So that explains it.
 

Apperently this place near where I live is under a constant shroud of darkness.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.86...0664&t=k&hl=en

HAHA, now I know where you livE!!!!!!!!!!! umm yeah, it's probably just the sattelights positioning at the time it took a picture

that is CRAZY. I love it tho. my city doesn't have that cloud. so there for, either you or lucerin are right. my money's on you.

If you look at the border, the roads don't connect a lot of times O.o

Good luck finding my house out of the mullions on there.

I... don't think Sattelites cast massive perfectly square shadows, so I don't think that's the explanation. No idea in hell what is, though.

I had fun zooming around with that satellite. I hope they really develop that so that I can zoom right down to my house, that would rock! I also want to look around other cities like London, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo. It could be very educational for geography. Me likey.

The black squares are obviously where flying saucers were at the moment. Or they're signalling stations for landing craft. Or perhaps it's a conglomeration of spirits. Those are the only logical explanations. It's a square of pure, unadulterated evil.

My guess, though, is that it's a tile of the map that wasn't set to the same color as the other tiles [the map is built from tiles of rectangular images, thus explaining the perfect shape.] Zooming out, you see there's many such single [and larger] squares.

Similair programs:
Terraserver
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
Earthviewer (Commercial software, free 30 day trial)
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,22348,00.asp
NASSA has one but I can't remember where it is.

I found that proggy a few days ago on a random news site and poked around my house a bit. So far I've found the place I used to work, my church, and a few of my friends' houses.