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Google Maps Adds Drone Imagery 141

Posted by timothy from the hook-'em-horns-but-closer dept.
joshuadugie writes "Slashdot carried a story a while ago that Google had purchased drones for unknown purposes. Google Maps has now added new non-satellite imagery (at UT Austin, for example) when you zoom in close enough. Mystery solved!" I'd like to think that there really are (or were) drones over Austin, but would also like to see Google's explanation for the close-up images.
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  • Re:Can't Wait (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, 2010 @10:58PM (#33904152)

    You overestimate people. I suspect the main purpose will be to look for couples having sex in their backyard. Hmm... be back later.

  • Mystery solved? (Score:4, Funny)

    by kurokame ( 1764228 ) on Thursday October 14, 2010 @11:06PM (#33904206)
    Look, everyone knows that the Google index server has evolved sentience and is currently hunting for Sarah Connor. You might as well just admit that's what the drones were really for.

  • Re:Mystery solved? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Jason Levine ( 196982 ) on Friday October 15, 2010 @09:12AM (#33907036) Homepage

    It should really just Google for her.

    Which leads me to imagine a modern recreation of the Terminator movies. The T800 comes back in time, walks into a Starbucks, accesses their free WiFi (pushing aside a guy drinking a half-caf low-fat milk latte), accesses Sarah Connor's Twitter feed, sees her latest Foursquare check-in location and then goes there to find her. Somehow, it doesn't seem as compelling as the original, though.

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