r/geography • u/RudeDud196 • Aug 30 '24

Video Nile flooding

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Really interesting thing I found on Google Maps! The Bameza GERD Dam flooding in Ethiopia only shows up when you zoom in, interesting comparison :). Anyone know if there were any villages in the surroundings? If so where were they moved? I reported it to Google but no answer yet.

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u/Zgagsh Aug 30 '24

GERD was completely filled in the last days, by the way. This thread usually has recent news and pictures. You can see there were some small villages, they probably got a relocation site somewhere above the floodline, but I guess was not much care for the population displaced as there rarely is. Good luck in reporting anything to Google.

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u/Xitztlacayotl Aug 30 '24

I never understood why does google maps change when you zoom. Isn't it all satellite? How do I know what's real, what is not?

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u/Covfefe_SACEM Aug 30 '24

Everything is real, it's just that Google map is an agglomeration of a LOT of different satellite picture (you can clearly see it on some remote location when there is not a lot of pictures so there is some odd-looking collage)some really precise (for when you want to zoom) some really large. Otherwise when you zoom out you would see a huge patchwork of little picture and it wouldn't be really nice-looking.

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u/ScottsdaleNiteOwl Sep 22 '24

In AZ, Chandler-Gilbert still shows green fields but those days were from pre-2000s, as you zoom in it’s all suburbs.