a macro perspective
last month google quietly made global satellite images available on its maps website- it blows away the images available online last year.
from a view of the world, one can zoom in as far as the satellite images will take you, to almost anywhere. the resolution in urban and popular sites is much greater than in rural areas but most of the world is very well covered- amazing!
this view of shanghai clearly shows the huang pu river as it winds its way through the city. the pudong airport can be seen as a thick white line near the coast.
the apartment where i lived in bangkok, nantiruj tower, is shown in the center of this image. there's a pool on the sixth floor which you can see half-covered in shadow. sukhumvit sois 6, 8, 10, and 12 are visible.
the road from chiang mai to doi suthep is a great one for aspiring rally drivers and making passengers car sick. you can clearly see its twists and turns in this image.
this is an incredible view of siem riep, clearly showing angkor wat, angkor tom, and the sras srang reservoir.
there are egyptian pyramids, remote amazon outposts, and strange objects in the libyan desert (what is that thing???).
what can you find?
posted by jeremy @ 7:15 PM
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The maps of Singapore are pretty bad. Cloud covered and don't zoom in far enough to see anything. The New York City map is good but the addresses are off; to pinpoint my old place one actually has to put in an address a few doors down. And the quality is quite different a few blocks up... basically at the Harlem border. I'm not one for conspiricy theories and this would be a weird one to push anyway - I would expect better quality over Clinton's offices from Bush & company, not worse!
How could you not put up this though (sadly can't use img src in comments)?
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&ll=33.622048,-112.182877&spn=0.006115,0.006809&t=k&hl=en
For shame! :)
i did check out t-bird. too bad the resolution isn't a bit higher for glendale.
if you zoom out, head down bell road past the spiral housing developments of sun city, you'll reach this odd thing: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.631210,-112.370954&spn=0.017123,0.026337&t=k&hl=en
whatever it is, it hasn't been used for a long time. an old airfield perhaps?
I haven't the slightest clue what that thing in the desert is; nor do I know what this nearby feature is.
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