
About a month ago Yahoo/Flickr finally added a high resolution image of Helsinki and it was a much newer image than the perhaps two year old image that Google Earth had been using. But now Google has updated their image of Helsinki and it's fresh, even a bit newer than the one Yahoo uses. The Kamppi shopping center at the lover left corner of the image is ready, the extension to the parliament building as well and the old stable that burned down in the summer is gone and a sandy triangle in the middle of the upper rim of the image can be seen where the stables used to stand. The image is very similar to the one Yahoo has, but there is one difference: in the lower right corner of the building you can see a large construction crane sticking out of the Stockmann department store (they actually placed it in an elevator shaft and made a hole in the roof - pretty ingenious) and this is why it is obviously newer than the image Yahoo uses.
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