Here we are in an area near Zug Island. This has a lot of houses which are burned abandoned or gone. There's some houses in many neighborhoods, but to respect the privacy of the owners, I don't take photos of occupied homes. I focus on abandoned and destroyed buildings and sometimes businesses. Sometimes I'll show a photo that may have a couple of occupied houses as an example of houses still occupied in the area or new construction. This to balance and contrast the photos in this blog. I'm also putting some regular photos of sites in Detroit. Most people ignore the burned out buildings and neighborhoods. Which is understandable. They just drive in, ignore the bad stuff and focus on the good buildings and perhaps their workplace. Visitors are often more shocked. But even many of them wisely avoid bad or abandoned neighborhoods.
Here's a little trick for you.
ReplyDeleteDownload this photo to your hard drive. The GEOTAG information will be included. Open up the information window with the metadata and search for the location in Google Maps. You can go right down to the street level view in Google maps and see what this looked like when Google drove by the address. Many properties may not have been in as bad a shape with more bricks when looking in Google Earth. You may even see a house that was intact but now is burned out and abandoned.
Hey I just tested this on a different computer, and this didn't work with the PC. The Geotags may not translate, it could be the downloaded tags are not kept. Sorry about that if you have a problem. I'll have to work on a way to get the Google Earth Tours out there somewhere and post more later. I'm going to have my sister check to see if she can download a photo and see geotags on her Macintosh.
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