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Yesterday we had a look at the most recent Google Earth imagery update. Today, we are having a look at what interesting sights can be found in the imagery, specifically in the United States. In a later post we will look at other parts of the world.

We have looked at the work of Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada before. Another of his works is now visible in the Google Earth imagery of San Antonio, Texas. It is called Nyssa, after its subject, Nyssa Gomez. As of this writing the artist’s website is down, but you can read more about the artwork here.

Nyssa, by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.

We have already had a look at Super Bowl 50 in Google Earth. The Super Bowl title was won by the Denver Broncos, and when they got back home to Denver, Colorado, they held a victory parade. See ground level photos of the event here.

Crowds gathered for the Denver Broncos victory parade.

Heavy rains in December 2015 resulted in the flooding of the Mississippi River. We mentioned it at the time and had a look at previous Mississippi flooding events. Now, there is quite a lot of imagery in Google Earth relating to the event. St. Louis, Missouri, is at the confluence of three large rivers, the Mississippi River, the Missouri River and the Illinois River. There are a number of satellite images of the region captured in early January showing the flooding. There was more flooding in March but no related imagery as yet.

Flooding in St. Louis, Missouri.

Flooding in St. Louis, Missouri.

There are also images further down the Mississippi as the water travelled south.

Flooding of the Mississippi near Osceola, Arkansas.

Flooding of the Mississippi near Arkansas City, Arkansas.

There was a Tornado in Dallas, Texas, which was part of the same group of Tornadoes as the one we featured yesterday. See some aerial images here. There is an image of Dallas in Google Earth that was captured a few days after the Tornado in response to the event. But, based on this map we believe the main path of the tornado started just north of the image. There is also this funny story relating to the event. A demolition company charged with demolishing one of the houses damaged by the tornado relied a bit too heavily on Google Maps and demolished the wrong house!

For all the locations featured in this post, including outlines for some of the relevant imagery, download this KML file. Remember that much of the imagery can only be seen by switching to ‘historical imagery’.

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We have a number of times looked at art work large enough to see in Google Earth, including some of the largest pieces of art in the world.

Just over a year ago, we had a look at a piece of art called ‘WISH’ by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada. Although Google Earth does not have any imagery of it, we created an image overlay so that you could see it in Google Earth.

Recently, some imagery of Washington DC, USA, has been added to Google Earth, and it shows another of Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada’s pieces called ‘Out of One, Many’ on the lawn near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

‘Out of One, Many’ by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.

We had a look at the locations of some of his other large artwork and found one other that is visible in Google Earth’s imagery. It is called ‘Grounding Gratitude’ and is in Paris, France.

‘Grounding Gratitude’ by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.

We identified the locations of most of his other large pieces, and have created image overlays or photos for you to view in Google Earth by downloading this KML file

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Jorge Rodriquez-Gerada is an artist that creates amazingly large pieces of art. A great example is his “WISH” installation, shown below, which took several years to complete.

I grabbed a copy of an aerial shot of WISH from Colossal and overlaid it onto Google Earth to create the image above. You can download this KML file to see it in Google Earth for yourself.

Jorge has created many pieces of art around the world, and it’s likely that some can be found in the native Google Earth imagery. If you can track one down, please leave a comment and let us know. For more about Jorge and his artwork, you can visit his website at www.jorgerodriguezgerada.com.

(via Beautiful Decay)

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