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.