19.10.2008, 14:43
From a high altitude it looks amazing but what happens if you fly just a hundred meters above the ground for strafing a tankcolumn? In that case the city turns to be completely flat. Just like Google Earth when you zoom in at a city from a shallow angle.
Sorry to say but to me it is disappointing those city images.
Another thing I noticed: the representation of Holland/the Low Countries is historically incorrect. Those straight and large organized fields are definately post WWII. Before and during the war there were much more farmhouses with less area for agriculture per farmer and from above it looked like a patchwork of smaller fields. Right after WWII Dutch Government decided-for economical progression- to increase agricultural production by mechanisation and therefore it was much more efficient to have those straight rectangular fields which are much easier accessible for those big machines.
Just take a look at this 1943 RAF photo from the Netherlands:
![[Image: Land.jpg]](http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh195/Uufflakke/Land.jpg)
Sorry to say but to me it is disappointing those city images.
Another thing I noticed: the representation of Holland/the Low Countries is historically incorrect. Those straight and large organized fields are definately post WWII. Before and during the war there were much more farmhouses with less area for agriculture per farmer and from above it looked like a patchwork of smaller fields. Right after WWII Dutch Government decided-for economical progression- to increase agricultural production by mechanisation and therefore it was much more efficient to have those straight rectangular fields which are much easier accessible for those big machines.
Just take a look at this 1943 RAF photo from the Netherlands: