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Blind Rasputin posted:That Bing maps effect of almost a stereoscopic projection of the image.. how do they do that? Is it available for all things or just a select few places, cuzz its really cool. It's because they make their continuous map images by stitching together a bunch of small single images taken from from a moving platform along with some corrections and warping to get rid of geometric distortions away from the center of each frame. This works fine when you have pictures of something relatively flat compared to how high up the camera is but with tall buildings you can sometimes end up seeing all four sides of a building in one image.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2010 06:49 |
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treestump posted:http://maps.google.co.nz/?ie=UTF8&ll=-34.155852,172.151556&spn=0.055329,0.132093&t=h&z=14 Bam!
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2010 18:51 |
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http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Oakland,+Alameda,+California&ll=38.004017,-122.01019&spn=0.006188,0.012048&t=h&z=17 Train bunkers.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 02:01 |
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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 |
# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 19:51 |
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That superhighway is about 0.9 miles wide.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 20:22 |
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The closeups look recently-glaciated to me. The larger scale could just be tilted layers exposed at the surface. Some types of rock may not be as suitable for agriculture so they stay forested over.
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 16:38 |
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Looks like an unused right-of-way. Maybe originally intended for a pipeline or power line or railway or something. Though it's about 3/4 of a mile wide. That's odd. Bizarre Siberian property situation maybe?
withak fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Dec 4, 2010 |
# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 22:52 |
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Treasure Island in SF also has a bunch of swastika-shaped barracks buildings.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2010 06:33 |
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The handful of people who refuse to leave.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2010 23:45 |
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It does have a go-cart track though.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2010 20:35 |
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Mister Roboto posted:That is an interesting one, but I suppose if the city proper expected a lot of rapid growth, it makes sense to expand the road infrastructure first. It's been like that for something like 50 years; I'm sure the tens of thousands of people dying to live in the desert will show up any day now.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2010 20:56 |
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They probably don't want to live in the middle of the desert either.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2010 00:48 |
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http://goo.gl/maps/Pnzv Here is what I thought was a go-cart track, but upon closer inspection it looks bigger than that. Maybe some kind of off-roading thing.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2010 01:59 |
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I remember bldgblog doing a photo essay or something on California City a while back.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2010 02:12 |
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Artifacts, probably to because of sparkle/glare from the water.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2010 20:36 |
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The Salton Sea has only been around for a hundred years. It was a very low-lying desert valley until a flood and a levee breach on the Colorado River filled it with water.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2010 04:50 |
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Someone already posted that it is a radar testing facility.
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2010 02:08 |
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Google for pictures of what those kinds of tests look like then zoom in using bing maps. edit: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=nqvjh287963n&lvl=18.693864583017124&dir=358.01144257196455&sty=b
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2010 02:23 |
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Schnozzberry posted:Any info on these? I searched for the nearest "large" cities of each on google maps and couldn't find out why there are so many unused roads. Everyone assumed that if you built roads and houses then people would turn up and buy them for very high prices, then it turned out that the plan only worked if those people were given loans that they couldn't afford. Also it is in the middle of the desert.
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2010 03:18 |
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Skyworks posted:I know that one, I am looking for the local command sites that give the order and the guys in the bunkers turn the keys. I am pretty sure I have one now. Stop distracting me. It looks completely innocuous, not sure. Will try to confirm. Set up your modem to dial through all possible phone numbers until you find it.
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2010 17:58 |
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The SARS Volta posted:Why the hell is Lake Anahuac (east of Houston) gray on higher levels of Google Maps: The lower-detail images are often false-color. The do some extra processing including the infrared range that helps show more contrast between water, vegetation, and concrete (this is why water is often dark blue when zoomed out but then turns a more realistic grey or green as you zoom in to more detailed images). That looks like a pretty shallow, silty lake so it may be warmer than all the other visible water, making it look more like its real color than like processed dark blue. withak fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Dec 16, 2010 |
# ¿ Dec 16, 2010 19:54 |
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Unit1879b posted:Anyone know what this strange pattern in the ocean is just north of antarctica? Bathymetric survey data. Most of the terrain they show for the ocean is based on very approximate data (possibly assumed); any time you see something unusual like that it is because there are actual detailed measurements at those spots that disagree with the very coarse data everywhere else.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2010 03:53 |
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It's a short dead-end street.
