Re: blur due to speed on aerial photo?

My Land of Misery wrote:
On Feb 5, 11:48 pm, Scott O. Kuznicki
<scottkuzni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Indianapolis,+IN&ie=UTF8&t=k&;...

Look at the truck in eastbound lane 4.

Then look at other cars and trucks to the west and compare them to
the cars and trucks seen in the link.

The ones to the west seem elongated, but not blurred, and others
seem stubby.

Why is this happening? And why is that one truck so blurred?
Obviously, the satellites are not geostationary and the photo isn't
likely to have a shutter speed so fast that it prevents blurs, but
this is quite interesting.

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Scott O. Kuznicki, P.E.
Civil (Traffic) Engineer
Dedicated Highway Enthusiast
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'03 525i 5-speed
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If you think that's nasty, check out the I-55/64/70 bridge (Poplar
Street) in St. Louis. It's an obvious photo splice; it looks like a
FUBAR alignment job by the contractors.

http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&z=16&ll=38.618312,-90.181832&spn=0.004895,0.009656&t=k&om=0


Actually, this is an artifact of two things. One is the flattening
algorithm (projecting a 3-D item on a 2-D surface). The other is that
the right side photo was taken from a position farther north than the
left side photo. On the right side, you can see the bridge piers on
the north side of the roadway where, on the left side, you cannot see
the bridge piers at all. If you extend the roadway on the left into
the right side picture, it will cover the piers similar to how it does
in the left side picture indicating that the positioning is correct.

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--Andy
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