It used to be that google maps satellite images had pretty good resolution, at least over cities. I haven't checked in some time, but today I noticed that the resolution is barely equivalent to Donkey Kong when it first came out. When did it get so bad?
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Jump to PostGoogle probably switched to a lower resolution provider.
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Whether that's forced because of unavailability of other data (maybe a supplier went out of business, or isn't allowed any longer to sell them the data) or to save money (lower resolution images are cheaper than higher resolution ones) I don't know.
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