Blair Humphreys has downloaded the latest version of Google Earth, 5.0, and reports a feature that will delight urban historian types: The ability to go back in time to earlier images. The coolest new feature of the program is that it allows you to search historical aerials. With Oklahoma City,...
Posted by Michael Bates on February 5, 2009 12:47 AM
The U. S. Geological Survey is mapmaker to the Federal Government, but their topographical maps are used by ranchers, hikers, hydrologists, miners -- anyone interested in the shape of the land and what lies beneath. Because they also depict cultural features in rural areas -- roads, houses, schools, churches, cemetaries...
Posted by Michael Bates on January 27, 2009 8:50 PM
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