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I suspect the reason they don't do this is because they want more pricing control.

For their solar API for example, they know how much time solar surveyors spend getting roof profiles, and they can therefore price their product to maximize revenue.

However if they just let you access all the data for any usecase, there will be plenty of people who pay Google a few bucks for data that might cost millions of dollars to obtain any other way.



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