Google Earth and Google.com’s Google Maps has recently added the town of Windham and its neighboring towns to the areas of sharper satellite and aerial imagery.

Much like MapQuest.com, Google Maps offers its online users location lookups and step-by-step driving instructions, complete with road-map images. Supplementary to this, Google added digital imagery in the recent past, and since then has been accruing more and more high-resolution areas of the globe to its database.

The images displayed by the program are acquired by Google through purchase and donation by a number of outside and in-house sources. As of yet, the company has little to no control over the areas of contribution, although it is looking to expand its digital imagery of the rest of the globe’s densely populated areas, and to completely photograph the entire United States.

The services of the Web site are free, although there are upgraded pay-versions that the company offers. These upgraded versions are demographically targeted toward developers and construction contractors that could benefit from high-resolution digital printouts (of up to 2,400 dots per inch) of proposed land areas.

The upgrades also include the ability to input and overlay three-dimensional objects such as projected building structures and landscapes, and tools essential to developers such as area-measurement tools.