by Wretchard at The Belmont Club
Why does Google Earth's resolution suddenly improve in certain areas of the Pakistani-Afghan border? Wired thinks it knows the answer. Google Earth gets its data from the same providers of cartographic information as the US DOD and those sectors happen to be precisely where the US governÂment has been hunting for bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to the magazine.
On the other hand, as many of Wretchard's commenters note, the resolution on Google Earth is a little hit-or-miss. (My house is in one of the hi-res areas; two blocks south, it goes all blurry.) On the other other hand, it does kinda make you go "Hmmmmmmmm." |