So it turns out that Trondheim Kommune’s short-sightedness is among the reasons we can’t see satellite imagery of Trondheim via Google maps (See article “Google Fog Over Downtown” ). The local map and survey office (Kart og oppmålingskontoret) has chosen to prioritize their revenue stream over making the satellite imagery available to its citizenry through channels other than their own, cumbersome, map application. It turns out that they sell map data and imagery—the same data which we as tax payers certainly pay them to administer and make available.