Michael Cash wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:26:25 +0900, Michael Cash
> <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
> inscribed:
> 
> 
>>On 6 Jul 2005 03:06:48 -0700, declan_murphy@hotmail.com brought down
> 
>>from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
>>>Bloody amazing stuff.
>>>
>>>http://earth.google.com
>>>
>>>Was just looking at my house in Sydney, right down to the last tree I
>>>planted. Wish the resolution was as good for the areas of Japan I
>>>"visited".
>>
>>I see very clearly a park in Aomi Futo that was turned into a parking
>>lot two or three years ago.
> 
> 
> In fact, I see things around the container yard areas that were not
> there the first time I went down there, around 6 years ago. And the
> current features looked somewhat weatherworn even then.
> 
> Just how old is this data anyway?

The data for the US is newer.  A building at my college campus that was 
completed just about 18 months ago was either complete or very nearly so 
in the photo.  Japan, I don't know.

-- 
Curt Fischer