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Google Maps and our planet Earth
Google maps are absolutely wonderful.
I've been travelling through the world with them, and I never cease to amaze me.
For starters, I went to find some of the places I've been to, such as the London Eye and the Big Ben, in London, England, or the Skydome (er.. Rogers Centre) and the CN Tower, in Toronto, Canada (I was there last week for YAPC::NA).
And then you can search for things you've never seen before, such as the Statue of Liberty (in my particular case). Oh, and is this what I think it is?
And I feel like I've been learning a lot from that. For instance, Portuguese TV gave an idea of Iraq that has nothing to do with the pictures I see here. Yes, I know the pictures might be outdated, but still... And have you seen this monument? Wow... That, BTW, is the Shaheed Monument.
Anyway, I thought that, besides of finding your homes and all those places that are familiar to you, it would be nice to pose a list of things and see who could find them
So here you go, a couple of challenges:
- The biggest boat
- A desert island with huge capital letters spelling "HELP" (no, I don't know whether there is one)
- A desert island with huge letters spelling "Perl"
- An elephant (or a herd of them, preferably)
- An ant (extra points for this one)
- The biggest bridge (this one is the biggest in Europe)
- An airplane taking off, flying or landing
- The biggest helicopter
- The biggest concentration of helicopters possible
- People climbing up a mountain
- The biggest swimming pool
- More weird things
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
re Is this what I think it is? (Score:1)
The rectified oblique views can be disconcerting; Lady Liberty is particularly twisted from preferred perspective. In some urban areas, adjacent skyscrapers [google.com] are from different passes, and so seemingly cross in the air.
Re your Challenges
Alas, your Airplane is taxiing on the taxiway not landing or taking off. What is "weird" in the "Other" Lisbon? Regardi
Bill
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Re:re Is this what I think it is? (Score:1)
Great, I won! :-)
What is "weird" in the "Other" Lisbon?
Look again [google.com]... If you still can't see it, think "dirty" thoughts. Only about half the people get it O:-)
your Airplane is taxiing on the taxiway not landing or taking off
I never said it was :-) I simply put a link to an airplane as an example :-)
As for all your other links, ++ and ++ :-)
Re:re Is this what I think it is? (Score:1)
Oh. Looked like perfectly normal European triumphal parkway, such as we practice in Boston.
If you hadn't guessed, I like maps :-) I wish GoogleSat were using slightly more up-to-date images, though -- there are brownfields where buildings have grown, and parking lots where grass has been planted.
Bill
# I had a sig when sigs were cool
use Sig;
Re:re Is this what I think it is? (Score:1)
I think it varies with the place. Some places they're over five years old, others are less than a year...
when and where (Score:1)
The "Old" are locally more obvious to me than the "new".
Bill
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use Sig;
Re:when and where (Score:1)
I'm saying this because one can see the car lights [google.com], at times
You'll spot them easily if you use their software, but that only runs on Windows... argh...
Night? Re:when and where (Score:1)
The bridge over the road [google.com] a bit east of your focus has a crisp shadow (left) and a bus with presumed headlights about to pass under. I suspect this is a late afternoon image with running headlamps already being somewhat effective.
The nice red-tile roofs would not be so cheery cherry, nor the backyard pools so azure, in IR, even if the leafy lawns were false-colored
Bill
# I had a sig when sigs were cool
use Sig;
Re:re Is this what I think it is? (Score:1)
Eh... Someguy tells me *this [google.com]* is the real Queen Mary...
I wonder if there's two of them...
Two QM's (Score:1)
But no reason the same ship couldn't be in two places on Google Earth ... since they're not simultaneous. Sort of the the tour-bus-driver who appears at both ends of the old motorized panorama-cam group photos ...
Bill
# I had a sig when sigs were cool
use Sig;
Re:re Is this what I think it is? (Score:1)
That may be the Queen Mary 2, the original is in Long Beach, CA (USA) and doesn't go anywhere anymore.
planes and non-Google sat (Score:1)
For news-worth Sat pr0n from other sources, try the Intel Briefing picture of the week [globalsecurity.org].
Alas, no Helicopters spotted for sure yet. Sikorsky, Bridgeport [google.com] has some interesting shapes shrouded in the wispy clouds, but no confirmed. There should be a
Bill
# I had a sig when sigs were cool
use Sig;
Re:planes -- Cheating / Spoiler (Score:1)
Bill
# I had a sig when sigs were cool
use Sig;