{"id":558,"date":"2016-06-28T20:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-06-28T20:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:29:49","slug":"new-satellite-images-of-wtws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"New Satellite Images of WTWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read that <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.googleblog.com\/2016\/06\/keeping-earth-up-to-date-and-looking.html\">Google Earth<\/a> updated their Earth images from Landsat 7 to Landsat 8. Of course the first view I had to inspect was the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere and Kawameeh Park.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_559\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160628GoogleEarthUnion-1200.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160628GoogleEarthUnion-1200-320x213.jpg\" alt=\"Google Earth WTWS\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160628GoogleEarthUnion-1200-320x213.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160628GoogleEarthUnion-1200-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160628GoogleEarthUnion-1200-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160628GoogleEarthUnion-1200-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160628GoogleEarthUnion-1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth WTWS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The image looks bright and clear with details I have never seen before. Rooftops, sidewalks, and streets look so clear. The colors (such as the golf course green) look hyper-realistic (not so great), but help clarify roads and green space. The labeling of landmarks and roads is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>It is awesome to see from this vantage point the American Water painting on top of the water storage tank. This is something you only see from a plane or a detailed satellite image such as this.<\/p>\n<p>This image looks like it is from the late spring or early summer. The trees are full. The swamp is green.<\/p>\n<p>However, where are the cars? Is it possible they captured this photo Sunday at 6 a.m. with no cars in sight on Route 22 or the Parkway? Have the cars been edited? Is this a multi photo time image with cars removed? Is this the zombie apocalypse in Union?<\/p>\n<p>Great photo. Thanks Google Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read that Google Earth updated their Earth images from Landsat 7 to Landsat 8. Of course the first view I had to inspect was the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere and Kawameeh Park. The image looks bright and clear with details I have never seen before. Rooftops, sidewalks, and streets look so clear. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}