level of magnification, if it is available in a given area, even if it's still labelled as "satellite". If you compare areas where there are no such photos - e.g. large natural parks - the hi-res samples on their website don't look any worse to me than Google.
- kraseng 4y agoAbsolutely! Google uses aerial for popular locations (large cities). We will get into aerial in the next few months. (I am affiliated with SkyFi - CTO)