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"Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week

Posted September 03, 2008 8:40 AM

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Well, almost. Google signed an exclusivity deal with GeoEye regarding GeoEye-1, the most advanced high-resolution, civil, remote-sensing satellite to date. This must be annoying for other high-resolution, remote-sensing data users since Google already has an exclusivity deal in place with DigitalGlobe, the other major civil satellite imagery provider. From the CNet article: 'Under the deal, Google is the exclusive online mapping site that may use the imagery... in its Google Maps and Google Earth product. And as a little icing on the cake, Google's logo is on the side of the rocket set to launch the 4,300-pound satellite in six days from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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09/03/2008 5:46 PM

At what point does Google just lay claim to the Earth? I guess they've earned it though.

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09/04/2008 10:28 AM

If dick the chaiy can get his home removed from the Google photo's I might have thought any of us could opt out. I don't think that a commercial usage of my home & possibly myself are legal w/o my explicit permission.

I can't take a photograph of someone, especially a stranger, in their back yard & sell it for commercial use. Why the heck can they?????????????????

Do the words 'class action' have any meaning? I think they should.
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09/05/2008 2:06 PM

they also do not have any respect for intellectual property rights. they do not respect copyrighted material published on the web. they treat it as public property and reproduce for anyone who wants to look at it. then they totaly ignore you when you complain to them about their infringement. i just wish i knew how to remove or replace google search engines from toolbars and front pages.
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