google maps - GTA now in high res!!

[Tuscani01]

Very cool. I think i see my GF walking the dog..wait a minute who's that guy with her ...?

Oh, she was walking me too... sorry.

 

[EnviroTO]

I wonder how they are meshing the images together. Looks like a lot of work. The picture of the CN Tower and Apex, Matrix, Optima were taken from a point north of the buildings but Harbourfront and HVE were taken from a point passing south of the buildings. The result is a strange array of buildings which look like they are leaning towards each other but somehow they merged the images so they don't get chopped off. Based on the lean patterns these photos were definitely taken from an aircraft.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

enviro, you're right. it is an aerial shot...


look at the microsoft VE aerial layer. it is identical to google's new image. shadows and cars all the same.

http://www.flashearth.com/


the google layer in flash earth is the previous verson (the old one) which was a more recent image.

the ask.com layer will take you back to what looks like 1999.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

downtown looks different though on microsoft VE....

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=43.642515&lon=-79.387149&z=20&r=16&src=msa


there's no lean in the CN tower.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=43.667152&lon=-79.457175&z=20&r=6&src=msa


bad transition. goes from spring to summer. where's the other half of the train? LOL

reminds me of the episode of married with children where they're in england and one side of the town is in darkness and the other side light.

 

[Hipster Duck]

We're still missing the subway and railway stations that are present in every other world city on Google maps.

I wish that Windows Live Local had a birds eye view feature of Toronto.

 

[ShonTron]

Kitchener-Waterloo is now in High-Res (and appears relatively up-to-date), but Guelph, London, most of Ontario still in low res.

My old area of Brampton is now in high-res, but there wasn't any real update (new images, but around the same time). I think the big improvement is the loss of cloud cover - parts of Toronto were invisible before.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

North York and Scarborough have been updated but are still 2 years old...can't expect everything to be brand spanking new, but North York Centre is changing fast.

 

[unimaginative2]

Kitchener-Waterloo is now in High-Res (and appears relatively up-to-date)

At long last! I was getting a little fed up that the coast of Western Sahara was high-res, while K-W was not.

 

[ShonTron]

Ontario is starting to get interesting as to what is and what isn't higher res.

K-W is now the highest res, but Guelph is low res.

A large swath of Eastern Ontario is higher res - most of Kingston to past Gananoque is (past the bridge from the 401 to Interstate 81), Perth is higher res, Smiths Falls is not. Simcoe is high res now, but not London or St. Thomas. The former Hagersville AFB is high res, not Hagersville itself. A large portion of Lambton County is higher res, including Sarnia, but not Kent County (higher res starts just north of Wallaceburg). Owen Sound, Walkerton, Lucknow and Kincardine are higher res, but not Goderich or Hanover.

Parry Sound is high res, but little in Simcoe County.