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Featured on German wikipedia. Interesting combination of satellite photography and mapping software. The image page has a more detailed caption in Afrikaans, which I can't read. (Astute readers of the last few noms may have noticed that I am mining the German wikipedia's version of FP-- this isn't cheating, is it?
Proposed caption
This perspective-view image of the South African city of Cape Town and its environs around the Cape of Good Hope, including Table Bay (at the lower left), and Table Mountain, a 1,086 meter (3,563-foot) tall sandstone and granite natural landmark. The image was generated by combining NASA satellite imagery with elevation data collected from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).
Articles this image appears in
Cape Town, Table Mountain, Table Bay, Cape Peninsula, Sunday Times Golden Globe Race
Creator
NASA
As is frequently pointed out, commons has different FP standards. The foreign-language wikipedias theoretically don't. Also, is there any easy way of seeing, on commons, whether a particular image is used in wikipedia articles? On the commons image pages, the only links that I see are to other commons pages. Spikebrennan 21:01, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Per [1]: This Landsat and SRTM perspective view uses a 2-times vertical exaggeration to enhance topographic expression. The back edges of the data sets form a false horizon and a false sky was added. Colors of the scene were enhanced by image processing but are the natural color band combination from the Landsat satellite. The caption can be fixed to indicate that there is 2x vertical exaggeration-- does this really spoil the image? Spikebrennan 20:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 09:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]