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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]
Interstate 235 (I-235) in Iowa is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that runs just north of downtown Des Moines through the heart of the Des Moines metropolitan area.I-235 runs from the junction of I-35 and I-80 in West Des Moines to the separation of the same two Interstates in Ankeny.
U.S. Highway 63 was designated along Primary Roads No. 13, 24, and 2, which was the Daniel Boone Trail from Missouri to Des Moines. [6] Once the U.S. Highway System was established, the automobile association-sponsored roads gradually disappeared. [8] A map of Iowa's U.S. Highways as laid out in 1926
A Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California in November 2010. The United States was the first country to have Google Street View images and was the only country with images for over a year following introduction of the service on May 25, 2007. Early on, most locations had a limited number of views, usually ...
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Between De Soto and Adel, the highway overlaps US 169 before splitting off to the east toward Des Moines. Through the Des Moines area, the highway runs about one mile (1.6 km) north or south of the I-35/I-80 corridor. At Altoona, the route again overlaps I-80 until Newton, where it splits away from I-80.
The bypass around Des Moines, Iowa, is a 25-mile-long (40 km) freeway around the south and east of the Des Moines metropolitan area. The route is made up of two state highways – Iowa Highway 5 (Iowa 5) and U.S. Highway 65 (US 65). The bypass begins in southwestern West Des Moines at Iowa 5's interchange with Interstate 35 (I-35).
In Des Moines, I-35 has a 12-mile (19 km) overlap with I-80. The concurrency takes place northwest of the downtown district of the city. At exit 127 of I-80, the overlap turns east and terminates at exit 137 via an interchange with I-235. North of Des Moines, I-35 is mainly parallel with US 69, traversing a vast and rural area of Iowa. [6]