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Google has added two more levels of zoom to most of their satellite maps. Check out the insane detail in shots like the one of the Manhattan Bridge above! You can see little cars! Also note the very cool reflection of the bridge in the water! Still not quite as cool as the Microsoft Live Local map, but good for frittering away an hour or two today trying to spot the roof of your building. [Related: here's a fun mashup showing the highest point in each of the fifty states.]
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Wow! Look at the reflection of the bridge in the water. That's something we never could have seen otherwise.
they may've added two levels of detail, but a lot of the maps are still years old. if you want to check out aerials of any of the newer buildings in say, lower manhattan (sculpture for living, avalon christie, one kenamre square, etc.),you are still plum out of luck. anybody know how often google plans to actually update its sat imagery and not just magnify it?
At least two different satellite passes are overlain over parts of the city. Look at the Time -Warner Center or the East River near the Queensboro Bridge to see buildings jutting at weird angles and "ghost" barges.
I like Map Quest--it's a good one, too.
yeah i noticed these new photos are not any newer, i scoped out my house in ft greene, and when scrolling past the williamsburg bank building, noticed that Target is still a big whole in the ground.
same set with these new ones, just clearer.
Yo Parnell..
Double true!!!
Yo Parnell..
Double true!!!
The bridge is casting two reflections, a more discrete one off the north side as well as south. The Brooklyn Bridge has only one reflection.
An all around fascinating image. Thanks Jake.
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10 hanover square, NY, NY
Zoom in then look at the building just to the below right of that marked 77 on the roof... What is up with that plane on the roof?? Explain that please.
From New York Architecture Images:
"The biplane on the roof sculpture was designed by some guy named Rudolph de Harak and executed by the sculptor William Tarr in 1969 (thanks Jack Ryan).
Apparently it's a full-size model of a WW1 Sopwith Camel, complete with runway. It was put there to amuse inhabitants of surrounding scyscrapers, notably the WTC."
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM028-77WATERSTREET.htm
Awesome, thanks!
Google maps do use some aerial photos in addition to satellite images. My guess is the more detailed photos are aerial photos.
I don't believe it's a reflection. Look closely. The reflection would be of the underside of the bridge. It's clearly a 'view' of the top of the bridge. Further you can make out cars in the reflection. The cars would not be visible from that angle in the water. There is either some post production problem here or some anomaly effect from the camera system.