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		brk on Feb 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aerial photography ban proposed for all but govern... Does Google actually own the satellites taking the images, or are they licensing them (as was my understanding) from Federally-funded satellites?

run4yourlives on Feb 27, 2013 [–]

I think most of the images are actually private aerial photographs.

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