I was killing wasting time on Google Maps today, trying to find the Sears Tower without knowing what it looked like or where in Chicago it was. You know, the kind of thing that’s fun to waste company time and bandwidth on. Anyway, I came across a place where the satellite images are stitched together in a very interesting manner. You can’t see the seams, but there are at least three different satellite photos represented here. The various angles of the buildings reveal the relative position of the satellite when the photos were taken. You can see the south and east sides of some buildings, the north and east sides of others, and the south and west side on some others. What it results in is a cool M. C. Escher look to the buildings:
