I recently was looking at downtown SLC and what the top of my office building looks like on google maps. While I had the map up, I scrolled over to Temple Square to see how that looked from above. What I found was a little weird. The Salt Lake temple and the old tabernacle are at an angled perspective and you can see the sides of the buildings. In all of my searching on Google Maps and Google Earth I’ve never seen another building like this. The images of most buildings are from a straight down view, even the other buildings on temple square are like this.

At first I thought it might be because Temple Square is a tourist destination and they wanted to show more of the sides of the temple, but after more investigation of tourist attractions and famous buildings, I still wasn’t able to find anything like this. 

Does anyone have an explanation? I was even curious enough about this to look on Google to try to find someone to ask but wasn’t able to find any good contact info.

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