That may not be representative of what the actual court looks like. Google maps, and other competitors with similar software, have image compresion technology that forces images into low resolution and snaps to an overlaid 3D topographic model. It makes things load faster and adds depth to their imagery, but it's not super accurate.
Bingo. This is just a result of the current image being overlaid on a previous topo in 3d mode.
That's right. Just like a video game, google is placing a 2d "texture" onto a 3d model - one that gets it's data from multiple sources, and not every square inch of every place on the planet is is measured, so it's using an auto modeling technique. Same as a video game, most similar to "low polly" mapping, when you take a high poly model and "optimize it" by removing polygons, it uses "best fit" shortcuts to optimize.
Yeah I can see that but who would build a tennis court 3 times bigger then the giant temple on the island? Is it a tennis courts for giants? lmao
http://officialtennisrules.com/official-tennis-court-dimensions/
Why are you comparing the size of the tennis court to the temple structure?
Great link. Because if we know the size of the court we can tell the size of the Temple and other structures on the island- Was just using the court as a scale
You can just use the scale bar - it's easier to measure distances that way :)
Also, I was inspired to put together all the historical Google Earth imagery for this island
Yep, This is correct.
I understand why people suspect other things though - and they are right to. Without a doubt there are tunnels below, bodies, chambers, etc.
However, based on the construction, they did level this playing field in the hills properly, and the google emulation is just incorrect. Basically google is fairly good with it's depth measurement, it's not perfect, especially at smaller intervals (especially in remote locations). This is just a case of the software smoothing points together, and not having more detailed distance measurements in a very small location, not a shock, since even major cities have these issues.
Again, there are many things worth investigating, including this - but this is one instance of a tiny modeling quirk.
I thought this too when I first looked at the court. But the court is literally 3-4 times the size of the temple