The gigantic Maxim cover is real... but did Google Earth see it?

I actually get Maxim, but teh 100th issue i got did not have Eva on the cover-instead i got some celebratory shiny cover. now i wish i didn't have that subscription.

"it seems as if the picture was taken then overlayed on top of Google Earth's satellite picture, mainly because of timing issues (the Google shots are usually a number of days old)."

Days? Try YEARS. Google Earth isn't a real-time system, nor anything anywhere close. See, Google doesn't actually have any satellite cameras (not that they couldn't afford them with their inflated stock prices)...all they do is compile images that other companies have taken of the planet. That's why you can drill down to great detail in urban areas of the planet, but rural areas have very little detail: The original owners of the satellite data had no interest in some of the data, so they threw it away.

Yeah the only way you can see it is by opening the .kml file. Though, I did notice, they decided to kill two birds during the Magazine fly-over. Just last week I was looking at Las Vegas via Google Earth and noticed how the Wynn casino/hotel was still in it's construction-phase. Now if you travel the strip, it's there in all it's reflective glory. So at least something has been updated!