Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Home of the Seattle Mariners baseball club, the Safeco field has a retractable roof, which was open on the day of this photo. Just to the north is Qwest Field, a football stadium home to the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders.
The two fields were built to replace the Kingdome, which was demolished in the world’s largest implosion of a single concrete structure on March 26th, 2000.
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They must be preparing for the Google Sightseeing future — Qwest Field now also has Large Type on its roof:
http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/nfc/seahawksstad800.jpg
Its very grey
now if it could only zoom in to see Ichiro!
If you browse to the stadium using GoogleEarth you can see a “down” on one of the goal lines in front of full house. (Apologies for the British commentary on US football).
And it’s a Placemark: touchdown / Google Earth!