Ian Besler: Along The Frontier Of Resolution (via stml)
Like the manifestation of superstitions supposedly held by nervous sailors in stories of early global sea exploration, we eventually come upon an unsettling and disorienting digital edge while exploring Google Earth. This boundary is common to most Google cities.
Google Earth’s indifference to existing political and judicial boundaries. The photogrammetric model of Los Angeles (dashed line) straddles Los Angeles County (in blue) and Orange County (in red), and its edge slices through no fewer than 11 Los Angeles neighborhoods and 27 cities in Southern California.