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Someone once told me that Mars has better elevation data than Earth. Maybe it's the quality of the orbiters or maybe it's the fact that there is less atmospheric interference and you can use LiDAR vs radar? Can anyone confirm? bdon, if you're reading this we need a protomaps archive for the moon and Mars :)
I don't understand how Google could have this and yet they don't have high res images of the Earth's oceans.
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Street View is also available in Germany as far as I can tell.
Only in the initial cities in which they started doing it before the backlash got so large that they abandoned it. A few months later, when Microsoft or whoever did their take on it, nobody cared anymore because it wasn't about principles.
They should partner up with NASA and add "Street view".
If you want higher res, check out the recently released Murray Lab CTX global mosaic: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-interactive-mosaic-uses... https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/index.html
https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/MurrayLabCT...