They are actually the old Cargill Salt Corporation salt evaporation ponds. The water in these ponds is many times saltier than sea water, the pink to red color is due to brine shrimp and microbes that live in these ponds. There is a massive restoration project just underway that will restore this area to the original tidal marshes that were there. The upshot for tagging is that they are water, but they are man made, and in a number of years they will disappear.
To get the full story on this, here are a couple of sites: http://www.southbayrestoration.org/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2003/03images/saltpond/saltpond.html Dan On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 11:27 +0100, Andy Allan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Peter Miller > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Btw, if anyone knows what is going on in the bay just north of Mountain View > > and the Googleplex then please do some suitable tagging. There seem to be > > loads of shallow ponds with weird colours (particularly weird on google > > aerial photography). I have tagged them as 'natural' and 'water' but I don't > > think it is really natural and it might not even be water! > > Using the flickr maps thingy, it appears to be some Salt Flats as per > http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/117376408 > > Cheers, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
