I think that's the point at which they splice the different patches of photos together. They look like different angles because they are.

Doh, sorry for the double post.

in addition, you can see a line at the top of the road where it changes.

I think they just grabbed images and mashed them together. Apparently, nobody checked if the buildings were all leaning in the same direction. :p

I believe they appear to be facing different directions because the image shown is actually a photo stitch. The satellite(s) that take thousands of pictures and they are pieced together by computers on earth. If the satellite is to the left of a building, the building will look like its leaning to the right and vice versa...likewise...if the satellite is directly above a building it will not appear to lean to any side.

I've seen these before. I think it has to do with the way the helicopter is flying at the moment the picture is taken, and how the seperate images are combined. This is fairly common in overhead surveying flybys. Not that I'm an expert, but so says the County Planning Board, and lots of other people.

Photos are taken by a moving sattelite; they are also teselated from many different images from different sources and times, so the positions are different.

It is just the angle of the individual shots. If you look at it from the perspective that this is one photograph taken with one lens then it makes no sense -- but this is actually a composit of many images that were taken from slightly different angles -- none of which are taken from a perfect zenith.

Not all pictures in the google local/earth are from satelites, I woujld guess that those pictures are from aerial photogrphy. if you follow the orientation of the buildings you will notice that their direction changes slowly from one orientation to the other and then suddenly they snap to the other orientation.

This behaviou makes me think that they were shot by an helicopter that sweeped the citty taking several pictures. The buildings rigth beloow the hellycopter while the picture is taken are viewed from the top they one arround have diferent orientation. The point where you stich two images get weird.

Not only visible at Google Earth, but also at Google Maps and mashups based on its API. In Tagzania we have a good collection of these Escher effect locations, and that one in Chicago is also viewable there.

i.e. the Eiffel Tower does some kind of weird curl-thing.

panoramic photo then stitching

YEA I GUESS THATS PRETTY COOL.

The buildings look like they are leaning different directions because they literally are. Wind can actually bend the buildings if they are tall enough. If you've ever been at the skydome and look straight up at the CN Tower it looks like it's swaying. It is.

yea, thats gotta be a point where four images are connected, this happens because opne image is taken, then the satellite moves and another is taken from a diff angle

i think its cuz the camera's in a certain angle

They probabably are leaning different directions. tall buildings like that do tend to tilt a little, and because it was so high up and the buildings are so tall compared to other ones around it, it makes it look more drastic than it is. Now who agrees with me??

I don't care, but it's making me sick looking at it! Lol

Why can't anyone spell properly anymore? Are we that lazy?
Are we all just supposed to accept poor grammar and poor spelling,
because of the influence of chat rooms, IM's and email?
That's all I have to say.

saster i agree w/ u, y is every1 so lazy, i think its gr8 that u r standing up 4 wat u blieve in

sry saster i dont no wat u r talking about, wen does ne1 ever use abb. 4 words?
ill brb

hahaha Saster you just made me laugh out loude. I mean loud. It is so true.

ur rite saster, y is every1 so lazy? lets all vow not 2 use abb. words nemore. r u w/ me?

Yo I think it's real the roads match up and evrything

i tried to find this on google earth instead of google local and i found the place, but the building or basically viewed straight from the top and they dont look like they are leaning in different ways

lol all pictures are taken by satellites, but sattelites are not above all areas of Earth, they follow a distinct path. Some sattelites have cameras to picture places on earth. For some places the cameras cannot zoom to positions where you cannot see closer than others.

And by the way this is normal because photos were not taken in one day but in months and probably i noticed they were taken 2 years ago cause i noticed some changes in landscapes or some building from my country that happened 2 years ago and google earth didn't have them.

Anyway its only the positions of the satellites that cause this think to happen.

They are different photos taken at different angles

Of course it was photographied in two photos whith the cameras looking in diferent directions.
And I an 11 years old, come on!

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cool
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ok. i love skechup

Google Earth images are NOT all taken by satellite. A quick glance at the Google Earth FAQ can tell you that.

http://earth.google.com/faq.html

it is that the pic is taken as a 2d image and not a 3d image and you are to the side of google earth and it make it look as tho they are lening

check out this pic. I found it just a little down from the first one. you can see the hancock tower in this one.
Chicago

There is a better one: open Google Earth and zoom in on the Empire State Building in the middle of Manhattan.

That's just the remnents of the great May 26, 1909 Chicago Earthquake... :)

Now i know where it is like that:
Activate 3D-Buildings and the look at the same spot, it's looking normal from that view.

its cuz when they take the satelite images. they just take a bunch of different images at different times and things like that and apperently from slightly different angles and put it all together. =D

It is obvious that it's because of the earths shape. Everyone knows the earths round!

makes me dizzy

It is called a 'mozaic'. Several (or many)pictures are spliced together or overlayed over each other, so as to appear to be a single picture. The pictures that you see from the'Hubble Space Telescope" all use Mosaics to form their pictures.

Okay, I think they're real. I've seen something like this when the buildings are leaning. In Montreal, Canada you'd see the building that looks like its falling. These look like the same thing