Camera guys or paranoids , high resolution
 

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So much for privacy in the great outdoors...

Ed

That is AWESOME!

I wonder what all the military satellites photograph at? :D

Very impressive and odd at the same time. Are we watching him manipulate his desktop?

Here's the real story, it's not really just one picture:

YOSEMITE-17-GIGAPIXELS

Well.... They can read a license plate on a vehicle after an "application" manipulates the image. (Assuming the vehicle is in the correct orientation)

However that doesn't mean they can identify someone.
Rendering humans is entirely different to rendering Alpha Numeric symbols.

Very cool. I checked out a customer on google maps recently and noticed I could read their sign. The letters are maybe three feet tall. Pretty good from a satellite.

Almost all the of the high resolution stuff on Google maps and Goole Earth is actually aerial photography. It was shot from an airplane flying about 3 to 4 thousand feet. Google calls it a satellite view as a convenient term. Everyone know that will be a photo from above.