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Their Street View product is also very good, however their coverage is mostly for ex Soviet Union countries

• holografix 4y ago
  Had no idea this existed. Fascinating
• Scoundreller 4y ago
  heh, I remember looking up some satellite maps of French prisons on Google maps. They were blurred!!!! https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Centre+P%C3%A9nitentiaire+de+Paris+la+Sant%C3%A9/@48.8337878,2.3380657,525m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47e671bfc19257f5:0x759ab178360433b0!8m2!3d48.8337878!4d2.3402597 https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Centre+P%C3%A9nitentiaire+d... A quick trip over to Yandex, and there they were in their full glory: https://yandex.com/maps/10502/paris/?l=sat&ll=2.340173%2C48.833775&mode=search&sll=2.338066%2C48.833788&text=48.833788%2C2.338066&z=18 https://yandex.com/maps/10502/paris/?l=sat&ll=2.340173%2C48....
  • asdff 4y ago
    It's funny when countries fuzz up their google maps images of military bases, or oil companies, or whatever. The US military clearly thinks doing that is a joke: you can zoom in on area 51 and look at parked aircraft.
    • astrange 4y ago
      The US just knows where all the satellites are well enough that they hide the good stuff inside when something's scheduled to fly over.
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  • coolandsmartrr 4y ago
    Probably because of legal compliance than technical reasons
  • account42 4y ago
    Good on Google for telling us what places to pay attention to ;)