|
I can imagine something bad like a dumb kid falling down the hole unless they put something in place better than an orange plastic fence
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2012 10:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 20:25 |
|
|
Lord Solitare posted:I can imagine something bad like a dumb kid falling down the hole unless they put something in place better than an orange plastic fence Yeah, from this photo:  ...it looks like it's 5 story deep.
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2012 11:21
|
|
|
Maybe even deeper than that. Don't structures need to have about 1/3 of their height underground for support?
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2012 11:25
|
|
|
Actually it's hard to tell. I don't know if they managed to go as deep as they needed and the usual structure in the ground often has a form of underground pilars and not actual space like here. While researching this I found that the city already held a little competition on what could be made with the hole: http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/alexander-lehnerer-and-team-win-1st.html In every submission it looks like the hole is about 5 story deep.
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2012 11:40
|
|
|
http://g.co/maps/cgdcc Running torch man cut out in the forest as an advertisement/landmark for the 1994 winter olympics. It's still partially kept. The view is better from below: 
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2012 13:27
|
|
|
http://g.co/maps/r9pk9 What are all these sandy looking patches? I'm sure its something totally normal, but I don't know what their purpose would be. This is along the 429 Toll Road southwest of Orlando, just west of Disney property. *obligatory "its where Disney buries it's dead" comment SweetMercifulCrap! fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Feb 6, 2012 |
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2012 06:31
|
|
|
sweetmercifulcrap posted:http://g.co/maps/r9pk9 It's a sand mine, according to this delightful legal document
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2012 07:20
|
|
|
It is pits.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2012 15:34
|
|
|
Can anyone figure out what this is in FL near Orlando? http://g.co/maps/gcuys Looks like a cross between a landing strip and a drag racetrack
|
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 04:14
|
|
|
L33t_Kefka posted:Can anyone figure out what this is in FL near Orlando? Could it be a radar range?
|
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 04:35
|
|
|
L33t_Kefka posted:Can anyone figure out what this is in FL near Orlando? Alpine Mustache posted:Could it be a radar range? If you look at the same area on Google Earth (with Google Earth Community turned on), a couple of people have noted that it seems to be a Radar Cross Section (RCS) test facility owned by Lockheed Martin.
|
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 04:53
|
|
|
What about the road to the right of the test facility? It seems to zig zag for no apparent reason. There is a faded line where the road just simply used to go straight. Edit: It's labelled Hell's Bay
|
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 18:32
|
|
|
Lord Solitare posted:Maybe even deeper than that. Don't structures need to have about 1/3 of their height underground for support? rcman50166 posted:What about the road to the right of the test facility? It seems to zig zag for no apparent reason. There is a faded line where the road just simply used to go straight.
|
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 18:45
|
|
|
I really hope this hasn't been posted before, but this is my favorite google maps easter egg thing http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=T...&mra=ls&t=m&z=8
|
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 18:46
|
|
|
There is a strange building I have passed many times going between home and work. I have wondered what the building is that needs such security. A simple search on the address did not turn up a match. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&l...2,343.2,,0,3.03 On top of this mystery, there is a strange flag that flies at the corner of the property now, one which I cannot identify and have never seen. I tried to search for this as well but cannot find a result. I tried to draw it but I havent been by in over a month now and dont remember it exactly. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 19:52
|
|
|
Erluk posted:I really hope this hasn't been posted before, but this is my favorite google maps easter egg thing Hah, thats a good one. How did you get this to come up? I just opened up Google maps, which defaults to my ZIP code, and tried putting The Shire in the from and Mordor in the to fields, but nothing... Edit: It appears the only way to get it to do so for me is to be at approximately in the same area as your map was with your "from: the shire to: mordor" in the search. Edit: OK, I'm a moron, there are actual places called Shire and Mordor Tattoo, I didn't realize only the walking notes was the easter egg, thought the whole thing was. My bad. Fermunky fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Feb 8, 2012 |
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 20:03
|
|
|
Here is a favorite local one. http://g.co/maps/exvr5 Near the Westfarms Mall in West Harford CT. Look at the interchange at I-84/Rt 9, and notice all the unused roadways and off-ramps to nowhere. Story is that I-291 was supposed to be a beltway around the city of Hartford, and they built the famous "Stacks" bridges in anticipation for it. Problem is the highway was killed off and the bridges sat completely unused until the 90s when they extended RT 9 to connect to I84, using a SOME of the structure. Most of it is still unused at this point, and is still in pretty good condition. Mighty Horse fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Feb 8, 2012 |
|
#
?
Feb 8, 2012 20:11
|
|
|
L33t_Kefka posted:Can anyone figure out what this is in FL near Orlando? Its cool, but this exact one has turned up way earlier in this thread. I tried to go out there, but the easy, direct, more accessible route you have to go through mormon-owned cattle land, and the less direct route you have to pay a lot of tolls, get lost in an industrial park, look super suspicious, lose your wallet as you shoot a compass bearing, and then give the gently caress up to get to it. But yeah its a place where Lockheed-Martin used to test the radar profiles of different aircraft shapes, if I remember right. You can go back and find it in the thread.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 03:43
|
|
|
e.pie posted:A few things I know of. Jesus. Zoom in on this place and check out how high the resolution is. You can scope this place out and see plane wreckage and strange buildings. And the viewing angle of it just seems...off.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 04:25
|
|
|
Codename BEPPO posted:There is a strange building I have passed many times going between home and work. I have wondered what the building is that needs such security. A simple search on the address did not turn up a match. I tried for a while to figure this out using property records and such. I know that the land is owned by the Baltimore Bureau of Engineering & City Council. I'm guessing it has something to do with the 'Fullerton Reservoir' that lies northwest of the building - a development project that's never quite been finished. No idea about the high security or mystery flag.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 04:59
|
|
|
Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Jesus. Zoom in on this place and check out how high the resolution is. You can scope this place out and see plane wreckage and strange buildings. I'm looking everywhere for wreckage and seeing nothing, where are you seeing it?
