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Prettz posted:Why is there a fire department on that tiny little island? Because people live there, and it would be quicker and easier to respond to a fire with a station on the island rather than waiting for a truck to come from across the bridge.
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withak posted:Probably not really a strange thing, but with the SF/Oakland Bay Bridge closed this weekend while they make the final move of the freeway from the old to the new bridge, google is showing it as disconnected. A road closed near me to be transformed into an elevated viaduct and Google had updated its map within about 10 minutes. It's pretty amazing. Although they can't seem to decide what kind of roads go through town. They keep switching back and forth between highways, freeways and regular roads. By American standards they're mostly just regular roads, but apparently not technically according to some 'spergs on another forum I read.
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Prettz posted:Why is there a fire department on that tiny little island? Probably in case the island's radial engines overheat  What are those?
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Treasure Island is an abandoned Naval base. Those are Sage Hall and Cosson Hall, Bachelor Enlisted Quarters and Bachelor Officer Quarters (barracks for unmarried personnel) for the base.
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The Navy turned it into an environmental disaster and now the city is turning it into upscale housing. And when the big one hits the whole island is basically going to slump into the bay.
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Prettz posted:Why is there a fire department on that tiny little island? Training, mostly.
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That little island is the first place I ever saw porn. I was in boy scouts and our troop went to go stay overnight at the barracks I guess to learn what Navy life was like (this is back when it was an active base) and the sailors decided to educate us by giving us a bunch of porn magazines
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Prettz posted:Why is there a fire department on that tiny little island? It is not a department, it is a station. A station should usually have a central locations and major roads to at least two different directions. Both conditions are filled. Seems like a perfect spot. Get on the bridge and in 15 minutes you can be anywhere. This why fire stations can be in the bush, even near cities. They are close to major intersections and they are faster on average to everywhere instead of being fast to one place just by being in the middle of it. Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Vahakyla posted:Seems like a perfect spot. Get on the bridge and in 15 minutes you can be anywhere. You've clearly never been on that bridge. Treasure Island is rarely 15 minutes from anything unless its the middle of the night. Which is why it's a good idea to have a station on that island, people live there and it would take way too long for fire truck to come over the bridge from SF or Oakland There's also the fact that TI is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes (it's all landfill) and the last big earthquake made one span of the bridge unusable - if a big one came and did a lot of damage on TI and no trucks could come over the bridge due to collapsed sections or whatever, obviously its a lot better if there are already emergency personnel on the island! Earwicker fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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While taking a virtual trip in Syria I noticed these rectangular things https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.835881,38.576474&num=1&t=h&z=15 What are these?
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ymgve posted:While taking a virtual trip in Syria I noticed these rectangular things Smoking gun factories
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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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ymgve posted:While taking a virtual trip in Syria I noticed these rectangular things Probably a (currently dry) reservoir of some kind - there are a lot of these spread around the area.
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ymgve posted:While taking a virtual trip in Syria I noticed these rectangular things They're in the middle of the desert, along a road connected to the highway leading to Iraq. Could be disused army encampments or depots, maybe? Syria participated in the 1991 war against Iraq, I imagine there's quite a lot of landmarks from back then still visible. Could be anything else, though, but they don't look used. As a matter of fact, if you look up Masada you'll see 'rectangular things' around the mountain top fortress. These are what remains of the Roman legionary camps besieging Masada!  
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Megadyptes posted:Here's a big rear end queue on the Iraq-Syrian border, it goes for miles into Syria. Looks like you accidentally re-linked the rectangle in the Syrian desert. When you navigate to where you want to link to, hit the chainlink icon on the top left of the map instead of your browser URL.
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Hah, that totally slipped my mind. It's been ages since I hosed up linking to map locations like that.  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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Megadyptes posted:Hah, that totally slipped my mind. It's been ages since I hosed up linking to map locations like that. Looks like cues of trailer trucks coming from both directions, stopped before, at and between the two border stations. Presumably the the stations are under capacity (or the truck drivers don't have enough in their pockets to motivate the border guards). On the Iraqi side, you can also see the US military built border berm - an attempt to stop smuggling of weapons from Syria to Iraq. Ah how the times change! quote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR2006103101405.html Nenonen fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Megadyptes posted:Here's a big rear end queue on the Iraq-Syrian border, it goes for miles into Syria.
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3-4 miles of hot and frustrated truckers. Must be fun.
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I found ANOTHER Street View car: http://goo.gl/maps/fgKXY On the subject of the Iraqi border, what's with this abandoned airfield in the kink in the border between Iraq and Jordan? Zoom in a few steps and you can see it. It's the only thing in the area. http://goo.gl/maps/quxnj There's also what looks like a huge crater northeast of there: http://goo.gl/maps/Ihyc2
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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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Masa posted:On the subject of the Iraqi border, what's with this abandoned airfield in the kink in the border between Iraq and Jordan? Zoom in a few steps and you can see it. It's the only thing in the area. Considering Iraq's history with Israel during Saddam and after, and the complete destruction of the Iraqi airforce in past wars, it doesn't surprise that there is an Iraqi airbase at the closest point to Israel, which very likely was empty when the satellite image was taken. I don't know if they even have new fighter planes today, the original fighter stock was lost over the last 22 years and rebuilding the Iraqi army was an utter mess. quote:There's also what looks like a huge crater northeast of there: There's a huge volcanic area running near the Syria-Jordan border, presumably an outlier of that. It looks pretty menacing.
