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Any idea what this cross in the water off the coast of Cuba is? https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa...e3bc42071c88e85
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| # ? Apr 21, 2013 19:22 |
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| # ? May 25, 2013 21:46 |
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DatsEvolution posted:Any idea what this cross in the water off the coast of Cuba is? This is kinda a wild guess, but it could be reef seeding. They place heavy mesh with little bits of live coral all around to encourage reef regrowth in areas that have lost their reefs. They usually start out in regular patterns like that, although the scale on the light patches is pretty big for a manmade reef, and I'm not sure if they'd be that visible from above. It could be one that's several years along, though, which would account for the size.
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| # ? Apr 21, 2013 19:29 |
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Collateral Damage posted:In that vein, you also have the visible wreck of the Prinz Eugen here: http://goo.gl/maps/kKAQa The dragged a German ship all the way from the Atlantic over to some isolated island near Australia? drat. In fact there appears to be an entire island community just to the south of there. How interesting. Must be odd to live there.
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| # ? Apr 21, 2013 19:34 |
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Mister Roboto posted:The dragged a German ship all the way from the Atlantic over to some isolated island near Australia? drat. Well they didn't have to tow it that whole way, it was undamaged until it they used it for testing at Bikini Atoll, at which point it was irradiated so they had to tow it when they took it to the other atoll where it now rests.
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| # ? Apr 21, 2013 22:36 |
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Earwicker posted:Well they didn't have to tow it that whole way, it was undamaged until it they used it for testing at Bikini Atoll, at which point it was irradiated so they had to tow it when they took it to the other atoll where it now rests. According to wikipedia, actually they did: Wikipedia posted:The ship was then allocated to the fleet of target ships for Operation Crossroads in Bikini Atoll. Prinz Eugen was towed to the Pacific via Philadelphia and the Panama Canal e: e2: it was at boston for a while between the two, and probably got there under its own steam, so not quite as obscene a tow, but still a LONG way. e3: Wikipedia's source makes it sound less likely that she was towed all the way: quote:In January 1946 she steamed, with an American and German crew, commanded by Captain A. H. Graubart, USN, to Boston, arriving on the 24th. Proceeding via Philadelphia and the Panama Canal to the Pacific for atomic bomb tests, she survived an atomic explosion at Bikini 25 July 1946, and was towed to Kwajalein where she began to list significantly 21 December. That really does sound like she sailed Boston-Bikini was under her own steam, and was towed from Bikini to Kwajalein only. SybilVimes fucked around with this message at Apr 21, 2013 around 22:52 |
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:There's a site that will take you do a random location like this. I didn't realize there were so many.  Oh dear
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 00:26 |
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:There's a site that will take you do a random location like this. I didn't realize there were so many. This is really neat but does anyone know if there is a way to exit street view and zoom out? After looking through a good number of these, I wish I could zoom out and figure out where the place is, as alot of them aren't labeled. Sometimes you can get a little bit of context just from moving around a bit, but other times I have no clue if the train tracks I'm looking at are in Alaska or Norway, or if this little tavern I just came out of is in Boston or San Francisco.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 05:36 |
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Click on the word google in the lower left corner.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 05:43 |
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Thanks! That isn't really very intuitive and I guess I just haven't used this enough to have known that, but, that just made this even better.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 05:52 |
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The Secret Door took me to this: Obviously staged, though (Especially since it says "Photo by owner" on the bottom)
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 06:17 |
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What happened with the satellite here? http://maps.google.com/maps?q=59.97008,30.324733
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 10:38 |
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Pyromancer posted:What happened with the satellite here? That is how  looks, if you do it right.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 10:43 |
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Capt. Morgan posted:Click on the word google in the lower left corner. Strangely that doesn't work if you use the webgl version of google maps, clicking on the google always takes me to a field labelled 'whale point' in oregon if I have it enabled *shrug*
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 10:48 |
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Pyromancer posted:What happened with the satellite here? Aurora Borealis? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOOLrAa6LUw#t=36 Bazino Bazino fucked around with this message at Apr 22, 2013 around 10:56 |
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Vitamins posted:Regarding the night maps by nasa ( Central Australia lit up because we had massive bushfires there at that time. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-...-lights/4437664
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 12:56 |
