Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by CPLX on Saturday January 21, 2023 @04:03PM (#34470502)

> 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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Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by int_19h on Saturday January 21, 2023 @05:22PM (#34471271)

Google 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.

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Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by kraseng on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:29AM (#34474630)

Absolutely! Google uses aerial for popular locations (large cities).

We will get into aerial in the next few months.

(I am affiliated with SkyFi - CTO)

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