Solid Block of Ise

Google Earth is one of my favourite timewasters. I love spinning that globe around and daydreaming. One of major pet-peeves with it though has been it’s rather illogical and spotty high-resolution coverage of this northern nation.

Sure, Stockholm was of course high-res, but the rest of the country wasn’t very logically resolutionized. Gothenburg, for example had no high-res coverage, while my old hometown of Jokkmokk had it. Gothenburg is a major city, Jokkmokk is not. There were also some funky strips of high-res out in the middle of nowhere, you could see trees upon trees and nothing else.

Umeå, the city where I live, had no high-resolution zooms. Zoom in and it looked like a giant green-gray-blue blob. Not the beautiful city that I enjoy living in.

That was until recently, I guess. I fired up GE about three minutes ago and noticed that Umeå is in glorious high-resolution! Yay! Now you can zoom in on where I live, if you know where I live

I did notice however that the high-resolution material is quite dated. I’d say they’re at least three or more years out of date, since several things that have been added in that timeframe are missing from the shots. Minor inconvenience, but I felt it should be pointed out to anyone who might be wondering. I don’t know the source of this material either, but it bears a striking resemblance to the aerial photos that Eniro provides on it’s mapping service.

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