This is something equivalent to what geo-mapping companies have been doing around large industrial areas using low-flying aeroplanes taking high-res photography for analysis.<p>It's basically "adding satellite" to geo-mapping technology to "address real-time demand and analysis".<p>It's all good if they keep this shit near the mining/farming/ports, etc.<p>However, this being Google (Big Brother), you can expect that they'd try using this for "traffic analysis" (cause Waze is not enough) and then slowly encroach into your neighbourhood, so that when they finally launch their blimps, you can look at the sky and you will see the ads that your browser blocked.<p>Granted though, if Google isn't/wasn't going to do this, somebody else probably will (or already is).