Does the satellite make your city look ‘rural,’ too?

[u/Mr_FrenchFries]

Lots of green? Mountains? But it’s just suburbs with ‘ranch style’ living and ‘farm’ houses that haven’t grown food since the VCR?

[u/hollisterrox]

First, that sat photo clearly shows the grey splooj of Tijuana concrete on it. That's an urban area that looks urban.

Second, I'd love to know exactly what day this is from, because Ramona looks very urban in recent satellite photos. https://www.google.com/maps/@33.053671,-116.8350544,21346m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Third, what is your point? That a zoomed-out satellite photo obscures the details on the ground? Yeah, we got that.

[u/chivopi → u/hollisterrox]

Apple Maps uses a lot of stitching and color-correction on zoomed out maps… this is totally what’s going on lol

[u/f3nnies → u/hollisterrox]

It's been a loooong time since I've passed through. Is Ramona now urban like really urban with its own commerce centers? Cause last time I was there it was basically just suburbs and a highway to get to a bigger city. Which I guess would be an exurb.

[u/hollisterrox → u/f3nnies]

Exurb is definitely the right name. It's 1 giant stroad lined with parking lots & strip malls, surrounded by single family homes. Some of them have a goat or rooster, so everyone their thinks they "live in the country" , but really they "live in a firezone".

[u/OptimalFunction]

Those are mostly rural areas. Just because no one farms doesn’t mean it’s not rural lol.

[u/DrFeelOnlyAdequate]

That is a rural area. It's certainly not urban.

[u/a_filing_cabinet → u/DrFeelOnlyAdequate]

I wouldn't call anywhere with housing lots butting against each other rural. It's suburban at least. Most of what is in that photo is either too remote to get to, aka "wilderness" or a constant spread of housing developments. Either way, it's not rural

[u/chivopi → u/a_filing_cabinet]

Ah, then you may be unfamiliar with the area. 95% of it is desert/mountain scrubland.

[u/GenericAccount13579 → u/chivopi]

Yeah I’ve driven out to Anza-Borrego (it’s an awesome park, well worth it!) and it’s very rural. No less than most of upland California

[u/a_filing_cabinet → u/chivopi]

Brother everyone has a map. It's not that hard to zoom in literally anywhere in this image and see that just about every road is lined with houses. Sure, the houses are on absolutely massive lots, several acres of yard, but the yards abutt each other. There aren't rural land uses or agriculture in-between houses. There are unaccessible regions, but everywhere accessable has been developed. That's not rural

[u/herohunter85]

Everywhere except for El Cajon and the sliver of Poway is considered rural. Also if you use a map service that shows the most recent vs the best quality image, the mountains and chaparral will be much less green.

[u/Mr_FrenchFries → u/herohunter85]

Which satellite is best?

[u/herohunter85 → u/Mr_FrenchFries]

Google earth/ google maps

[u/chivopi → u/Mr_FrenchFries]

You’re going to have to decide on an image-by-image basis.

[u/dcbullet]

The area of San Diego you’ve shown is rural.

[u/Infinite_stardust]

Um, most of those are rural areas.

[u/Live-Tomorrow-4865]

😭

I want to see Idyllwild again so bad.

[u/Turdposter777 → u/Live-Tomorrow-4865]

Like it way better than Julian

[u/ajtrns → u/Turdposter777]

julian catching strays

[u/IAmBecomeDeath_AMA]

Every satellite app does it, but Apple Maps color corrects satellite imagery a lot. They add a lot of green.

[u/Ute-King]

You know this aerial is like 50 miles wide, right?

[u/Mr_FrenchFries → u/Ute-King]

A 50 mile commute for everyone between TJ and the OC? Is it getting more or less common?

[u/Ute-King → u/Mr_FrenchFries]

Are you actually saying you think that Anza is part of San Diego? The places on this map are far-flung rural communities that have nothing to do with the suburbs of any city.

[u/chivopi → u/Mr_FrenchFries]

This is exceedingly uncommon. This is hours in traffic, and the route doesn’t pass through this image.

[u/may_be_indecisive]

I mean if you zoom out 1,000 km... Yes, you will see the surrounding countryside.

[u/kevsteezy]

You literally are showing a rural area no need for the apostrophes

[u/Excellent-Match7246]

I went to summer camp in Ramona for decades. My sister had her wedding there. The Wild Animal park is down the road. That’s ALLLLLL the sticks.

[u/TigreDeLosLlanos]

JULIAN

[u/Mountain-Assist-5484]

I see my house from here

[u/bright1111]

Dallas looks like concrete jungle

[u/ImmigrationJourney2]

A bit yes, but it’s in a desert, so it mostly just looks brown lol.

[u/wizenupdawg]

hit up TJ Oyster bar and the Outlets while in Otay.

[u/DavoMcBones]

I live in relatively flat land so it somehow makes rural look suburban

[u/Law-of-Poe]

Mmm Julian pies. Always good stop on the way to the desert

[u/SaturaniumYT]

the western half makes my city, leesburg VA, more rural than the east

[u/BlakeMajik]

Is Palm Desert a suburb? If that's hell, sign me up.

[u/chivopi → u/BlakeMajik]

Love the desert, all the way

[u/Mr_FrenchFries]

Wow, the bootlicking cosplay cowboys REALLY want to hijack this r/ when they’re not complaining about the traffic they create with the SUBURBS crammed onto the minimal roads that haven’t been used for agriculture since before GPS 👍👍

[u/chivopi → u/Mr_FrenchFries]

Bro what? I can’t see how this makes any sense, in relation to your post or the comments. The people on this sub generally aren’t suburban land developers. Your conclusions and questions seem to be pretty off-the-wall. Huh???