|
MillionDollarMurray posted:Not necessarily something to identify, but a strange thing I found dicking around in Google Maps thanks to this thread. Back before 9/11, I was able to take a tour of the Pentagon. One of the things I remember was that the building in the very center is a hot dog stand. It was called "Cafe Ground Zero" because... quote:“Rumor has it that during the Cold War the Russians never had any less than two missiles aimed at this hot dog stand,” Brett Eaton, an information and communications officer for Washington Headquarters Services, said while standing in front of the building. “They thought this was the Pentagon’s most top secret meeting room, and the entire Pentagon was a large fortress built around this hot dog stand.” According to Wikipeida, they have over 20 fast food restaurants there. http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=1049
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 16:16
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 10:41 |
|
|
Last time that hot dog stand made it to the thread, it was called "The Bullseye".
|
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 17:02
|
|
|
Maybe some locals could help me out with this. As a result of marathoning several seasons of the Wire, I've taken to looking at the geography of Baltimore, Maryland - and noticed this bizarre area in the harbor where they've got earth walls creating an artificial lagoon with a massive, rusted-out old ship inside: http://g.co/maps/ywbz6 On the mud-flats just south of it, there's a smaller but equally rusted-out ship, and what looks like a couple of train cars. Anyone know what the hell this is? All my google searches for "old ship baltimore" get fouled by the USS Constitution. As a little bit of content for other fans of the Wire, I found the street they used to film the scene where Kima got shot in season 1: http://g.co/maps/am6rn
|
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 17:37
|
|
|
ZebraBlade posted:
It's so show the Russia or the Soviets that we are meeting treaty obligations by laying out disassembled or cut out bombers/aircraft [especially in the case of showing bombers].
|
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 17:54
|
|
|
lonelywurm posted:Maybe some locals could help me out with this. I believe that's related to the cleanup of the old Kurt Iron & Metal scrapyard that was used until the late 1990s as a place to break up old ships (among other things) for scrap metal. Google for "Kurt Iron & Metal" and you can find stuff like this. e: My grandfather grew up in that part of Baltimore in the 1920s-1930s when most of the kids in the neighborhood would get extra money as part-time stevedores on the docks there, and he has stories of him and the other kids walking home barely able to put their arms down at their sides because they'd steal so much random cargo from the ships by tucking things under their shirts while they worked. Ah, youth. tacodaemon fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Apr 22, 2012 |
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 19:26
|
|
|
My contributions aren't terribly exciting, but I was trying to find things a little closer to home. Abandoned amusement park and water park in Illinois. "Santas Village" was closed down and abandoned for at least 5 years but I guess it's reopening? On the north end of the park is the abandoned water park, you can still see some of the water slides. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.092037,-88.260332&hl=en&sll=42.092092,-88.259847&sspn=0.005804,0.009645&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A FermiLab National Particle Accelerator in Illinois. This is one of the largest particle accelerators in the world, and they have a ton of land. You can see a controlled brush fire in progress: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=warre...,+Illinois&z=14 An abandoned hotel from the late 1800's sits in the middle of an empty valley that was once home to the small town of "Vishu Springs" Illinois. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=n+110...nois+62326&z=18 http://www.ghosthuntergirls.com/places/il/vishnusprings.html
|
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 20:51
|
|
|
Just FYI: Israel and Ukraine have now been added to Street View. Poland and Thailand were added a few weeks ago as well. Lots more weird poo poo to find!
|
|
#
?
Apr 23, 2012 19:18
|
|
|
lonelywurm posted:Maybe some locals could help me out with this. That is an interesting little area, and I was thinking about going down there to shoot some photos but I realize that the area is mostly car lots and probably highly controlled access. Interesting note about that, it is a sign of the times how "lean" those lots are, I remember coming through the tunnel there and seeing the vast seas of cars waiting to be shipped off to consumers in the past.
|
|
#
?
Apr 23, 2012 20:26
|
|
|
Wow this thread moves fast. Excuse the Bing link, but their low level images seem much better than the equivalent Google map. Not weird, but pretty cool I think. http://binged.it/Ii9j2l Trench systems from 1914-18 in the Beaumont Hamel memorial park on the Somme. Of course they've retained their form due to the normal preservation of not being ploughed under, but if you zoom out a tad and look at the surrounding fields, a lot of trench lines and shell craters are still visible despite 100 years of agriculture. And since someone posted Arlington cemetary, I will counter with Tyne Cot http://binged.it/IifxiK And the Ossuaire du Douaumont http://g.co/maps/43j9x
|
|
#
?
