Playing with GoogleEarth and Katrina'd coast found some stark divisions.

[uppityperson]

New Orleans and associated city area now mostly shows post Katrina (though French Quarter/downtown/ nearby areas show only white outlines of buildings and other areas have no blue tarps/ no damage showing. Chalmette area I believe is early 2006 since Emergency Communities food dome is set up and was removed late spring 2006).

Mandeville (N side of lake pontchartrain) and Slidell (right to E of New Orleans) are pre-Katrina. Pre-Katrina extends E through the MS coast for a ways.


Next division in MS is between Espy Ave and Wisterla Dr., right W of Long Beach. To the E is post, to the W is pre. Amazing difference. Here are screen shots.




Am I OC?

[chchchanges]

1. I thought google reverted to pre-Katrina data for google earth in NO

... I use NASA's world wind most of the time:

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

[achtung_circus]

2. Before I go downloading

is the currency of the world wind images about the same a google earth, i.e. variable?

[uppityperson]

4. They did and there was protesting and outrage once it got found out.

I just downloaded the latest google-earth and found what I put in OP. Off to check google maps online and I found the same.

[nosillies]

3. Here's Google's statement on that

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/about-new-orleans-imagery-in-google.html

[uppityperson]

6. Thanks. Still parts of coast pre-Katrina, today.

From that link, April 2, 2007
{div class="excerpt"] Given that the changes that affected New Orleans happened many months ago, we were a bit surprised by some of these recent comments. Nevertheless, we recognize the increasingly important role that imagery is coming to play in the public discourse, and so we're happy to say that we have been able to expedite the processing of recent (2006) aerial photography for the Gulf Coast area (already in process for an upcoming release) that is equal in resolution to the data it is replacing. That new data was published in Google Earth and Google Maps on Sunday evening.

[nosillies]

8. "lost everything to google" -- i love it!

:rofl:

I've played around with it a bit with my friends and family in those areas, and it used to be that you never knew what you'd see when you pulled it up. Now the next time one of them is moaning about something they lost in Katrina, I'm just going to say "Google Earth says you still have a house, so shut up about it."

Needless to say, there's sarcasm involved here, but we're at somewhat of a joking point about some of that stuff now. Laughing is good!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. I just started playing with google earth today.

What a fun little toy.

I like the landscaped mickey mouse visible at Disneyland. And the SR-71 Blackbird on the flight deck of the Intrepid in New York.

[uppityperson]

7. Some places you can get close with good resolution.

Others not so clear, but fun none the less.

[crappyjazz]

9. So do the maps get updated online automatically?

Or do you have to do this yourself? I love using it, feels like my own personal CNN on my desktop. Now if only I could get that red circle that goes in and out like they do on CNN when they want to highlight one area :rofl:

[uppityperson]

10. I looked at this topic, this link, to the link, downloaded something and there it is

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2801893
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/04/10/google.genocide/index.html

But I found the same on the online google map page also. I don't know if they automatically update.