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Google has created a Katrina button that appears when you call up New Orleans in
Google Maps. It displays a
satellite image of the
flooded city, fully zoomable. It appears that new imagery has been added, which (not to be churlish at a time like
this) makes one wonder why Google doesn’t update its Maps/Earth imagery more aggressively. Recent imagery is either
available globally, or was taken specially of New Orleans. [thanks to Evan
Brown and wilymon]
Google Earth is participating in the updated imagery as well.
This page links to Katrina overlays; click any link to launch Google
Earth and see the updated image. An amazing new feature comes bundled with these images: a transparency slider that
allows you to compare the pre-Katrina image with the new image. [via
Google blog]
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