[driftdiver]

“It’s the other way around Google purchases its satellite maps from the government.”

Its actually through a contractor and not direct. The government does not allow the sale of the same pictures they use for national defense. The ones that you can buy are of a lower resolution among other factors. But again, never mind someone whose actually been there.

According to your logic we should all be thankful we aren’t arrested when driving or stopping. After all we are blocking someone from going someplace.

[wideawake]

Its actually through a contractor and not direct.

Yes, there is a middleman.

The ones that you can buy are of a lower resolution among other factors.

Sure. But the existing resolution is good enough to identify individual automobiles, and even individual tiles on the McD facade.

According to your logic we should all be thankful we aren’t arrested when driving or stopping.

Not at all.

If we deliberately and illegally block other citizens into an enclosed area and prevent them from moving unless they abandon their vehicles, we should be thankful we're not arrested.