The following is a guest post submitted by Nick Russo.
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I’ve always been a fan of Rochester Subway content which looks at our city from a different angle. I thought I might contribute something in turn, that looks at our city from an aerial angle.
I noticed this week that Google Earth had updated its imagery to include snapshots from as early as a month ago. It is now possible to follow a lot of tangible changes that have been going on in the city for a while. I put together a handful of before-and-afters that I thought were interesting (to me anyway). Take a look at the album and see if you can spot the differences…
Filling the Inner Loop
Kodak Implosion
Carnegie Footprint
Citygate and Interstate 390
Collegetown and
Golisano Children’s Hospital
Dredging at the Port of Rochester
RIT Gene Polisseni Center
Mid Town Plaza – Street View
Did you know you can also view historical images using Google Street View? Here’s a timelapse of Main Street at Midtown Plaza from the ground. Some pretty dramatic changes are happening around us every day if we just take a minute to notice.
Tags: Carnegie building, Charlotte, CityGate, Collegetown, dredging, Eastman Business Park, Golisano Children's Hospital, Google Earth, Google Street View, I-390, Inner Loop, Interstate 390, Kodak building 53, Kodak implosion, Kodak Park, Midtown Plaza, Nicholas Russo, Nick Russo, Port of Rochester, RIT Gene Polisseni Center, Rochester, Rochester before and after photos, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester NY, satellite image
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Funny, I was just thinking of something like this the other day. As far as I know, it’s not possible to do the “time machine” thing on the overhead maps like you can on street view right? Someone should start saving off high res snapshots of downtown so we could get a real time lapse of downtown as it evolves.