SOCIAL: Bizarre Google Map Artifact

[Peter Bradshaw]

A bundle of 'em:

http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/04/13/planes-in-flight/

On a mild tangent, the new imagery in Europe is crazy.

A freeway blocked by a recent accident (check the tailbacks)
http://tinyurl.com/glnj3

the attached kmz's for google earth. It shows someone's back garden
where they've made their patio with pictures of disney characters in
it.

On 4/25/06, Paul Spinrad <pspinrad at panix.com> wrote:
> I think most satellite photos are straight down (they used to all be that
> way-- it gives a clearer image, less atmosphere in the way, larger and
> closer target area).
>
> My guess is that this image was scanned right-to-left overall, while the
> plane was traveling more or less left-to-right, going fast enough across so
> that some lines were lost and it squished the image of the plane.  If so,
> there should also be some Google Maps shots where planes look stretched out.
>
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randall Isaac" <randall at deadletter.com>
> To: <social at deeptrouble.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: SOCIAL: Bizarre Google Map Artifact
>
>
> That confirms what I've always suspected, that the satellites are taking
> pictures from different angles, not just straight down, and then there must
> be some software manipulation to make every picture look like it was taken
> from directly overhead.  I'm assuming that since the plane was probably at
> 35,000 feet the software didn't correctly adjust it's dimensions.  The
> question is why do they bother to adjust the picture at all?  Is is just the
> desire for consistency or viewing angle or something else?
>
> Randall
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: social-bounces at lists.deeptrouble.com
> [mailto:social-bounces at lists.deeptrouble.com] On Behalf Of Eric Arons
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:42 PM
> To: Social
> Subject: SOCIAL: Bizarre Google Map Artifact
>
>
> This is a Google satellite image of a park near my work in Menlo Park.  See
> anything odd?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/fsrpj
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