Apr 23, 2012 20:48
|
|
|
My wife and I went to DisneyWorld for our honeymoon, and noticed on the maps available then (10/2008) that there was a mirrored shell of our hotel across the lake. It looked like it had burned down or something, but i hadn't been able to find any information on it. Just now when I looked, I discovered that they're building a hotel there now - they cleared the land and poured foundations 5 years before they did anything with it. Interesting seeing it come up. http://binged.it/J375F4. is the oldest http://binged.it/J372sX is next http://g.co/maps/a2yhf is the most recent Here is disney's map of the place, which is starting to take reservations at the end of the month, so it must be even closer to completion than these show.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 19:35
|
|
|
LordSeXXXenb3rg posted:My wife and I went to DisneyWorld for our honeymoon, and noticed on the maps available then (10/2008) that there was a mirrored shell of our hotel across the lake. It looked like it had burned down or something, but i hadn't been able to find any information on it. It was the abandoned "Legendary Years" half of the Pop Century resort development (these buildings would have been for 1910-1940.) The first half of Pop Century didn't do as well as expected, so Disney scrapped the Legendary Years phase and redid Pop Century as Pop Half-Century. The unfinished half of the resort sat there for a few years before they started remaking it as Art of Animation. http://www.yesterland.com/legendary.html
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 21:13
|
|
|
LordSeXXXenb3rg posted:Decided that I'd post this here as I was flying over it today - http://g.co/maps/xtq2y That reminds me of the Nardo Ring, Porche's "secret" test track. About 8-miles in diameter. http://g.co/maps/zyu8t
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 21:30
|
|
|
Let's try something different now. My country (Austria) offers online maps of quite detailed height scans, too, and that can give some insights that is hidden by simple satellite picures. For example, what is only recognizable from as woodland from above... http://www.intermap1.noel.gv.at/web...hotspot2.gif%7C ...reveals some 19th century polygonal fortifications. Those little craters seen in between are bomb craters from WW2, by the way. http://www.intermap1.noel.gv.at/web...hotspot2.gif%7C And this wooded spot... http://www.intermap1.noel.gv.at/web...hotspot2.gif%7C ...is actually the site of a medieval castle, surrounded by concentric moats. http://www.intermap1.noel.gv.at/web...hotspot2.gif%7C
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 21:56
|
|
|
Estonia and Latvia have now been added to Streetview (and Mapcrunch) for those who care about such things! 
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 22:23
|
|
|
Earwicker posted:Estonia and Latvia have now been added to Streetview (and Mapcrunch) for those who care about such things! Brilliant! The Ukrainian coverage seems to be centered around Kiev and other major cities, but the Baltic coverage is a lot more thorough. I like that.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 23:25
|
|
|
Nenonen posted:Brilliant! The Ukrainian coverage seems to be centered around Kiev and other major cities, but the Baltic coverage is a lot more thorough. I like that. Yeah they did almost the entire countries. To be fair though, if you added up all the Ukrainian coverage it would probably be about the same size as Latvia.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 23:34
|
|
|
Certainly, I just love all the countryside and little special country villages... no doubt there's a bit more absolute content in the streets of Kiev though.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 23:39
|
|
|
Nenonen posted:Certainly, I just love all the countryside and little special country villages... no doubt there's a bit more absolute content in the streets of Kiev though. Odessa has coverage, and that's a really interesting city to look around. Really hope they expand the Russian coverage soon too. Yandex has a ton of coverage of Russia but I don't like the interface at all (and obviously it doesn't work with Mapcrunch)
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2012 23:53
|
|
|
My hometown of San Diego has a crapload of cool military stuff to view from above. Here's a submarine station, you can see a few nuclear subs just hanging out having a good time. One is in drydock. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+d...California&z=18 Located directly across the bay is North Island, and this is where the Navy stores some of its munitions. The dock above is where the ships reload. The munitions ships are bad rear end (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/USS_New_Orleans%3B10091811.jpg) http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+d...California&z=16 And of course, here's NCAS Miramar - all kinds of awesome planes ready to gently caress poo poo up http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+d...California&z=16 Also - aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers blow my mind. They have ~3,000 people aboard, attack choppers, jets, amphibious assault vehicles, missiles, special ops teams, etc etc. Seeing them sit in our harbor is cool and weird. I know I'd be making GBS threads my pants if I was in another country and wasn't American and I saw a carrier off the coast. Comprehensive murder/rape boat. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+d...California&z=17 I can dig up more if people want. Edit: took out the stuff I was wrong about. Sorry. giznot fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Jul 12, 2013 |
|
#
?
