> For what it's worth, that looks like distortion I've seen in other Google Maps images. I'd like to think that I would've noticed before reading your comment

> For what it's worth, that looks like distortion I've seen in other Google Maps images. I'd like to think that I would've noticed before reading your comment but I saw the picture after... it looks pretty obvious though, especially to the right where the distortion follows the stitching line where there is clearly different light. Even if the distortion were believed to be real, some of the discontinuities in the structure would be so severe as to be catastrophic.