{"id":6324,"date":"2014-07-06T08:05:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2014-07-05T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T01:08:45","slug":"skybox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6324","title":{"rendered":"Skybox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A joke was making the rounds several years ago: Some politician was using Google Maps and wanted to know why he couldn&#8217;t see his car parked in front of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, Google Maps uses satellite imagery that often months if not years out of date. That&#8217;s fine for getting around or becoming familiar with an area, but not useful if you want to see where your car is parked.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Skybox. Their goal is to have very fresh satellite images available, maybe three times a day. They can do it with only a small number of satellites. It&#8217;s fascinating stuff, and it will affect how you use Google Maps in just a few short years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB20001424052702303642704579624483306835774?mg=reno64-wsj&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB20001424052702303642704579624483306835774.html\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joke was making the rounds several years ago: Some politician was using Google Maps and wanted to know why he couldn&#8217;t see his car parked in front of the building. The truth is, Google Maps uses satellite imagery that often months if not years out of date. That&#8217;s fine for getting around or becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}