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Authored by: Tonex on Jan 24, '06 05:56:50AM

You ask "Do you think there are an infinte number of spy planes and satellites constantly criss-crossing the globe, to provide this information? Would you want there to be?! "

Well, yes unfortunately there are. Most of them belong to the American military and much of the data they collect is classified. The GPS system runs on this network. The American military make this data available to certain other countries but reserve the right to downgrade the quality if they need to, for example when invading Iraq.

For this reason Europe has started it's own satellite project, Galileo, details of which can be found at www.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/ galileo/sa/index_en.htm.

Whether all these things are a good idea or not is beyond the scope of this post, but rest assured Google Earth is just the tip of the iceberg as far as applications of this technology goes. Applied satellite data is going to have an enormous impact on all our lives over the next few years.

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