Google Earth Community: Welcome to Phil Verney's Discoveries!

Hello Phil:
I'm new to Google Earth and have a question that I posted but no one answered. Since you have your own forum here, I thought you might be expert on some of these questions. I wonder if you know... why is it that resolution differs across the globe? I noticed that when I looked up my house, I could see cars but not people. When I looked at a city in Holland, I could actually see a person riding a bicycle, it was that clear. Then when I went to look at the Brooks Range in Alaska, I could not get a clear image from lower than 50,000 ft elevation. A rural area in Nevada had poor resolution, as did a rural area in California. The whole country of Ireland seems to have poor resolution. Why the differences, and is there anyplace I can go to get a list of which areas have what type resolution? Also, when were all these images taken? Same time or different? When I looked up my house, it showed a tree in the backyard that was removed about 8 months ago, so the image is at least that old.

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