Since the beginning of the year 2007, SPOT5 satellite imagery is available inside GoogleEarth. From January 22th, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Luxembourg benefits from 2,50 meters resolution over all their countries including islands such as Corsica and Baleares.
The press release available from Spot Image Web Site
Before that it was only some places that would get Digital Globe or aerial imagery at a higher resolution. The rest of the country was covered with LandSat imagery at 15 m. resolution. That means that where was 1 LandSat pixel, we now have 36 SPOT5 pixels.
The city of Reims in LandSat imagery
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