It's based on the availability of data from DigitalGlobe and whether the 
company has tasked the satellite to take pictures of that location. I'm sure if 
you paid to task the satellite to photograph Flint MI they'd be happy to task 
their satellite for a fee. And as a result through Google's exclusivity you 
would start seeing better resolution there.

It's also possible they did task the satellite but the imagery had too much 
cloud cover.

Conspiracies are fun though.

Jeremy

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Still all kidding aside, I would like to know how Google decides what imagery 
to obtain and what imagery to leave out. Was there some sort of 
return-on-investment analysis that decided it was more important to provide 
certain cities with imagery versus others?  Who knows, maybe they really do 
have something against people from Flint and/or Connecticut ;-)

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