They've replaced the photograph of London with a newer one. It was taken
just after dawn in midwinter, so there are shadows of naked trees stretched
across everything, making it nearly useless!

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, John Rowland wrote:

They've replaced the photograph of London with a newer one. It was taken
just after dawn in midwinter, so there are shadows of naked trees
stretched across everything, making it nearly useless!

That is in fact exceptionally bad. The shadows from buildings are pretty
bad too - streets are all but invisible.

tom

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see im down wid yo sci fi crew

They've replaced the photograph of London with a newer one. It was taken
just after dawn in midwinter, so there are shadows of naked trees stretched
across everything, making it nearly useless!

Horrible. And shots are at least 8 months old - the house I live in is
still unfinished in the photo (still better then previous shot from
early 2005!).

John Rowland wrote:
They've replaced the photograph of London with a newer one. It was taken
just after dawn in midwinter, so there are shadows of naked trees stretched
across everything, making it nearly useless!

It's quite interesting though. At Waterloo International you can see
the first two and a bit cars of a Eurostar apparently separated from
the rest of the train due to movement in between successive
photographs. At present the southern border of the winter photo zone
passes through my old stamping ground, West Norwood. It appears to
bisect Royal Circus, which is neat.

"John Rowland" wrote in message
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They've replaced the photograph of London with a newer one. It was taken
just after dawn in midwinter, so there are shadows of naked trees
stretched across everything, making it nearly useless!

It is pretty terrible I agree.

Must have been a Sunday morning, as my car was at my fiancées house rather
than at mine.

I see that somebody had pinched my reserved space back at my house whilst I
was gone!

Colin

John Rowland wrote:
They've replaced the photograph of London with a newer one. It was
taken just after dawn in midwinter, so there are shadows of naked
trees stretched across everything, making it nearly useless!

It can't be just after dawn, not everywhere anyway. Shadows in central
London (e.g. Nelson's Column) indicate that it's late morning, roughly
around 11:00. There's an event of some sort in Trafalgar Square. From
the works going on in Devonshire Road, Chiswick, I would say it was
around January or February this year. Colin says it must be a Sunday
morning. Between us on this NG, we ought to be able to pin it down to a
date.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

At bbs.keyhole.com there is a forum where photo updates are announced

http://tinyurl.com/eg5p3

On October 3rd, we updated Google Maps and Google Earth with the
following new imagery:

- Cross Plains, Texas
- the whole state of Minnesota, South Carolina, North Dakota, Missouri
(updated to 2005), Idaho, Maryland, and now full coverage for the
entire state of Texas
- Updates to Florida (most of the state covered now)
- 15 high-resolution cities in Germany
- update for London, 2006 data at 10cm
- South Georgia Island (courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey)
- Albany, OR; Lubbock, TX; Port Townsend, WA; Portage County, OH;
Trumball County, OH
- 32 Digital Globe high-resolution cities (updates and new coverage)

In addition there was a significant update to the regular Digital Globe
imagery all over the world.

Enjoy!

Also there is a thread started 3rd Oct headed, "why have you downgraded
the images of London?" with quite a few messages.

http://tinyurl.com/hsdod

Between us on this NG, we ought to be able to pin it down to a
date.

When was the work done to Ruislip Manor tube station? The hoardings on the
westbound platform are still up in the Google photos and the banking fresh
bare soil/earth - may help to date the photos

http://tinyurl.com/rydz4

"Thunderbug" typed



Between us on this NG, we ought to be able to pin it down to a
date.

When was the work done to Ruislip Manor tube station? The hoardings on the
westbound platform are still up in the Google photos and the banking fresh
bare soil/earth - may help to date the photos

http://tinyurl.com/rydz4


I still went to choir at the time, so it would be before summer 2005
(possibly winter 2004-5).

I see the photo of the patch around my home (HA8 5LW) is still the
ancient one that predates my next-door neighbours' extension in 2002 and
the BACS building is still standing. live.local has more recent images.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.