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I wonder whether these are real satellite images. It looks like the angle the photo was taken at is quite far from being perpendicular. Which is how I thought satellite images are usually made. Google's help page even claims that the images are updated occasionally!

Dave is that where you live? I use to live for six years on the Windsor side of the bridge. Next time, I'm in town, you got an invite to Tunnel BBQ.

Sven, it looks to me like they're doing some sort of tranformation on the satellite imagery to match the perspective of their drawn street maps. Remember that they bought these guys (http://www.keyhole.com/) a while back. Randy: yes, that's me. How far are you from London? I'm going to be there Monday and Tuesday of next week, at a company called Meridian.

I'm about 2 hours from London. Don't worry, I go to Windsor at least once every year, we'll catch up then. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=london,on+to+brampton,+on&hl=en

Hmm, I don't 'remember' which mapping company bought which one to be honest. I'm not sure we're talking about the same kind of transformations, though. What irritates me is that you seem to see the walls of houses which I thought shouldn't happen. What's that 'Engineers' music I see the cover of. Electronic stuff? Looks cool.