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Dave Ingram
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USGS apparently wants to remap the country:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/alaskas-outdated-maps-make-flying-a-peril-but-a-high-tech-fix-is-slowly-gaining-ground/2014/10/14/bc2e601e-4fd4-11e4-8c24-487e92bc997b_story.html


 
Posted : October 15, 2014 1:31 pm
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I'm already seeing higher resolution data being integrated into Google's software.

You can see the difference in detail between the left and right side of this screen shot.

I would assume this was gathered using Lidar, but I'm not sure.


 
Posted : October 15, 2014 2:44 pm