Google has updated the quality of its imagery in both Google Earth and Google Maps' satellite view with new imaging technology from the Landsat 8 satellite.

Google Maps imagery taken at 34°03'17.8" N 118°13'32.2" W showing the words “HELP” and “TRAFICO” are real. But police say there’s no evidence of human trafficking.

In 2005, Google’s exec team (Larry, Sergey, etc) had a weekly product review meeting. We had launched Google Maps in February, and by summer, we’d integrated satellite imagery from our Keyhole ...

Ball Aerospace is the maker of Maps- and Earth-related imagery satellites and it’s now started working on the Worldview-3 satellite for commercial satellite operator DigitalGlobe, BBC News reports.

* This post originally stated that Google added 700 trillion pixels of data to its satellite map layer. In fact, it analyzed 700 trillion pixels of data to create a 1.5-trillion-pixel final product.

Strangely enough, Google Maps does not have very good satellite imagery of the tallest building in the world. On Bing though, colors are vivid, details are sharp and the buildings do not look slanted.

Google Maps imagery taken at 34°03'17.8" N 118°13'32.2" W showing the words “HELP” and “TRAFICO” are real. But police say there’s no evidence of human trafficking.

Google Maps imagery taken at 34°03'17.8" N 118°13'32.2" W showing the words “HELP” and “TRAFICO” are real. But police say there’s no evidence of human trafficking.

Google Maps imagery taken at 34°03'17.8" N 118°13'32.2" W showing the words “HELP” and “TRAFICO” are real. But police say there’s no evidence of human trafficking.

Google Maps imagery taken at 34°03'17.8" N 118°13'32.2" W showing the words “HELP” and “TRAFICO” are real. But police say there’s no evidence of human trafficking.