Yeah Google Maps is a great product. FYI, not all of their imagery is actually from satellite. In fact the imagery covering the Bandimere area is old, and was actually flown imagery(taken from a plane) plus it has that pesky watermark. Notice the north end of the track. That imagery I think is 2000 or 2001 maybe 2002.
Costs lots of money to fly an area for imagery so it isn’t flown that often unless there is someone willing to pay for like for a mapping project and satellite imagery isn’t cheap either (someone has to pay for the satellite). So most of those map services use what the can get a hold of cheaply. Google now owns Keyhole (now Google Earth) where they purchased imagery from what ever source they could find like Digital Globe, Space Imagery, US Air Photo etc…. and is the imagery they share in Google Maps.
As for IMI I have gave Angie a nice image last year she used on a web page (not sure where that page is now, it was for CSC I think) plus I posted a couple small versions one of the general area and one of the kart track only on this forum under a topic called “Karters interested in Driving ovals?” If you want a bigger image let me know, just send an email or pm me.
Haven’t looked for some good recent imagery CRE yet and have tried looking for GJMS track but have yet to find something and I have the same old stuff that Google Maps has for Bandi. Will keep looking, I work for USGS so sometimes I stumble onto things.
Bruce A. Boman
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