The face on Earth!

[eclectic_boy]

Who needs the Face On Mars? It's only visible at low resolution. This one's right here, and quite clear no matter how close you zoom:



Site for a SWIL vacation? We could work on making an earring for it...
Source (link to google maps).

Comments

[sonatanator.livejournal.com]

Right, well Picnic at Hanging Rock offers lots of evidence of faces on this planet's terrain.

[rose_garden.livejournal.com]

I wonder why they have good resolution in the middle of nowhere, Alberta.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Playing around with google maps, I once wondered the same thing about North Korea (especially as compared with South Korea).

[rose_garden.livejournal.com]

Presumably the US military wanted to take a good look at North Korea.
Similarly, some areas of Afghanistan have rather good resolution.

But Alberta? What's there?

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Sure, but I would have thought the high resolution pictures would be classified.

There are some countries where most of the country has high enough resolution that you can see individual people. What I think is funny is that Alberta seems to go to higher resolution than Saskatchewan, and it's just that narrow strip of Alberta.

[eclectic-boy.livejournal.com]

It's possible the quality isn't a reflection of any particular reason to resolve Alberta, but happenstance. For instance, Google may have gotten its hands on a set of very high-res images that some satellite-imaging company offers as a free sample -- of a section of Canada that nobody's likely to have any actual interest in.

[gerbilicious85.livejournal.com]

Sometimes they're using flyover data from some individual who decided to do aircraft photography and share it.

[gerbilicious85.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, some parts of Australia, for example. I can't remember what town I was looking at yesterday, but I could see people getting out of their cars, hanging out on beaches, standing in their front yards, etc. I could even tell somewhat tell what they were (or weren't!) wearing1

[ccommack]

Oil.

[metasilk.livejournal.com]

Now I wish I'd known of that when I lived in Montana.

... Could someone have tweaked google's images? The terrain shading looks OK, but it's not as highlighted as might be...