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Thursday, August 18, 2005

I'm loving Google Earth. I was playing with it today and noticed that they'd added a high-detail map of Barcelona. In fact, it was good enough for me to virtually walk up to the fort on top of Montjuic and take this screenshot of the port below:

Compare it to this real photograph I took earlier this year:

The shapes are flattened, but it's obviously the same place. Incredible!

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Siobhan Curran Presumably Google took their picture just after an oil slick hit Barcelona?

Becky Google is using satellite phographs. And in space, seen from directly above, the sea looks very dark. :)

Siobhan Curran *pfft*

Excuses...

Becky Just 'cos it's not out for the Mac yet. ;-)

Siobhan Curran Um, um, um. Nope - witty comebcak eludes me

Jane Very cool Becky, Google Earth rocks!

Anonymous hhm not sure if that goog shot was taken via a sat becky ( thats a pretty shallow angle and the resolution would be appaling given the amount of polution across that distance) however the goog pic just doent look 'real' does it? computer enhanced or even total CGI? ive seen a few of the so called images from sats and having worked in 'proper' photography for 15 years im never that impressed...your photo looks much better! hanna xx

Becky Ah, I understand what you're saying, Hanna, and yes if that was just a plain satellite photograph it wouldn't be at such a steep angle. Perhaps I should have explained what Google Earth does.

It maps satellite photography onto a real-time 3-dimensional globe. So that you can zoom in an position yourself at any point on earth. It includes alitude data, so that mountains "jump out" of the image.

You can even change the angle of view, like I did with that picture. I positioned my view in Google Earth onto the top of Montjuic in Barcelona and changed the angle so it was looking towards the horizon in the direction of the port. Effectively you're looking at a flat satellite image that's been distorted and mapped to look 3D.

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