Just to make to make what I'm saying more clear: I'm certainly not disagreeing that the highest zoom levels in major cities are aerial photographs. The city-

Just to make to make what I'm saying more clear: I'm certainly not disagreeing that the highest zoom levels in major cities are aerial photographs. The city-block level imagery available globally is from satellite, though. For example, compare this (probably satellite, little building lean and ~1m resolution): http://goo.gl/maps/mJadH http://goo.gl/maps/mJadH To this (definitely aerial, lots of "lean" and ~10-20cm resolution): http://goo.gl/maps/WYnvE http://goo.gl/maps/WYnvE