Curiouser and curiouser
I don’t know about you guys, but during my hurrication, GoogleMaps was fundamental to my mental well-being. Within a few days of the storm, I knew with relative certainty the fate of my house and my neighborhood. It was also important to my friends and relatives who lived out of town: I could send them a link and prove to them that things were okay–or at least, kinda okay. The service was useful, accurate, and free.
Well, yesterday, I was trying to send a soon-to-be-visitor a map of the Marigny, just so she could see where it’s situated in relation to the river, the Quarter, and so on. But when I clicked over to the satellite images on GoogleMaps, something seemed weird. There was a clearly defined grid of streets in the 9th Ward. There was traffic on Judge Perez Drive. There were no blue tarps. Anywhere. Seriously, check it.
So, what’s up with that? Is it just Googledrones wanting to use the crispest images available? ‘Cause I could tell from the site’s post-storm shots that my neighbor’s looming live oak hadn’t fallen on my house, and that would seem pretty damn crisp to me. Or is it sneaky revisionism by forces from the heartland–the kind of folks that want to look at a map of New Orleans and say, “Oh, well, it looks like everything’s been fixed down there. Guess they won’t be needing that $31 billion now….”
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Please post something about this Nagin Timeline. Folks need to see how badly he has executed as mayor over the years.
http://mitchformayor.com/timeline.php
thanks!
That sure is strange. Kinda creepy to look at. Like a picture from the 1950’s.
I’ve tried to notify google.com and get some answers and everyone else should send an email too. Here’s the webpage to send them questions: http://maps.google.com/support/bin/request.py
Google Maps’ satelite images are not live or current. They weren’t before, after, or during the storm.
Here’s from their help pages:
We understand your privacy concerns and can assure you that the satellite images on Google Maps are taken from a variety of commercial and public resources and are not real-time in nature.
You have to download the post katrina overlays on Google Earth.
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