{"id":152,"date":"2008-06-06T00:31:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T05:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-06-06T00:31:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T05:31:01","slug":"google-earth-vs-reality-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/google-earth-vs-reality-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth vs. Reality, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I compared some real-life photos with the same scene in Google Earth<\/a>.\u00a0 Since I’m a bit of a computer\/mapping\/photography geek, I couldn’t resist doing a few more.\u00a0 That actually ended up being a pretty popular post, with thousands of pageviews, which just goes to show I’m not the only combination computer\/mapping\/photography geek out there.<\/p>\n

Here’s a view of San Francisco from Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.\u00a0 Follow this link to see larger versions in Flickr<\/a>.\u00a0 This one is even better than the two from last week – look how well the streets, buildings, and Golden Gate Bridge match with the photo.<\/p>\n

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Now I’ll go a little more international.\u00a0 Here’s a photo from the site of ancient Mycenae in Greece.\u00a0 This is above the famous Lion Gate looking out tat the hills surrounding the Argolid plain.\u00a0 See larger versions in Flickr<\/a>.\u00a0 The aerial photograph that Google Earth maps to the topography isn’t as detailed as the real life photo, but even the borders of the olive groves line up.<\/p>\n

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These next two are not as identical as the San Francisco cityscapes, but are still impressive because of how well they evoke the real life scenes without 3-d buildings.<\/p>\n

The first is from the Acropolis in Athens, looking out over the surrounding neighborhood.\u00a0 Larger versions in Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another shot from the Acropolis showing the new Acropolis Museum.\u00a0 Larger versions in Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If you feel like making some comparisons of your own, please let me know in the comments below – I’d love to see what other people could come up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I compared some real-life photos with the same scene in Google Earth.\u00a0 Since I’m a bit of a computer\/mapping\/photography geek, I couldn’t resist doing a few more.\u00a0 That actually ended up being a pretty popular post, with thousands of pageviews, which just goes to show I’m not the only combination computer\/mapping\/photography geek out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[256,77,80,253,96,753,255,266,267],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized","tag-comparison","tag-flickr","tag-google","tag-google-earth","tag-maps","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-simulation","tag-topography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}