+geognerd Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Go to N36 08 42.01 W115 10 51.03 in Google Earth. Zoom in real close. I think those are kids riding scooters or skateboards. This is 3" resolution imagery from March 2006. Amazing, huh? Notice the difference in resolution of the imagery, left side vs. right. Link to Google Earth message board announcement. Quote Link to comment
kb9nvh Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 (edited) Anyone notice the stratosphere tower has a shadow but no tower??? N36° 8'50.52" W115° 9'18.62" weird... Am I"m missing something or did google erase the tower for security purposes? Go to N36 08 42.01 W115 10 51.03 in Google Earth. Zoom in real close. I think those are kids riding scooters or skateboards. This is 3" resolution imagery from March 2006. Amazing, huh? Notice the difference in resolution of the imagery, left side vs. right. Link to Google Earth message board announcement. Edited April 1, 2006 by kb9nvh Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Anyone notice the stratosphere tower has a shadow but no tower??? N36° 8'50.52" W115° 9'18.62" weird... Am I"m missing something or did google erase the tower for security purposes? It's there. It's the round thing. Quote Link to comment
+Hynr Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 If you check the "Buildings" check-box,and "lean back (Page-down), you see that they have no interest in hiding it: Quote Link to comment
kerecsen Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 It's there. It's the round thing. Well, you can see a small part of the top, but most of it is missing (the way they merged successive pictures (from different perspective) caused the surrounding building to overlay the tower. Look for (the missing) rides on the top of the tower. Quote Link to comment
kb9nvh Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 OK, yeah, they cut off the top because it blended better with the surrouding photos I guess.. It's there. It's the round thing. Well, you can see a small part of the top, but most of it is missing (the way they merged successive pictures (from different perspective) caused the surrounding building to overlay the tower. Look for (the missing) rides on the top of the tower. Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 It's there. It's the round thing. Well, you can see a small part of the top, but most of it is missing (the way they merged successive pictures (from different perspective) caused the surrounding building to overlay the tower. Look for (the missing) rides on the top of the tower. I don't knwo what you;re talking about. It's all there. Look at this image: And then comapre it to the aerial shot. It's all there. You can see the roller coaster on the aerial. Quote Link to comment
kb9nvh Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 (edited) I dont see any red coaster in a circle sorry, I just cant see it? Here's the base which is what we see in the google shot: It's there. It's the round thing. Well, you can see a small part of the top, but most of it is missing (the way they merged successive pictures (from different perspective) caused the surrounding building to overlay the tower. Look for (the missing) rides on the top of the tower. I don't knwo what you;re talking about. It's all there. Look at this image: And then comapre it to the aerial shot. It's all there. You can see the roller coaster on the aerial. Edited April 1, 2006 by kb9nvh Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 (edited) Check the image below, and look at the spot where the tower should have been, and you will see a vertical line, showing Cut-n-Paste, and because of this editing, there is NO TOWER Shown, except where 3D-Buildings is turned ON. Image from above POST: <Check the vertical cut-n-paste line on the left edge of the street, to the right. Edited April 1, 2006 by GOT GPS? Quote Link to comment
kerecsen Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Great images kb9nvh! I've filed a bug report with them. Let's see when (if?) they will correct it. Quote Link to comment
kerecsen Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Check the image below, and look at the spot where the tower should have been, and you will see a vertical line, showing Cut-n-Paste, and because of this editing, there is NO TOWER Shown, except where 3D-Buildings is turned ON. I didn't notice the vertical line before. I guess they must have wanted to show roads more than buildings, and intentionally got rid of it. It's a bummer though, I'd love to see the ST from the top. Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Great images kb9nvh! I've filed a bug report with them. Let's see when (if?) they will correct it. I have examined the area quite a bit, and found a bunch of cut-n-paste lines, so I don't know how much fixing can be done, but I hope they can fix this location, because this tower is an important landmark. Quote Link to comment
kerecsen Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 I don't knwo what you;re talking about. It's all there. Look at this image: Btw, that's a seriously old picture. It only has a coaster, and all the other rides are missing. It must be at least 5 years old. Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 (edited) Some more Cut-n-Paste Weirdness: Notice how the buildings are "LEANING" toward each other, lots of cut-n-pasting here. Edited April 1, 2006 by GOT GPS? Quote Link to comment
kb9nvh Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Now thats a weird image!! all those buildings were taken from a different viewpoint and they had to glue them together somehow.. I do hope they fix the tower as I would love to see it. It was OK in the last set of images that google had up (before the 3" resolution ones). Quote Link to comment
+freejam Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Looks like the intersection of several aerial piccies - just happens to co-incide with the tower - shame but it's bound to happen. There's a zone of white space at an angle right across the tower - the only part of Las Vegas not actually built on Quote Link to comment
kb9nvh Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 That zone of white space is actually the only Piece of a tower leg that is visible. Look that the ground views of the tower and you can see how it is built on three legs...that white thing is one of them.. Looks like the intersection of several aerial piccies - just happens to co-incide with the tower - shame but it's bound to happen. There's a zone of white space at an angle right across the tower - the only part of Las Vegas not actually built on Quote Link to comment
cryochild Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 That zone of white space is actually the only Piece of a tower leg that is visible. Look that the ground views of the tower and you can see how it is built on three legs...that white thing is one of them.. Looks like the intersection of several aerial piccies - just happens to co-incide with the tower - shame but it's bound to happen. There's a zone of white space at an angle right across the tower - the only part of Las Vegas not actually built on Yep, thats an after effect of merging aerial photography. If you look at downtown Dallas, there are quite a few places where that happens. Quote Link to comment
+freejam Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 kb9nvh - try blowing up the image - IMHO I doubt very much it's a structural column its just floating up at roof level pete Quote Link to comment
kb9nvh Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 quote name='freejam' date='Apr 2 2006, 10:29 AM' post='2130787'] kb9nvh - try blowing up the image - IMHO I doubt very much it's a structural column its just floating up at roof level pete Well, there's lots in that pic that needs explaining but I can talk myself into beliveing that the two white things in the google photgraph are the structural legs of the tower...see my arrows. I could be wrong so I think we can at least agree that the picture doesn't do the tower justice (and I cant see the rides!!). :-) Todd [ Quote Link to comment
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