Google earth - at last, Edinburgh is not fuzzy

[occular]

At long last, Google Earth now has decent resolution aerial photos of Edinburgh!

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[anonymouseth]

quite recent too (check the quartermile project) and taken during the festival (check the meadows)

[occular]

I noticed quartermile and the tents on the meadows. I also noticed the festival tents set up in the pleasance.
Do you think it was last year? Or even this year?

I can see your house from here.

[zotz]

Last year, at a guess - there are still cars parked in the Crichton Street car park, which has been a building site since at least spring. Still, Mickeysoft's offering has Edinburgh pictures that are several years old, going by the same sort of evidence.

[anonymouseth]

last year, if not the one before.

there are 4 wheelie bins at the top of our street and they've since been spaced out. also - the quartermile stuff is a hole in the ground in the pix, but i think that the glass-n-steel towers were partway built during the last fest.

[funkyplaid]

Yes, there were four pebbles, two clusters of pine needles, and a crushed snail at the foot of your walk earlier last year, so it couldn't have been taken too recently. :)

Google Earth kicks ass.