The image shows what at the time was a dry lake bed. In the image below, I zoomed in closer on the Odom Lake Swamp. A triangular area in the upper right where no trees are growing.A depression near the upper left that interrupts the straight white line.A small pond in the lower left (north of Sherwood Trails).Note several other discontinuities in the image above: Flat featureless areas like this in the middle of dense forests can indicate ponding, at least on a seasonal basis. Nevertheless, it can still tell you a lot. Google Earth Pro doesn’t show contour intervals as a topographic map would. And that might tell you to dig further into the area’s history. But you could tell that something unusual was going on there. Looking at this, you wouldn’t have known that the large flat, featureless area was called Odom Lake Swamp.
Here’s what you see when you scroll back to 1978 (minus the red circle which I added to highlight the area of interest). To show streets that exist today (but that didn’t exist when the image was taken), select View/Sidebar.Scroll back and forth through time by clicking on the arrows.Arrows and a timeline will appear at the top left of the screen.Click on the Clock icon in the menu bar.From the menu at the top of the screen, select “View/Historical Imagery”.Click on the area that interests you to zoom closer in steps. When you first open the program, you’ll see a map of the world.
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The program is a free download and makes scrolling back through time simple. Google Earth Pro contains dozens of aerial and satellite images that are already scaled and aligned.
If you’re considering buying a piece of property, luckily, there’s an easier way to check on its past: the history function in Google Earth Pro. It’s a time consuming process and not everyone has Photoshop. But learning that required scaling and aligning maps in Photoshop. Many of the homes that flooded in Elm Grove on May 7 were built in or near it. Yesterday, I posted about the discovery of something called the Odom Lake Swamp on a 70-year-old map.
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