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Masa posted:The Secret Door took me to this: That shop also has a biker going down the stairs and some other silly stuff. "From the Ohnwer" just means it was shot by a Google Trusted Photographer, then whe it says, Photo by: that's the GTP who did it. 99% of the interior ones are like that, only some older ones shot under a different program are attributed differently.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 13:04 |
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Speaking of interiors, Mapcrunch has recently added about 10,000 new interior locations, so you can now see what Irish pubs look like in about 14 different countries (surprise they look exactly the same)
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 13:59 |
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Pyromancer posted:What happened with the satellite here? This is just what happens with very reflective surfaces.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2013 19:32 |
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fyi Hungary and Lesotho have been added to Street View, as well as a ton more coverage of Poland and Romania (both countries are now complete). They also updated the photos in a lot of other areas but I don't know where.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2013 02:16 |
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Tangentially related, Google is rolling out a fancy new maps UI. http://maps.google.com/help/maps/he...esktop/preview/ Ironically, the "request an invite" button wouldn't work in Chrome so i had to fire up Firefox to do it.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 20:49 |
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16.864882,11.953737 are the coordinates. Here on imgur is the story with pictures! http://imgur.com/gallery/2BpKA Was probably posted a few days ago and I didn't see it.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 23:43 |
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Goddamn, that is one remote-rear end memorial.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 23:49 |
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This place has been in the news lately as the waters that destroyed it have subsided. Lake Epecuén in Argentina was a resort town that was flooded under 10 meters of water from the salt lake it took it's name from. Everything is covered in a layer of crystalline salt, if you hover the little maps guy over it you can see a lot of pictures from both before and after the flood. The current population is 1. 
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| # ? May 17, 2013 18:22 |
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The Secret Door took me into this. Can you guess what it is? It's a Dalek sitting inside a clothes shop.
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| # ? May 18, 2013 14:07 |
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:There's a site that will take you do a random location like this. I didn't realize there were so many. What the gently caress. Second click through and I'm in randomly in a good restaurant that's about 5 minutes walk from my front door. What are the chances?
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| # ? May 18, 2013 14:14 |
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The secret door is pretty cool. Got lots of apparently cat babysitting places and then got this. I thought it was the inside of an old building at a museum or fair grounds what have you. Turns out I was wrong and it's actually a building in Antarctica. Pretty awesome and something I wouldn't have found on my own! http://goo.gl/maps/VtkhV
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| # ? May 18, 2013 15:11 |
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That's Scott's Hut, built by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1913 and largely untouched since then. The cold has preserved almost all of the contents, there are canned goods, copies of the London Illustrated newspaper, portraits of King Edward and his queen hanging on the walls, there's still even hundred-year-old strips of seal blubber hanging on drying racks. There's a lot of interesting info and pictures on the various Antarctic huts at the World Monument Fund page. quote:In Scott’s hut on Cape Evans, canned food sits on the shelves, the London Illustrated News lies carelessly tossed on a desk in one corner, and the darkroom of expedition photographer Herbert Pontings is intact with chemicals and plates. The explorers’ huts that dot the stark landscape of Antarctica provide a record of unique men in a unique place. Along with supplies, scientific equipment for measuring temperature and weather conditions was left abandoned in the cabins.
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| # ? May 18, 2013 17:04 |
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Some other Google Business Photos easter eggs: http://goo.gl/maps/hQcIs - three clerks during the shoot mess around in the background, this shot's got one employee cowering under an assault from a lightsaber and a fire extinguisher. http://goo.gl/maps/7q84c - the staff gets around the privacy restrictions by unleashing their inner furry. http://goo.gl/maps/r0HQc - some sort of death cult ritual may be being performed in this office.
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| # ? May 18, 2013 17:26 |
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The first place The Secret Door brought me to was a wrecked building in Rikuzentakata..  Edited to add content: It also brought me to this cool place. I'm not exactly sure what it is/was, though. Here's another oddity where there's no data for several zoom levels, but street view is available, and the colors are pretty trippy. Retter fucked around with this message at May 23, 2013 around 08:12 |
| # ? May 23, 2013 07:42 |
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| # ? May 25, 2013 21:46 |
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Retter posted:The first place The Secret Door brought me to was a wrecked building in Rikuzentakata.. That first one is the Atomic Bomb Dome.
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