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The building was completed in 1907 and renovated between 2002 and 2007. [6] It sold for $67.5 million in 2018. [7] The building held the first meetings of the Port of Seattle commission in 1911. [8] It was designated as a city landmark by the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board in 2008. [2]
Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.
Seattle. New York City: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-01875-3. Kim, Jae Yeon. "Racism is not enough: Minority coalition building in San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver." Studies in American Political Development 34.2 (2020): 195-215. online; Klingle, Matthew W. Emerald City: an Environmental History of Seattle (Yale University Press, 2008).
Google Maps' satellite view is a "top-down" or bird's-eye view; most of the high-resolution imagery of cities is aerial photography taken from aircraft flying at 800 to 1,500 feet (240 to 460 m), while most other imagery is from satellites. [5]
Seattle (/ s i ˈ æ t əl / ⓘ see-AT-əl) is a city on the West Coast of the United States.It is the seat of King County, Washington.With a 2023 population of 755,078 [2] it is the most populous city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and the 18th-most populous city in the United States.
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
Allied Arts of Seattle founded. Sister city relationship established with Bergen, Norway. [38] 1969 Little Bread Co. and Brasserie Pittsbourg in business. [45] Seafirst Building constructed. It becomes Seattle's tallest building for 16 years. [4] 1970 – Seattle Marathon, and negative income tax program [46] begin. 1971
Building the Monorail, 1961. In conjunction with the fair, a demonstration monorail line was constructed, running from the center of downtown to the fair, a distance of 0.9 miles; it was constructed at no cost to the city and was paid for out of ticket sales, and then turned over to the city for $600,000. (See Seattle Center Monorail).