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Wallace the Great posted:If you type something as generic as "USA" as one of the terms in a Google Maps directions search, does it place the point at a place you have searched for maps before? I guess what I'm asking is, when you put "USA" into your directions search, where did it have as your starting location, as in, where in the U.S. exactly? It starts mine max zoomed out and centered on the USA Edit: Google considers Coffeyville, KS to be the exact center of the USA Low Percent Lunge fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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Ok, that's what I was wondering, because it seemed odd that a vacation company from California was advertising in the middle of nowhere, South East Kansas. Also odd because that's not 20 miles from where I grew up. Freaking me out, here...
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When I routed USA to Japan in started me around the Kansas/Oklahoma/Missouri border. I was wondering about the helicopter thing too. Thermals and pressure differentials caused by the artificial rapid elevation changes?
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JammyLammy posted:This always got on my nerves when the google-car was driving around. People were trying to organize "wacky" poo poo to do near the car to get their photo taken. I want to see candid people doing going about normal life, not internet nerds putting on costumes and acting like retards Most of the time, normal people are just giving faces towards the car.
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Related, though Google street view: http://9eyes.tumblr.com/
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Blimpkin posted:This bing bird's eye stuff is really neat. Especially that you can change the orientation of the view, and all that. I can't wait till they fly over Dubai again and we get a nice new view of the Burj Khalifa, it's going to look great. I always liked that image on google maps of Dubai dumping raw sewage into the desert sand myself. I think if I check back in another year or so it will just be a massive poo poo river running into the Gulf of Oman.
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I once found a graveyard of giant dead cargo ships north of Chernobyl. Wish I knew how to get back to it.
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Algol Star posted:
Take Highway 1 northwest from Seoul, to Gunna-myon, where the highway ends, according to the map. The road, although unmarked, continues Northwest, until it reaches Panmunjom. Once at Panmunjom, turn Northeast and try to run between the 7 small buildings that are bisected by a raised crosswalk. Watch out for the ROK JSA soldiers that will be stationed at the corners of those buildings. Praise Dear Leader for your safe journey. Click here for the full 1920x886 image.
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Magnificent Quiver posted:I once found a graveyard of giant dead cargo ships north of Chernobyl. Wish I knew how to get back to it. When you say Chernobyl I assume you mean the nuclear power plant. It's knowhere near the ocean.
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Magnificent Quiver posted:I once found a graveyard of giant dead cargo ships north of Chernobyl. Wish I knew how to get back to it. I found a small graveyard of ships just south of Chernobyl but that's about it. I'm assuming that these were some irradiated ships they used for transport to/from the plant.
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Theres a large ship graveyard near Murmansk, Russia.
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Wallace the Great posted:If you type something as generic as "USA" as one of the terms in a Google Maps directions search, does it place the point at a place you have searched for maps before? I guess what I'm asking is, when you put "USA" into your directions search, where did it have as your starting location, as in, where in the U.S. exactly? Wouldn't it have been quicker to actually try it than type all that out?
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KaosFactor posted:When I routed USA to Japan in started me around the Kansas/Oklahoma/Missouri border. From what I read, that was the jist of it. The temperature difference cause a downward suction of air into the hole (I think, feel free to correct me) which if a pilot isn't fast enough in compensating, will cause the copter to crash. Apparently this can happen with any large enough hole, not just the mine. For content: have a giant pink bunny: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=44.244273,7.769737&spn=0.001003,0.002548&z=19 And a Coca-Cola logo: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=-18.529244,-70.249852&spn=0.001328,0.002548&z=19 And a blood red lake in Iraq: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&q=Iraq&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Iraq&ll=33.395673,44.488481&spn=0.004676,0.010192&z=17
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It looks to me like an airplane on the roof of a building in Manhattan. http://tinyurl.com/2fxyaz5
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Lowkin posted:When you say Chernobyl I assume you mean the nuclear power plant. It's knowhere near the ocean. Cargo ships are also used on large rivers, like large rivers people use to cool nuclear power plants. Edit: This might be it. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&ll=51.283736,30.212467&spn=0.003872,0.009398&t=h&z=17 Curly Shuffle fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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Trubadurix posted:It looks weird, but the explanation is quite simple and boring. The two guys in the diving suits are friends of the google-car driver, so they knew when the car was going to pass...and staged this. Dacke posted:I found a small graveyard of ships just south of Chernobyl but that's about it. I'm assuming that these were some irradiated ships they used for transport to/from the plant.
