Doing some research on CIA maps and came upon this article….just getting started – it’s a big rabbit hole – I think it’s worth a DIG

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/20/googles-earth-how-the-tech-giant-is-helping-the-state-spy-on-us

Ties together - Google, Keystone, DigiGlobe, GeoEye, NSA, Rob Painter, In-Q-Tel, Snow Crash (book), Surveillance Valley - The Secret Military History of the Internet (book), Harris Corp, Jigsaw (puzzle?)

In 2003, a San Francisco company called Keyhole Incorporated was on the ropes. With a name recalling the CIA’s secret 1960s “Keyhole” spy satellite programme, the company had been launched two years earlier as a spinoff from a videogame outfit. Its CEO, John Hanke, told journalists that the inspiration for his company came from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, a cult science-fiction novel in which the hero taps into a programme created by the “Central Intelligence Corporation” called Planet Earth, a virtual reality construct designed, as the book describes, to “keep track of every bit of spatial information that it owns – all the maps, weather data, architectural plans, and satellite surveillance stuff”.

The purchase of Keyhole was a milestone for Google, marking the moment the company stopped being a purely consumer-facing internet company and began integrating with the US government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash (similar to what is going on today)

https://spie.org/news/spie-professional-magazine-archive/2016-october/optics-of-google-earth?SSO=1

https://jigsaw.google.com/ (censorship/disinformation)