What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thursday, April 07, 2005
parallax: an apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position providing a new line of sight
This is the view from folks on the ground whenever anyone does a Google Maps search like this. For another view, see this.
On a related note, this site keeps a log of interesting Google Map discoveries made by various bloggers. My favorite is this one, where some fellow has written the name "DAVE" in big letters in a field in Illinois (look right in the middle). Indeed, grafiti has been taken to new levels.