Did the advent of mapping satellites have any tremendous impacts on the depiction of geography?

Not geography related, but check this out: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43164447/ns/technology_and_science-science/

They’re still discovering omissions now

I suppose though that we probably saw everything big that we missed when we started flying. So I wouldn’t have thought that satellites made that much difference

Satellites prob. made depictions more accurate. Satellites were used in studies of glaciers:
http://www.glaciers.er.usgs.gov/gl_slide/

I was in my twenties when the big blue marble photograph was first published. It was the most incredible experience: to see, for myself, that all those scientists that said the earth was round: they were right!—-by the bye, it is not accidental that the Flat Earth Society is still in business.—