Cargill Salt Works near San Francisco. Weird, huh?
What’s interesting is that as you zoom out, the salt pans turn blue all the sudden. The larger scale photos must have been taken at a different time of the year.
Wow - used to work in a warehouse right there. The dock looked out over the salt flats. It’s the third building to the right of Willow St, on Central Ave.
Here’s another. Aren’t those cloud formations bizarre?
Google Maps doesn’t use satellite pics. They’re photographed by survey planes.
Google uses a combination of satellite and aerial photos and have recently put up their own imaging satellite.
Zoom in on the white thing in the middle of this shot, to the south of Helensburgh. This is the Captayannis. It’s visible from the shore.
They are cumulus clouds, arranged by the wind into “streets” - and much favored by sailplane pilots.
Huh, strange.
If you look around Pyongyang, North Korea (link, using the Hotel of Doom as a reference point), you find almost no vehicles of any kind on the roads. The streets and highways are nearly empty. I realize North Korea is a poor country, and maybe the Google shots were taken on a national holiday or something. Still, it’s eerie to see what looks like an empty city.