Monday, October 15, 2007

Google Maps: Insanely Detailed about Ground Zero?

I was trolling around Google Maps this afternoon and noticed something odd about its building details for the WTC construction site, a/k/a Ground Zero. The building outlines they have for NYC are quite accurate, I don't know if they get them from the Department of Buildings or a clutch of gnomes riding around in Prii measuring the dimensions. But I think they've either gone overboard or just have a glitch in their tiles for the former 10248 zip code:

Screenshot of Google Maps tiles for the WTC Screenshot of Google Maps tiles for the WTC

It appears that Google are now displaying the construction trailers dotting the WTC site (though if they're that accurate I'd expect a better job showing the temporary PATH station).

Update: I have no idea what the gray blobs are in the images (perhaps inserted by the demo copy of Pixelmator I used?)

Here's an embedded Google Map which may or may not show what I am writing about depending on various things in the URL which I don't understand:


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e.p.c. posted this at 22:00 GMT on 15-Oct-2007 from Brooklyn, NY. , Comments [2]

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