The subdivision that wasn’t there
Del Creek Estates was platted in 2003; it’s up toward the northeast corner of Del City, west of Sooner Road and north of Reno Avenue. While I was planning my escape from the CrappiFlats™, I looked at a couple of the model homes, modest but modern.
Yahoo! Maps shows it like this:
The street names aren’t in place, but you can tell where it is. (The stuff to the east of Sooner Road is a long-established Midwest City neighborhood.)
Mapquest renders it this way:
For some reason, though, Google has never heard of it:
If I didn’t know better — and I don’t — I might think it had been erased. (Here’s a view of the area west of Sooner in TIFF format. [Warning: over 1 MB.] Screenshots by Trini.)
McGehee »
7 November 2009 · 4:35 pm
Google Maps doesn’t seem to be very systematic about keeping its imagery updated. Its aerial shots of Coweta County show a place that might support 75,000 people — we’ve been over 100,000 for quite a while now.
CGHill »
7 November 2009 · 4:55 pm
Which is odd, given the fact that I’m already getting Googlers looking for “Acura logo inverted” (q.v.).
McGehee »
9 November 2009 · 11:25 am
Maybe they need to put their bots in charge of finding the most up-to-date satellite imagery.