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Google Maps Tokyo
Google Maps now has satellite views of Tokyo! Though street maps aren't there yet, limiting its usefulness, it's a lot of fun to zoom down on places I know.
Here are some locations I found:
- Nishi-Shinjuku (biggest skyscrapers around)
- Shinjuku-gyoen (large park)
- Hachikō, Shibuya
- Tokyo Dome
- Tokyo station
- Hamarikyū (Photos I took there in April)
- Imperial palace
- Tokyo Disney Resort
Since all photos being used aren't so recent, it's fun to notice missing buildings, such as the 1999-built Sumitomo Nakano-sakaue building, missing on the northeast corner of the Nakano-sakaue crossing.
Via Jean.
Update 6/23 (17:45):
What's this mess?!
Posted on June 23, 2005 at 15:28 | Tweet
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They did quite a good job connecting all the pictures together. I could play with this for hours..totally kewl.
Posted by Roy on June 23, 2005 at 22:26
That's how I spent most of my afternoon. :)
Posted by Patrick on June 23, 2005 at 22:28
Part of the center of Amsterdam is available too! The rest of the Netherlands will be "filled in" later this year.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.658832,139.700861&spn=0.006652,0.006845&t=k&hl=en
Posted by Erik on June 23, 2005 at 23:09
Hmm, that link was of Tokyo. You need to first click "Link to this page" before copying the URL.
A search for "Amsterdam" doesn't work, and my geography isn't exactly good enough to find it. :)
Maybe around here?
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.904693,4.347754&spn=0.020599,0.031672&t=k&hl=en
I like how the Google satellite maps give such a different point of view of a city.
Posted by Patrick on June 23, 2005 at 23:25
Haha, That Rotterdam! :)
Search for Amsterdam Netherlands.
Posted by Erik on June 24, 2005 at 01:59
Ahh!! I had missed that small patch. :)
Posted by Patrick on June 24, 2005 at 08:20
I keep thinking if they'd update these things regularly it could lead to some sort of new artform. People would be inspired to go about constructing stuff for the sake of snoopy satelites. Constructed replicas of downed UFOs (like that church that really really looks like a flying saucer in Helsinki), giant obscene graphics, etc.
Is it proper to show the Emperor's place that way?
You can claim that 100+ meter tall Buddah statue in Ibaraki is Daimajin on the loose... if the map went up that far in high res.
...And there's a nasty blurry seam running down through shibuya
Posted by ndkent on June 26, 2005 at 08:01
Actually, after getting kind of bored with Tokyo (I had a few boring days at work), I went looking for crop circles but didn't find any. :)
Posted by Patrick on June 26, 2005 at 10:23