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GWBBQ posted:I'm pretty sure that's the town that organized fun and unusual stuff all over for the Google cars to spot.
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I totally read the title as "Identify strange things in Google Mars"
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I'd like to know what this thing is. Its a big concrete circle in the middle of a Nature Preserve. Baker's Lake Nature Preserve (42.141817,-88.117471)just south of Barrington Illinois.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&i...008256&t=h&z=18 The "Cactus Dome" contains radioactive soil and debris mixed with cement. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&i...066047&t=h&z=15 Here you can see part of the crater from the first hydrogen bomb detonation "Ivy Mike." It destroyed a small island.
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This is exactly the thread I needed. When I was flying into San Francisco this summer, I spotted these brightly colored fields. What the hell am I looking at? Algae farms?
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The Taped Crusader posted:This is exactly the thread I needed. When I was flying into San Francisco this summer, I spotted these brightly colored fields. What the hell am I looking at? Algae farms? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_pond
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JammyLammy posted:Ok, I'm going to be the retard and ask how are helicopters getting sucked in? I'm not an aviator or anything, so take this with a brick of salt. But I'd guess that a hole this size causes a pretty significant downwash when air passes over it. So a strong wind might cause a pretty big turbulence around the edge which might be strong enough to force a helicopter down. Alternatively, it might have something to do with the downwash from the helicopter itself, and the hole causes the air-stream to travel back up the sides of the hole when it hits the ground and then somehow it folds back down upon the helicopter. Just guessing at this point, hopefully there's somebody here with a firmer grip on aerodynamics. Perestroika fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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Perestroika posted:I'm not an aviator or anything, so take this with a brick of salt.
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Yo this thread is cool and all, but I just want to point out that Google Maps has built-in URL shortening now. You just have to enable it in the Labs section, top right labelled "New!". The "link" option then generates short URLs automatically. Works for Street View as well.
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Godholio posted:Wouldn't it have been quicker to actually try it than type all that out? Sure. I had tried it, and it put me at Coffeyville, KS, but then again I often start searches from that general area, so I thought that maybe Google remembered that was my typical "start point." I was wanting outside verification that, indeed, Southeast Kansas is the center of the universe (USA). Thanks for humoring me.
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clarkwgriswold posted:http://9eyes.tumblr.com/ Awful lot of prostitutes on Street View.
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DocBubonic posted:I'd like to know what this thing is. http://www.yelp.com/biz/bakers-lake-nature-preserve-barrington Perestroika posted:I'm not an aviator or anything, so take this with a brick of salt. http://www.abazias.com/diamondblog/diamond-industry/a-brief-history-of-the-worlds-largest-open-pit-diamond-mine It's way too big for rotor wash to be the problem, my best educated guess is that it's similar to a lee wave
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JammyLammy posted:Ok, I'm going to be the retard and ask how are helicopters getting sucked in? As far as I can understand it, the hole is big enough to cause hot air to leak from the crust in a steady column. The hot air having a different density than the cold air around it causes the helicopter to drop altitude if not accounted for.
