perspective on Google Maps

[RatLabGuy]

Look closely at a satalite map of the tall buildings just south and east of here
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...4121447105306994&ei=KLhcSqHHLYzoM-WJkcQB&cd=1

Notice anything weird about the orientation of the buildings, and their shadows?

Enteremely confusing.
Come on google, you can do better!

 

[chuckwhut]

any chance there's some crazy hillage going on there?

 

[RatLabGuy]

any chance there's some crazy hillage going on there?

Maybe I'm wrong - but I'm pretty sure that even on hills, all buildings are made to point the same direction - straight up.

 

[chuckwhut]

maybe they hills came after the buildings were built dave dammit

 

[kampgnar]

Appears to be oblique imagery mixed in with "birds eye" imagery.
Oblique imagery is meant to be scalable (z axis) for use by local emergency services...and crafty terrorists.

 

[Reid]

maybe they are those flexible earthquake resistant buildings.

 

[strange1]

Those crazy Canadians...

 

[sloop]

the satellite map is built from many different satellite photos taken from slightly different positions. its not real-time

 

[RatLabGuy]

the satellite map is built from many different satellite photos taken from slightly different positions. its not real-time

But wouldn't you think that things literally within a few blocks of each other would come from the same satalite/fly-by shot?

That's what gets me, within < 1 square mile you can clearly see about 4-5 different perspective angles.

And - even with the given oarious overlapping perspectives, why aren't there anyoverlapping or 1/2-shaded buildings? It's like their software ensures completeness as it seams them together

 

[NC_Mog]

All of the tall buildings were probably "tweaked" by google to give viewers a sense of where the tall buildings are. Otherwise all you would see is the roof and have no perspective of if they were 1 story or 50 stories tall.

 

[RatLabGuy]

All of the tall buildings were probably "tweaked" by google to give viewers a sense of where the tall buildings are. Otherwise all you would see is the roof and have no perspective of if they were 1 story or 50 stories tall.

... then wouldn't you "tweak" them to all be viewed from the same direction, instead of different perspectives of building beside each other?