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Old 11th Mar 2014, 11:47
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Originally Posted by Mixture
Oh dear....

You evidently do not realise that unless you are paying a commercial satellite operator $$$ for a bespoke tasking, ALL satellite imagery you see on the public internet, and especially all imagery you see for free is taken from historical archives .... if you are lucky it might be a few months old, but most imagery is a couple of years old at least.
Oh dear.... you evidently don't realise DigitalGlobe, which owns Tomnod, retasked two of its 5 satellites to photograph the area on Sunday.


Edit: But Tomnod's been wilting under the load for a while now, but did serve something like 22000 images while it was up.

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