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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ethan makes a valid point from my
perspective working in a risk adverse industry (petroleum).&nbsp; Google Earth
comes without an audit trail and &#8220;should certainly&#8221; is inadequate
assurance without that audit trail for anything more than rough reconnaissance.&nbsp;
(Different industries or applications do have different standards.)&nbsp; Furthermore,
imagery changes over time.&nbsp; What ties well in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
 w:st="on">Denmark</st1:place></st1:country-region> or in The Netherlands or in
Irwin&#8217;s studies or at the mailbox in front of my house today may not
tomorrow.&nbsp; How will we know?&nbsp; -Noel Zinn<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
proj-bounces@lists.maptools.org [mailto:proj-bounces@lists.maptools.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Thomas Knudsen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, November 30, 2008
9:08 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PROJ.4
 and general Projections Discussions</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Proj] Google Earth
Accuracy</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2008/11/30 Ethan Alpert &lt;<a href="mailto:ealpert@digitalglobe.com">ealpert@digitalglobe.com</a>&gt;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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How come no ones questioning the accuracy of the sensors that collected<br>
the imagery in Google Maps? I happen to know that satellite imagery is<br>
not very accurate unless you have decent ground control and a DEM. Even<br>
then it's not that great. It seems pointless to try to determine<br>
accuracy in Google Maps unless you understand where the imagery came<br>
from and how it was produced.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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At least where I live (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:City>,
 <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region></st1:place>), the
high resolution<br>
layers of Google Maps come from very high precision<br>
photogrametrically derived orthophotos, which should certainly<br>
have an accuracy way better than the &quot;few meters with occational<br>
ten meter blunders&quot; quoted earlier in this thread. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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