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For sure not all buildings. My first query was "Costa del Este, Juan Díaz, Distrito de Panamá, Panamá Province, Panama" and no coverage. This region is packed with high rises.


Yup, check my home neighborhood and it is good coverage, but checked a rural area I know has houses around a lake (not just tiny fishing shacks, full-sized 200+m^2 houses) with addresses and electrical and telecom/internet service, but there there are no buildings shown. Plus, even though there is a lot of tree coverage, many of the houses are clearly visible in Google Satellite View, so it is unclear why they wouldn't have been picked up.

Cool stuff, but they still have work to do.


The reason, I would guess, is that it takes at least a couple satellite passes to be able to get the 3D data, and then a processing step to actually obtain it, and they've not done that for sparsely populated areas.


Where?


Perhaps identity should be a form of graph including accounts you had over period of time instead of single input.


It looks like Aerial View API is working only in US. With any address outside US I'm getting "Address not supported".


> It's currently available for US postal addresses, with more countries to come in the future.

At the bottom of the page below "Get started with Aerial View"

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/create-...


We had the same issue and ended up using remote docker.

Pros: - Setup is very simple. - It can run dozens of containers without overloading local machine. - Its stable. - SSL is working.

Cons: - I got issues with web sockets support. - Some times I get file conflicts.

I actually got ready solution for running remote docker with Mac but It need a bit of work. If someone would like to support project some front-end work, and a bit of docker/nginx work, please get in touch.


For those not familiar with benefits, it's mainly about scaling from zero to heavy traffic fast. If for example, you are running CRM behind call center with crazy traffic during TV ads, and no traffic on weekend your infrastructure can scale from 0 to multiple instances instantly.


I had great experience with www.apify.com.


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