Google buys Keyhole Corporation.

Google has made another company purchase buying Keyhole which has digital mapping software. The software is able to take satellite digital images an give you a view of a small are with digital photos. Evidently, it can tile photos from a satellite so it looks like one continuous image. I don't know how small the image can detail, but if you're familiar with satellite imagery they can probably define objects of 6 feet or maybe less. It's going to probably be used to provide a mapquest type service where someone sees directions with a real picture.

What does it mean for the average person or privacy? It might mean that you have less privacy when someone can look at your street and see where everything is. I hope that they're not going to go all out on this online. I think criminals will use it and possibly terrorists if this is shown to give detail previously only available to the governmental authorities. Once again, Google has me a little spooked. I'm getting ahead of the game here. They haven't said yet why they bought it, but what other reason would you other than to give photographic detail of what's on the ground?

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