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Here's an insanely ugly building I randomly came across: http://qsview.com/2llwucz3rmlv1z1y4zunz2u Some very expensive but completely tasteless hotel I guess
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I'm not seeing how that's strange or that ugly. They were just going for a modernistic feel and that hotel doesn't even look that extraordinary compared to other fancy ones.
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Earwicker posted:Here's an insanely ugly building I randomly came across: So I clicked on your link, then started typing an address in the search bar, and as you type, you jump to different places all over the world. It's pretty fun. I like this new Google Maps.
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I lurj but don't do much posting on this thread- it got me peeking around Syria//The Middle East, though...and... http://goo.gl/maps/Xx5BY Found a weird little crater  With words, even. What on earth is it?EDIT: Look- more weird little things! http://goo.gl/maps/J6JaH Freakbox fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Sep 3, 2013 |
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Freakbox posted:I lurj but don't do much posting on this thread- it got me peeking around Syria//The Middle East, though...and... Umm Chamain depression Really just an ordinary geographic feature, nothing psyducky. Maybe it's an ancient volcano crater or lake bed.
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Earwicker posted:Here's an insanely ugly building I randomly came across:
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I saw this when I was visiting France three years ago, but this is the first time I've looked at it from Maps. In the first World War the British Army loaded up a mine with 24 tons of explosives and detonated it on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. http://goo.gl/maps/L8DU5 While I'm talking old war landmarks, when I went to the Canadian Vimy Ridge monument, the surrounding land is absolutely covered in crater marks from all the shells that were fired during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Portions of land are cordoned off due to the potential for unexploded ordinance. You can see the shell marks in the dark patches of grass outside the monument. It's the most noticeable here but if you look closely at the surrounding land you can see it. http://goo.gl/maps/Ta6e2
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Earwicker posted:Here's an insanely ugly building I randomly came across: That's the Kepinski Budapest. It's actually quite nice.
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FalseParadigm posted:A friend of mine that experiences immediate and unexplained "bad vibes" from prominent corner buildings and a slightly less crazy distaste of modern architecture thinks this is one of the shittiest places on earth. I like a fair amount of modern architecture but something about this particular design just looks awful to me, the big slab overhanding the door, the metal at the top of the columns, that big fan shaped metalwork thing up at the top of the building, the little round glass structure with the pointy top sticking out of the jewelry store in the front, the whole thing just adds up in a bad way Earwicker fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Sep 3, 2013 |
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https://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.165361,-85.135261&ll=41.164194,-85.133979&spn=0.004843,0.003852&num=1&t=h&z=18 I used to think this was just a weird thing where Google only updated like half of this area, but I just now realized they only bother to water the lawn that you could see from the road. It was really dry that year
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Senor Candle posted:https://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.165361,-85.135261&ll=41.164194,-85.133979&spn=0.004843,0.003852&num=1&t=h&z=18 Goddammit somehow just by seeing that housing development I knew it was going to be Indiana. Definitely looks dry. Must have been taken last summer.
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There's no Wikipedia layer anymore, that's strange and irritating.
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Retarded Pimp posted:There's no Wikipedia layer anymore, that's strange and irritating. Yeah, that is seriously busted. I'm really not having the new maps at all  Same on the old maps as well.
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Senor Candle posted:https://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.165361,-85.135261&ll=41.164194,-85.133979&spn=0.004843,0.003852&num=1&t=h&z=18 Nope, you were right the first time: it's two separate pictures taken at different times. If you look at the next street north, you can see they repaved the parking lot and there's half a car at the seam. Also, since it's the 45 airplane view instead of satellite view, you can rotate it 90 and see the grass is brown everywhere.
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Senor Candle posted:https://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.165361,-85.135261&ll=41.164194,-85.133979&spn=0.004843,0.003852&num=1&t=h&z=18 Holy gently caress, I live 1 mile from that shot.
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Carbolic Smokeball posted:
It's really too bad the monument isn't visible on the aerial view, it is completely awe inspiring and would be interesting to see from above.
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So strange things on google maps.... https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=53...ved=0CC8Q8gEwAA anyone want to take a guess as to what this is near blackpool in the UK, the mound is visible from the motorway... It has some security cameras stationed all round it. If you look to the left of the shape where the gate house is there seems to be an entrance into the hillside (tinfoil time) Fake Edit (I actually know what this is, just want to see if anyone else can guess) Admiral Heklar fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Sep 4, 2013 |
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My guess is that it (and the second one a little south and west) is a covered reservoir.
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