[OSM-talk] Yahoo has very bad resolution images of Croatia, why?

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Sábado, 16 de Mayo de 2009, Valent Turkovic escribió:
> My reasoning was that the images are already available to yahoo but
> that they don't enable it for whole planet, and that only urban areas
> have enabled high-resolution images.

How do you come to the conclusion that Y! has already aerial imagery for the 
whole planet? Y! isn't a business based on cartography, you know. They have 
to purchase the images in bulk just as everyone else.

> How come that Hungary has such detailed high resolution images? Did
> Hungarian government pay loads of money to Yahoo?

No. Y! paid loads of money to GeoEye and I-Cubed.

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