Where Did That Naval Observatory Come From?

So amid the whirlwind of policies that have cascaded out of the Oval Office over the last week, I would like to draw attention to one of the little markers along the path back to sanity.

Without particular fanfare, the official residence of the Vice President, the Naval Observatory, which had been pixelated out of the satellite photos on Google Maps under Bush, has magically appeared. See the story in TPM.

It raises questions about how one goes about requesting something like this in the first place. It raises even bigger questions about why Google didn't tell whoever made the original request to take a hike. Either way, yet another indication that the country is once again in the hands of rational adults.