Dimensions
Posted in Education by Peter W. Schramm
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BBC maps site is both useful and amusing.
3:43 PM / September 6, 2010
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Note in this link: Digital Globe and GeoEye...these companies keep popping up if you are looking for them.
Also recipients of Government Largess, and potentially a play on the privitization of the of the CIA, DOD and other trends you have mentioned, since I wouldn't be suprised if some high level security clearances existed in these firms.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-08/geoeye-digitalglobe-get-7-billion-us-gov-implement-next-gen-imaging-technologies.