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Oct 7, 2009

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Time Cowboy posted:

There are some strange landforms in Central Asia that I can't quite figure out. You can see them even at a pretty low zoom, they're that big:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=54.252389,82.836914&spn=8.104975,30.300293&t=h&z=6

I'm referring to those parallel strips of alternating high and low terrain. Perhaps the extremely weathered remains of some ancient continental collision belt, even older than the Appalachians? It might be clearer on a terrain map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=53.350551,81.013184&spn=4.138461,15.150146&t=p&z=7

If you zoom in, it's one of the weirdest looking terrains I've ever seen:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=52.772863,81.870117&spn=0.524237,1.893768&t=h&z=10

But it gets weirder. Zooming in on one of the lakes in the northwest corner of this weirdness, you find this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=54.85843,78.024902&spn=0.49878,1.893768&t=h&z=10

Still following that same southwest-northeast trend of the landform, What the hell is it?

Came here to post something in the exact same area.

http://goo.gl/maps/FXVb

That double field line thing stretches away on either side for loving miles. When there's an obstruction like a river or something it stops nice and neat and then continues on the other side. It makes twists and turns, you lose track of it from time to time but it always reappears somewhere else along a bit. Came across that years ago on NASA WorldWind back before Google Earth was big and it's puzzled me since.

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The high resolution imagery is mostly aerial photography.

Here's something I came across many years ago back in the NASA World Wind days
http://goo.gl/maps/fQt7l
That weird rear end line of trees or whatever in Russia that goes on for miles and miles, only breaking up for rivers and small towns. Sometimes it appears to end but then appears a few miles after some big river systems.
And another line thing to the north of it http://goo.gl/maps/EBs4V

While searching online I came across some more lines further away http://goo.gl/maps/H9Rjd

Pipelines or windbreaks or something? Oh here's some more around Volgograd http://goo.gl/maps/m0R56 former Stalingrad. Some people have suggested fortification lines but that seems unlikely.

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I saw one pass me by a few years ago but my blurry face and neckbeard never came up on street view. :sigh:

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Here's a big rear end queue on the Iraq-Syrian border, it goes for miles into Syria.

http://goo.gl/maps/np1GR

Google Earth says the imagery date is from 2005.

e; fixed link

cool new Metroid game fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Sep 2, 2013

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Hah, that totally slipped my mind. It's been ages since I hosed up linking to map locations like that. :downsgun:

Fixed link:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.835881,38.576474&ll=33.433957,38.907384&spn=0.007655,0.016512&num=1&t=h&z=17

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3-4 miles of hot and frustrated truckers. Must be fun.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruwayshid_Air_Base

Ruwayshid Air Base is a former Iraqi Air Force base in the Al-Anbar Governorate of Iraq. It was captured by Coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
Forward dispersal airfield, they would've moved up aircraft from further back in time of war or whatever.

cool new Metroid game fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Sep 2, 2013

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That weird line goes all the way down if you mess around with zoom levels, at least in Google Earth. And it's smack on the 180º meridian. Also the line messes up the 3d elevation poo poo in some places on Earth. So I guess it's just some fuckup at Google with stretching the images across the antimeridian.


http://goo.gl/maps/fVzQc
http://goo.gl/maps/n7i1x
Here's it continuing south of the Equator.

http://goo.gl/maps/DEUMO
And at the other end of the world.

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Oct 7, 2009

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Michael Scott posted:

Anyone else find some imagery that is obviously censored by governments? That stuff is fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_map_images_with_missing_or_unclear_data

The Dutch government seem pretty paranoid. A lot of the places listed have this weird huge-pixellated blob over the censored parts, looks like some funky camo. I remember seeing this one earlier in the year http://goo.gl/maps/jfgce pretty funny how you can just zoom into street view and look at the boring residential and light commercial buildings that the Dutch don't want you looking at from above. :tinfoil:

e; this one's weird http://goo.gl/maps/JIh20
Something on the western side of NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen that they don't want you to see. :tinfoil:

cool new Metroid game fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Sep 22, 2013

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Google pulled a ton of the street view along roads in Germany because of legal arguments with the government, it used to be a hell of a lot more covered.

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yeah most the poo poo they use is aerial photography, planes can have cameras mounted on to point directly down as well.

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yeah the new google maps is pretty loving poo poo. google are loving everything up

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sick burn

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few more a bit south of that spot as well



just some old rear end boats that got sunk there I guess.

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:spooky:

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'For six months the image has been studied by experts at the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club
lol

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that reminded me when the local newspaper ran a story about some idiot seeing a ghost on google maps. I googled it and the daily mail also ran the story lol
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2278635/Image-ghostly-man-spotted-Google-Earth-remains-village.html
it's the shadow of some radar mast or something that you can easily look at in the loving street view.

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