Quotes About Sprol

“A fascinating blog”     Dave Pollard, How to Save The World “Sprol is the dark side of Google Sightseeing.”     Dirty Greek “Sprol is garnering a lot of attention, turning the all-seeing Google satellite camera on our bleakest landscapes of overconsumption and decay.”     Fresno Beehive, weblog of the Fresno Bee “Negative eco-tourism from orbit.”      Impact Analysis [...]

Tangled Bank at OrganicMatter

The Tangled Bank is a semimonthly collection of science articles hosted by a rotating community of bloggers. This time, Tangled Bank #29 is a bit like a natural history museum suspended in the blogosphere. It features 40 articles about the full range of the natural sciences, including a very brief Part 1 of our piece [...]

Sprol What Is It? Contest

Act Like You Know and Win a Prize from Sprol Can anyone explain what is depicted in this image? Who can explain the curves and the little boxes, the row of buildings, the lake? What’s the story with this place? The lucky Sprol reader with the most convincing answer after a week or so will [...]

First Sprol Post

Welcome! This blog will show neat stuff from space via sites like Google Maps and Microsoft’s TerraServer. Please add us to your bookmarks and collaborative link sharing communities! Your host has worked in the space imaging industry for quite some time beginning at Earth Satellite Corporation over a dozen years ago. Anything more recent, we [...]