failure to update: 20 February 2014

What is the point of Google satellite maps if they only present clean copies taken in the summer? Is there no satellite path near Independence Square/ Maidan Nezalezhnosti/ Майдан Незалежності in Kiev these days? 

Here is the structure of the square: divided in two by a main road. 

indepsquare.jpg

and here is the reality of Thursday, 20 February 2014:

or marginally closer to the ground:

Stephanie Whitephotography, urbanism, war