Help solve a mystery, satellite view parallel with earth surface through trees??

[Digjam]

My God, what a massive undertaking! I can't imagine the problems they face doing that. They have to stop when it rains, during road construction, detours, backed up traffic. The side streets are what get me, Birmingham has millions! What about dangerous neighborhoods? There are parts of Birmingham and Los Angles I would not drive through in an M1 tank. Maping every street and every inch of pavement, that boggles the mind. I still can't believe they came to this little nothing town I live in that is so far from Birmingham. Also, there is a traffic update function and at ground level. I used it to look at a wreck on the interstate a few miles from here. How the heck are they doing that?
What really freaked me out was when I looked at my house I could see the three white plastic garbage cans that I washed out and turned upside down to dry in the car port. That was only one week before I saw my house on Goolge.
Just think, there is going to be a picture record for future generations of virtually every residence and bussiness in the world at this time. My gosh, how much money does Google have? I never have figured out how they made any money in the first place. Do you know any business or person that has ever given them any money? I don't.
Butch

Google makes their money from advertising, and yes
there are big bucks in web advertising.
At minimum $10 per 1000 views, and probably $25/1000 or more.
In 2006 ( don't qoute me on this ) yahoo made $850 million
in ad revenue.
As far as street view goes, they don't always get it right.
They missed my address by about 500 feet. ;)and the
street view data is about a year old here.
And the sat view is at least 10 years old (at least here).
I too am in the b'ham area, maybe 15 minutes from you .