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Trondheim Norway, university and Google Norway headquarters absent from satellite imagery

A fan of google maps and APIs, I have been waiting patiently for about a year and a half for satellite images of downtown Trondheim Norway to become available (Trondheim is the 3rd largest city in Norway). Outlying areas of the city have good maps, but the downtown and university areas are lacking. There seems to be some cooperation between Google Norway and Oslo, but nothing is happening in Trondheim, headquarters to Google Norway.

Map help says "information is added as it becomes available from our data providers". In Norwegian it states that: the data is delivered by NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. Satellte images are from DigitalGlobe and MDA Federal. I am certain the imagery exists, and is available. Norkart and Trondheim Kommune have it.

Those areas of the city most interesting to visitors and tourists don't have the same detail of satellite imagery as the outying areas. This is both inconvenient and a detriment to the business community downtown. Most hotels can't be seen. Neither can the cathedral. The main campus of NTNU (Gløshaugen) with thousands of students and visitors is absent. A newspaper article was written months ago, and I waited patiently for a change. But no. (1) So how do we influence the imagery providers or Google Norway? (2) Is it just a question of Google Norway applying to Norkart for the data? (3) Is Norkart AS unwilling to share ?

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