May 22, 2012 23:13
|
|
|
And of course, here's NCAS Miramar - all kinds of awesome planes ready to gently caress poo poo up http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+d...California&z=16 Wow, didn't realize those aircraft were so..leaky.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 00:28
|
|
|
Outlet posted:And of course, here's NCAS Miramar - all kinds of awesome planes ready to gently caress poo poo up Is that a P-40 next to the two F-15s
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 01:24
|
|
|
Outlet posted:Wow, didn't realize those aircraft were so..leaky. That's how you know there's still fluid in them.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 01:51
|
|
|
giznot posted:My hometown of San Diego has a crapload of cool military stuff to view from above. An interesting to look at is Fleet Activities Yokosuka in Japan. Here's the link: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=35.293691,+139.662967&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=15&iwloc=A Highlighted at the green arrow is USS George Washington (CVN-73) and Google Maps has pretty detailed images of most of the base and aircraft. Theres also several ships in drydock, too.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 02:51
|
|
|
Alpine Mustache posted:Is that a P-40 next to the two F-15s Looks more like a P-51D or an F8F Bearcat to me. Edit: aaaaand i'm wrong again. It looks like a trainer aircraft- a T34 turbomentor, I'd guess. Triggerhappypilot fucked around with this message at 03:13 on May 23, 2012 |
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 03:07
|
|
|
Some more military aircraft; two lined up F-18s (I guess?) a few seconds away from landing at NAS Oceana in Virginia. Good timing. http://maps.google.com/?ll=36.833537,-76.021029&spn=0.005082,0.006968&z=19
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 03:16
|
|
|
TGKB posted:Some more military aircraft; two lined up F-18s (I guess?) a few seconds away from landing at NAS Oceana in Virginia. Good timing. I like the skull and crossbones mowed into the grass just before the runway. It's a nice touch.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 04:37
|
|
|
Pigsfeet on Rye posted:So I'm curious about what is going on here in southern New York state. If you look at the surrounding farms, you see a patchwork of small holdings, then in the center of the map area it goes to some totally different kind of agriculture, large rectangular fields, 2000 feet long or more, of...whatever. It caught my eye because it's such a glaring change from the area around it. Anyone know what people grow in that area? Color change may be due to sensitivity of the satellite camera. I live like 15 minutes away from this, mostly all of the farmland around there is black as tarmac and they usually grow onions in it. It is curious as to why it looks so radically different in the picture though, cause I dont feel like i walked into HR Pufnstuf when im near there.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 04:49
|
|
|
[quote="Cmdr. Shepard" post="402882000"] My contributions aren't terribly exciting, but I was trying to find things a little closer to home. Abandoned amusement park and water park in Illinois. "Santas Village" was closed down and abandoned for at least 5 years but I guess it's reopening? On the north end of the park is the abandoned water park, you can still see some of the water slides. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.092037,-88.260332&hl=en&sll=42.092092,-88.259847&sspn=0.005804,0.009645&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A Santas village was turned into a paintball park / petting zoo. I kid you not..half the park and the ice rink in the middle are paintball, bumper cars are still there, used as bunkers, the ice rink inside the middle is sup-air and the arcade midway is a nice change of pace, theres some good woodsball there too. I went to their opening weekend last year and had a blast.. Havn't been to the petting zoo yet..
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 05:18
|
|
|
Tangentially related, seen on reddit: http://i.imgur.com/UBvQ1.jpg Probably just a weird mannequin?
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 08:01
|
|
|
Mister Roboto posted:Tangentially related, seen on reddit: They use an algorithm to blur things that look humanoid which also catches things like statues and murals. There was a funny one earlier in the thread of one in an amusement park which I can't find now so have this instead. The Guardian posted:There's a lot of fun to be had in Street View's slightly obsessive-compulsive approach to privacy, which involves blurring faces wherever they are found (using the same algorithm to spot them that it employs in its free Picasa photo-organisation software): a poster for the film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People had its faces, yes, blurred – but the famous mural of the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands at the corner of Falls Road and Sevastapol Street in Belfast, which many had said was blurred, was returned to its natural form on Friday. "We do have some false positives," said a Google UK spokesperson. "We blurred a statue, and the faces of the team painted outside Manchester United's stadium, I think. But people can report it as a concern if they want to and we will unblur the picture." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/20/google-street-view1 
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 08:21
|
|
|
Mister Roboto posted:Tangentially related, seen on reddit: Whatever it is it's loving creepy.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 13:17
|
|
|
Liku posted:Whatever it is it's loving creepy. That one is real creepy though. Those eyes...