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GWBBQ posted:I found a Yelp review that mentions a "historic round barn," I would guess that's the foundation. I can't find anything else on it because it's a bird habitat for species including the barn owl, making searches pretty much useless. From what I remember of ground school and aerodynamics classes, any air flowing across a sharp boundary like that would attempt to follow the contour of the land; as soon as the more or less laminar low-speed flow hits that edge, the flow will attempt to fill the vacuum left by the ground no longer being there by forming a turbulent flow immediately below it, pulling the flow down into the hole somewhat. It's the same principle that allows you to draft off tractor-trailers on the highway, only the air is moving instead of the restrictive surface. [edit]I sort of take back what I said. A large enough diameter hole would have that problem there, but these narrow ultra-deep holes apparently do actually have a change in air density associated with them: http://lerevdr.wordpress.com/7-amazing-holes-the-helicopter-experts/ [double edit] You know, I read more of that blog post there and boy howdy there's a lot of internet tough guy to wade through. nurrwick fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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nildrohain454 posted:And a blood red lake in Iraq: edit: Although the surrounding water is blue-green, so that's not true. Must be some kind of iron sediment or something.
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dy. posted:That lake probably isn't actually red. The capture device probably just had an IR band; the image is not true color. I work with orthoimagery and I see this a lot. Seems to me it's another salt pond, there are a couple to the south of the red lake.
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One awesome thing I found that I forgot to mention about that Russian diamond mine is that the Soviet engineers tackled the problem of permafrost by thawing the land with jet engines so they could mine it
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A Furious Foetus posted:Awful lot of prostitutes on Street View. Hookers, Car crashes and people giving the finger view. Hahahah. There's one shot that's in the town I live in. Right by the bus station I use to get out of here and to work. There were two things on Google Earth I remember being shown once but I can't find then. One was a graveyard of Russian aircraft which contained a bunch of crazy stuff. I found the Russian space shuttle, but this one was way bigger. Second was the Scientology bunker were 's writings are kept on ruby quartz tablets or something else and has giant alien "stop here" signs on top.
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I hear there is some bunker complex somewhere where all the world's seeds are kept in case of some catastrophe? We gotta find it on google maps. Any ideas as to what that black mark is in Greenland? According to the distance legend it is something like 20 miles long? So it's definitely not an airfield, or if it is it's an airfield and a base of some sort. I guess it could also be some very large radar array. I honestly think it is just a google maps typo. Just why the hell would they actually want to hide something with a big black mark when they could just hide it with a white mark and nobody would ever be able to tell the difference? Greenland in Bing is just one big fuckoff white spot. In my experience the proverbial "they" don't really bother hiding things (except for that submarine propeller) that are just shaped like buildings because the average layman couldn't guess what they were if they tried. Rival governments sure as poo poo don't use google maps for their spying, if there was something there which was a national security issue their own birds would have snapped a bunch of pictures of it already.
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The black mark is just some weird artefact of the satellite photo compositing. If you look about 120 miles north of the black mark, you can see an apparent light brown-golden area that's larger but about the same orientation as the black thing, and if you zoom in it's obviously just some weird exposure thing going on at the edge of a photo.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I hear there is some bunker complex somewhere where all the world's seeds are kept in case of some catastrophe? We gotta find it on google maps. The Svalbard one is somewhere in here: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=78.237748,15.461884&spn=0.05123,0.254745&t=h&z=12 (edit: Probably here.) Another is here somewhere: http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=51.067638,-0.088209&sspn=0.025,0.025&ie=UTF8&ll=51.067574,-0.088749&spn=0.00987,0.015922&z=16 quote:Any ideas as to what that black mark is in Greenland? According to the distance legend it is something like 20 miles long? So it's definitely not an airfield, or if it is it's an airfield and a base of some sort. I guess it could also be some very large radar array. It's missing satellite data. There is nothing hidden there but snow and ice. Getting clear satellite images that far north is kind of hard to do. withak fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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A Furious Foetus posted:Awful lot of prostitutes on Street View. I love the one of the random kid sitting on a side walk by itself.
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I've always wondered why Lake Baikal has a superhighway disappearing into its depths...
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That superhighway is about 0.9 miles wide.
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