That giant face of Col. Sanders that KFC laid out in a desert a year ago can now be seen in Google Maps and Google Earth, which kind of answers the question about how often the satellite images are updated. The annotations people attach to locations in Google Earth are lovely, too.
See the video about how the face was built (via Google Earth Blog):
Earlier:
That's one big Colonel! Good post, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI imagine in a number of years America will look like one big patchwork quilt of gi-normous ads across the country, just so they can be seen on Google Maps. Ah, lovely thought, isn't it?