Have you seen the update to google earth?

[Rchawks]

They made it easier to see back in the day, cheesy as some shots are, it means a lot when looking for a past reference. Right on Google earth.

 

[Kilrah]

What?

 

[MA2 317]

What?

View a map over time - Google Earth Help

Current imagery automatically displays in Google Earth. To discover how images have changed over time or view past versions of a map on a timeline: Tips You can zoom in or out to change the star

support.google.com

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[MA2 317]

They made it easier to see back in the day, cheesy as some shots are, it means a lot when looking for a past reference. Right on Google earth.

Before drones it was aerial photography from a plane.

I remember seeing big white cross hairs and right angled lines painted on some roads back in the day.

These were registration marks to line up the aerial photos to make a map

We have it easy today with software to stich together a photo in seconds vs. days of producing photos from film in a darkroom.

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Thanks for sharing.

 

[Rchawks]

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Before drones it was aerial photography from a plane.

I remember seeing big white cross hairs and right angled lines painted on some roads back in the day.

These were registration marks to line up the aerial photos to make a map

We have it easy today with software to stich together a photo in seconds vs. days of producing photos from film in a darkroom.

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Thanks for sharing.

That you for you response, it's appreciated.

I use google earth to look at past areas where I've lived and worked in the past and until now for me to see back say 30 yrs and was very difficult to see these satellite views easily. Now it's much easier after the update to view simply go to the years with a new slider option.

 

[Kilrah]

I still don't get it, the time slider has been there for more than a decade?

 

[Rchawks]

Yes, very true I know. What I'm saying it's a bit easier now to use, at least for me using the new slider for time, because it is different type of slider.