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Article: Sky-High Map Guys; Google Earth brought satellite photography to the masses. As competitors try to catch up, the old business of aerial mapping is taking off in the Internet age.(Product/service evaluation)
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- Newsweek
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- October 16, 2006
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Byline: Brad Stone
If you were in Los Angeles recently and noticed a twin-engine Cessna Turbo 310 crisscrossing the sky in meticulously parallel lines, several times a day for more than a week, you were probably watching one of Ken Potter's airplanes. With his wife, Mary, Potter runs the Philadelphia-based Keystone Aerial Surveys, which snaps overhead photos of cities and rural terrain for local governments and engineering firms. But lately, Keystone's client list has started to look a bit different. The flights over L.A., for example, were conducted for a major Internet firm like Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft (Potter declines to specify), which are all spending ...