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Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps

Posted by Zonk on from the sobering dept.

breadiu writes " Satellite imagery of New Orleans taken on Wednesday, August 31st is now available on Google Maps. Enter 'New Orleans' in the search field at the top of the page, or drag and zoom the map to the area. A red 'Katrina' button will appear at the top right of the map, next to the existing map buttons. Older images for the area are still available too - click the "Satellite" button to switch to those."

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  1. Particularly... interesting by mcc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Superdome - before

    Superdome - after

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  2. Re:However, by daviqh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe the next half will be up tomorrow...and did you see the (I think) superdome. They weren't kidding when they said the roof was ripping off!

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  3. Six Flags Under Water by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They're gonna kill me for the bandwidth this uses, but I managed to find a picture of Six Flags (a series of large theme parks for you non-USians, second only to Disney's stuff) after it was hit. It looks pretty disturbing to see rides halfway submerged.

    Six Flags:
    http://www.ecsis.net/~gregday/park.jpg

    Park Map:
    http://www.ecsis.net/~gregday/map.pdf

    The rest of the NOAA aerial images taken from a Cessna:
    http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

    But I warn you, it's very creepy.

  4. Much better pictures by Kredal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    can be found at NOAA's site, at http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

    The pics were just taken off the plane and thrown on a server. North isn't always up, and the pictures aren't very well labeled. You pretty much have to know what you're looking for before you can make sense of the pictures. But they are much better quality than that of maps.google.com.

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  5. Helpful views by Durango_44 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The company I work for has two franchised, retail stores in the New Orleans area--one on the riverfront downtown, and another in the Metairie area, north of the main town. These satellite images have provided us with the first comfirmation of the damage, and are remarkably useful (in our case, the stores appear to be dry 48 hours after Katrina's passage). The executives were delighted to see this, and earned the IT group some nice brownie points... There is a similar link on the Denver Post site today. The images are from the same company, and for the same date and time, but are markedly different in color from the Google images. Does anybody know why?