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# ¿ Dec 27, 2010 05:25 |
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The water feature data almost always comes from a different source than the terrain data and the accuracy/precision probably varies.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2011 19:14 |
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Retarded Pimp posted:What's this squarish target thing by the American Canyon Public Works? Bombing range.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2011 03:42 |
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Mutant Enemy posted:I know this is from forever ago, but is this what you saw? Imaging artifact. Maybe glare off of a reflective roof?
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2011 06:03 |
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It's a false-color image where they use part of the infra-red band to make cold stuff (like water) come up very dark in color. The brown/red is warmer, probably bare earth or very shallow water.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2011 21:37 |
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Spatule posted:I always thought it was simply NIR in those aerial pictures, so not actually thermal IR. It could be, alls I know is they do something that makes water look black or dark blue no matter what color of green or brown it really is.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2011 23:24 |
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It is a private man-made wetlands area belonging to some super-rich hedge fund rear end in a top hat.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2011 01:25 |
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Definitely a fish farm.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2011 01:07 |
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Drunk Tomato posted:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...026479&t=h&z=16 That looks 100% unlike a glacier.
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# ¿ May 10, 2011 22:04 |
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GWBBQ posted:It's interesting to see the IR layer in addition to the colors in these, I didn't know there was an IR component to satellite imaging. Whenever you see the more zoomed-out satellite images where water is very dark blue it is because they are using part of the non-visible spectrum. It can be used to make it easy to tell the difference between pavement/rock/earth, vegetation, and water with some very trippy colors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False-color
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# ¿ May 13, 2011 14:36 |
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Could be a solution feature causing a low spot.
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2011 04:03 |
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Bathymetric survey. Basically an area of detailed data surrounded by data that is not very detailed. For example the detailed area may have elevations to +/- 1m while the less-detailed area may be +/- 10m, creating a vertical jump at the boundary. There lots of places like this in google's ocean bottom topography data.
withak fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Aug 17, 2011 |
# ¿ Aug 17, 2011 16:52 |
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http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Disastro_Vajont.jpg Here's a picture shortly after the flood showing the landslide that pushed all the water out over the dam. This is why you do your geology homework before you build a dam.
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2011 06:04 |
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They are precast u-ditch sections, probably left behind after some drainage improvement work that went on somewhere nearby in the park. That open space was probably the staging area for the work.
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2011 23:34 |
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It's probably something underground. To the northeast and southwest there are some patterns in the grass that seem to extend in the same direction as the islands in the parking lot.
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2011 18:32 |
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Wagonburner posted:
They may actually not be allowed to cover it with more than a minimum distance (probably one road-width) of asphalt or concrete. Even if they aren't required to, it is definitely cheaper to not have to rebuild a parking lot when you need access to your underground pipeline. withak fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Aug 28, 2011 |
# ¿ Aug 28, 2011 19:17 |
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Google says the area is known for thermal pools, so they are probably related to that. There are smaller circular features all over nearby.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2011 19:26 |
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Nenonen posted:Judging by the craters around them, I'd say they're really old air force bombing practise targets. It could also be an artillery practise area, but there's little benefit from having a large feature that can only be viewed from the air unless the forward observers were on an airplane... I vote for this. edit: This is 5-10 miles away. edit again: quote:Conveniently located some 12 to 14 kilometers away was a bombing range near Nagyivan, called 'Bombodrom Nagyivan' or 'Poligon Nagyivan' in Russian. withak fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Sep 5, 2011 |
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