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Near me there is an area on Google Earth that is covered up by a gray square:
The historical imagery for the tiles shows the underlying area and it is just a few ordinary upper middle class homes, nothing special or out of the ordinary.
Why would there be this random gray square appearing in just the current view?
It appears to be some kind of cache corruption. So, the tiles are missing in the cache. They get rendered in historical mode, but not in current mode.
I restarted Google Earth and it did display the affected area, so it would appear to be just a cache corruption.
