Why Our Ocean Maps Are Terrible

Why our ocean maps are terrible? Because we probably don’t have as much financial incentive to map them. The most important to map are the roads, so not only did Google take satellite images of the roads but they’ve also done street view on them with fancy 360 camera cars. We also want to map places that aren’t roads because we drive on roads to get to the places that aren’t roads. So we have satellite imagery of them, some with 3d information. Realistically, how many people open up map apps to look at the ocean? Close to none, which explains why we barely spent any money mapping them. Sure there’s probably a lot of utility in having higher resolution satellite imagery and depth information on oceans, but how much dollar value are we getting from that per square km?