Google Maps Satellite Images Being Posterized?

Nov 19, 2009 - 9:02 am 1 by
Filed Under Misc Google

A Google Maps Help thread reports that at least one satellite image in South Africa has a weird posterization effect to it.

You can see it yourself at 33°55'7.79"S, 25°35'2.40"E, or Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Here is a picture:

Google Maps Image Weird

This looks like a heavily posterized image to me, but I doubt that was the case. There must have been some type of interference when the image was captured?

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

 

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