Satellite Images Reveal Humanity's Mighty Impact, for Better or Worse - CityLab

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<![endif] From The Atlantic Menu Commute Work Housing Weather Crime Politics Design Tech Navigator CityFixer Maps Photos Videos Search Photos The Daily Overview presents r efugee camps, environmental horror, Florida housing projects, and fields of lovely Dutch tulips. John Metcalfe @citycalfe Sep 24, 2015 Comments Share on Facebook Tweet The Dadaab refugee camps in 2014. ( Daily Overview / Satellite images © 2015 DigitalGlobe ) Benjamin Grant’s career as curator of startling satellite imagery began with, of all things, a problem with Apple’s much-maligned Maps app. He was preparing a lecture for friends about space and the overview effect and typed “Earth” to see if the map would zoom out all the way. “I t actually went to Earth, Texas , a small town in the middle of nowhere,” says the 26-year-old New Yorker. “The entire scene fille...

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