The people of Chelyabinsk found out exactly when the Google Earth satellite will be passing over their city, as a result they made this giant smiley face to make sure that their city stands out…
via chelcom.ru
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September 15th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
i am checking google earth now at the moment.
the position is right… but i don’t see the smiley
:’(
September 16th, 2008 at 8:30 am
that’s soooooo neat!!!
September 17th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Well you have to keep in mind, that it isn’t a live feed to google earth. It takes up to 3 years for some regions’ image to be updated, I live in ottawa and it took a little over 2 and a half years for our region to be updated with a higher res image.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
correction
i was checking google maps..
don’t have google earth installed but i guess they have the same images?
maybe i check it again over 2 years if i remind me about it
grtz!