Wouldn’t you want an updated version of this view?
You don’t need me out there with you. But, let me show you what I came up with about seven years ago:
The only real hard thing was coming up with where today you’d need to be to find this view. The change in the city’s shoreline since the 1870s makes it almost impossible to spit ball it. But, if you take a look at this KMZ file in Google Earth, you can find a nearly where the perspective of the original birds eye view takes you.
Now seven years ago I poked around, trying to find a nice perch to take the same perspective from. I came up with a few good options, but ran out of time and interest to follow any of them up.
So, this is where you come in dear anonymous drone owner.
Since 2007, drones have arrived. Nice, inexpensive (somewhat) drones that people own and use. So, taking an hour or so, flying around the perspective line, I bet someone could come up with a nice recreation of the birds eye view photo.
And, when you do, would you mind emailing it to me? That would be awesome!
Very cool!