Yeah, never had any expectation that there would be any correlation between the street and satellite images.
An indication of the dates applicable to the particular images would however be nice & shouldn't be too hard. Ie is the satellite image I'm looking at 1 month, 6 month, 1 year, 5 year old? (Similar for the street view) Cheer Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 6/8/08 5:43 PM, Brett Clarke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > SInce google doesn't own the satellites and they obtain the sat and > airial images from a third party only when they are published at > various intervals, at this point, there should be no expectation that > there is any relationship between the dates of the sat/ airial images > and those street level images collected collected by google's own bugs. > > What might be interesting in 50 years time or so when google and NASA > etc have amassed sufficient image data, is for google to add a "time" > slider to google maps and streetview, that would provide a co- > ordinated (in time) view of the planet and streets so we could begin > (the nearest thing to) time travel!!! > > Cheers, BRett > > > On 06/08/2008, at 10:46 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> HeHe, >> >> I sort of noticed the opposite round here. >> >> The Street view photos are obviously much more recent than the >> satellite >> images. >> >> So you can have the surreal situation where the street view is >> showing a >> house while the photo pointer on the satellite view shows you are >> looking at >> open space, with no signs of a building to be seen. >> >> It would be interesting to know the photo dates, at any particular >> location, >> for both the satellite images and the street views!! >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
