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Jul. 17th, 2005

  • 10:54 AM
candle
I just downloaded Google Earth, which looks like it will be a lot of fun, but, being the geek I am, of course the first thing I did was look at my home, my school, and my work, and... none of them look right. In the satellite photo there's a highway next to my house that has since been moved into a tunnel. The building where I go to school isn't there. Neither is the building where I work. So it's all still very cool (and it makes me want to try to figure out exactly when the pictures were taken -- definitely before Fall of 2003, but beyond that I'm not sure without actually starting to look things up), but the differences between the landscape of two years ago and the landscape now are so startling that it kind of ruins the real-time zoom-in effect for me.

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[info]arbie wrote:
Jul. 17th, 2005 04:58 pm (UTC)
yeah, the whole business of mapping the earth from a satellite(s) in polar orbit is such that there is an inevitable time delay. And the fact is, the people with the equipment sell the pictures, and current shots are the highest price. Having scoped around my own area I notice that some outlying areas won't zoom in to max., obviously it makes sense to get the best shots of that which you think/know someone might have a greater interest in.
[info]arbie wrote:
Jul. 17th, 2005 05:02 pm (UTC)
...and now that I have looked *blush* I see that this is a new thing from Google. Related to Google maps which is what I was talking about, but different.
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