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 15:51
|
|
|
Mister Roboto posted:Tangentially related, seen on reddit: You can't see it from that angle, but there's another streetview image where it's quite obviously a wooden tiki-statue thing holding a surfboard. It's even got orange board shorts on.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 17:00
|
|
|
I'm an idiot and can't figure out how to link the Google Earth spots, so I'll just describe them.  Just south of Casa Grande and Arizona City, AZ near where highways 8 and 10 meet, are around 100 CORONA calibration targets--people are calling them Maltese Crosses--made of concrete from 1966. Lots of them are just out in the open and you can just walk right up to them. In the same Casa Grande/Highway 8 area, on S. Thornton Rd. near the intersection of W. Hanna St. are a group of long-abandoned, joined, dome-shaped buildings. No one seems to know what the Hell they were once for. Near the town of Oracle, AZ is Biosphere 2! 
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 21:52
|
|
|
Velvet Sparrow posted:I'm an idiot and can't figure out how to link the Google Earth spots, so I'll just describe them. Here are some links for the curious and lazy: 1. Maltese Cross - Just one of many. 2. Marshmallow Buildings 3. Pauly Shore's Summer Home Drunk Tomato fucked around with this message at 22:10 on May 23, 2012 |
|
#
?
May 23, 2012 22:07
|
|
|
giznot posted:Also - aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers blow my mind. They have ~3,000 people aboard, attack choppers, jets, amphibious assault vehicles, missiles, special ops teams, etc etc. Seeing them sit in our harbor is cool and weird. I know I'd be making GBS threads my pants if I was in another country and wasn't American and I saw a carrier off the coast. Comprehensive murder/rape boat. For amusement,  In four descending columns, from left to right: ITS Maestrale (F 570), De Grasse (D 612); USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), Charles de Gaulle (R91), Surcouf (F 711); USS Port Royal (CG-73), HMS Ocean (L12), USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), ITS Luigi Durand de la Penne (D560); and HNLMS Van Amstel (F 831). There's about 15,000 men in that shot assuming that all ships have full ship and air crews - most of them on Stennis, Kennedy and de Gaulle. For a reference, Spain's Invincible Armada totalled 30,000 men, of which one third returned home. Seeing a fleet of that size in the age of sail must also have been an unforgettable experience.
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2012 15:38
|
|
|
So i noticed this recently looking through Dubai: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.678353,55.752225&spn=0.034384,0.066047&t=h&z=15 If you zoom out a bit you can see it's a pretty recent development. It looks massive, could even equal the size of the palm tree islands, but gets cut off for some reason..anyone know if there are better images of what the entire shape looks like? I looked up Bin Majid Beach Resort but couldn't find anything.
|
|
#
?
Jun 3, 2012 04:36
|
|
|
Velvet Sparrow posted:In the same Casa Grande/Highway 8 area, on S. Thornton Rd. near the intersection of W. Hanna St. are a group of long-abandoned, joined, dome-shaped buildings. No one seems to know what the Hell they were once for. If those are the buildings I think they are, they are a rare example of fabulous space-age construction and intended for a manufacturing plant that never materialized. They were constructed a la papier mache: Huge ballons provided the forms. Once the exterior concrete cured, you were left with an oddly-shapen, well-insulated, inexpensive building. Edit: Newspaper to the rescue! Desert domes in Casa Grande remain empty shells.
|
|
#
?
Jun 3, 2012 05:23
|
|
|
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know how to search for user created maps? There used to be a drop down option on the Google Maps site, but I can't find anything now.
|
|
#
?
Jun 3, 2012 05:42
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 10:41 |
|
|
Itious posted:Slightly off topic, but does anyone know how to search for user created maps? There used to be a drop down option on the Google Maps site, but I can't find anything now. They seem to have eliminated searching for other people's Maps, as well as other people's Calendars. They're next in a long list of deleted useful features.
|
|
#
?
Jun 3, 2012 07:22
|
|