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 05:17
|
|
|
shortspecialbus posted:I'm looking everywhere for wreckage and seeing nothing, where are you seeing it? E Indian Dr ends (sort of) at SE 17th St and the plane is left of that.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 05:24
|
|
|
Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Jesus. Zoom in on this place and check out how high the resolution is. You can scope this place out and see plane wreckage and strange buildings. It's high res and at a funny angle because those photos were taken by a plane and not by a satellite. Bing has had the feature for a while but google is catching up pretty quickly it seems.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 05:35
|
|
|
Mighty Horse posted:Here is a favorite local one. The best part of I84 is it just ends. You're driving along on a highway and suddenly you're in the middle of a town on a regular street with stoplights.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 05:36
|
|
|
Wiggles Von Huggins posted:E Indian Dr ends (sort of) at SE 17th St and the plane is left of that. Well looky there, thanks!
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 05:45
|
|
|
Wiggles Von Huggins posted:And the viewing angle of it just seems...off. I'm going to blow your mind now - zoom in, click and hold the "north" letter on the navigation circle...then rotate that circle 90 degrees. You can see the area from another side. You can view every object from 4 different sides thanks to this.    
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2012 12:04
|
|
|
Palpek posted:I'm going to blow your mind now - zoom in, click and hold the "north" letter on the navigation circle...then rotate that circle 90 degrees. You can see the area from another side. You can view every object from 4 different sides thanks to this.  You just blew my mind grapes. How often can google maps do this?
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2012 00:16
|
|
|
Wiggles Von Huggins posted:
Every time you see that low angle of perspective basically. I haven't looked for that specifically but a few major cities in Germany and Spain I needed to explore supported this. Sometimes only 2 angles are available though.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2012 08:11
|
|
|
Codename BEPPO posted:There is a strange building I have passed many times going between home and work. I have wondered what the building is that needs such security. A simple search on the address did not turn up a match. That's a pumping station for the Fullerton water treatment complex, which supplies pipelines set up ~20 years ago to allow more development in that part of Baltimore County, which was growing fast then amid the success of the White Marsh project in the 1980s (here's an article from 1994 about some of the plans for the complex). The county Bureau of Engineering's Pumping and Treatment Division is based at the Fullerton complex too -- see the contact information here. It's critical public infrastructure, hence the heavy fencing; I'm not sure about the flag, but it wouldn't surprise me if it has something to do with that too. Like the rest of the local water supply system it is run jointly by the city and county (as reflected by the joint property ownership that Arturo Ui noted).
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2012 15:53
|
|
|
What is up with this region of Tunisia that seems to be criss-crossed with thousands of tire tracks? It's a really big area. Lots of races? Truck convoys? http://g.co/maps/6z7tw
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2012 22:03
|
|
|
Earwicker posted:What is up with this region of Tunisia that seems to be criss-crossed with thousands of tire tracks? It's a really big area. Lots of races? Truck convoys? It's salt flats, don't people go to salt flats to drive really fast for no reason? Also, that area in Tunisia is where they filmed Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle's moisture farm in Star Wars.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2012 22:39
|
|
|
Ah, sandcrawler tracks then. That's even better.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2012 22:44
|
|
|
 Found this guy while looking around Spain. Looks like the most badass playground ever.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2012 00:31
|
|
|
GlassEye-Boy posted:
Wow, no kidding. It's meant to be Gulliver from Gulliver's Travels. Some pics:   More at playgrounddesigns.blogspot.com/2009/10/parque-gulliver-valencia-spain-1990.html
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2012 02:31
|
|
|
Decided that I'd post this here as I was flying over it today - http://g.co/maps/xtq2y Then in poking around a bit found that it was The Yuma Proving Ground. Still pretty cool looking though. I want to drive on the big rear end mile-diameter circle track.
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2012 00:36
|
|
|
LordSeXXXenb3rg posted:Decided that I'd post this here as I was flying over it today - http://g.co/maps/xtq2y If you zoom out a little, you can see they built that in some seriously rugged terrain. Cool.
|
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 02:31
|
|
|
Not necessarily something to identify, but a strange thing I found dicking around in Google Maps thanks to this thread. The Pentagon has a food court: http://g.co/maps/t74kj I wonder if that CVS sells cheap beer like the CVSs around here do. Edit: I have no idea why the search query says target. So there's a strange thing to identify.
|
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 10:11
|
|
|
MillionDollarMurray posted:Not necessarily something to identify, but a strange thing I found dicking around in Google Maps thanks to this thread. Weird, this seems like the sort of thing they'd want to have blurred out and DEFINITELY not labelled. HEY HERE'S OUR NONVITAL PARTS. Also, it also seems vaguely risky to have it in your map search cache in this day and age...
|
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 14:45
|
|
|
Mister Roboto posted:Weird, this seems like the sort of thing they'd want to have blurred out and DEFINITELY not labelled. HEY HERE'S OUR NONVITAL PARTS. I was thinking about it and I'm guessing that food court is in the area open to the public who come for tours and whatnot, so anyone could potentially find out it's there with or without Google Maps. But you're right, it is strange it would be labelled in Google Maps. Also, pretty funny. If you got a hankering for a BK Stacker, don't worry, the Pentagon's got you covered! Edit: And as far as having that in my cache being risky, just being a member here probably has all of us on some sort of watch list, so game over already and all that. PWI fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Apr 22, 2012 |
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 14:53
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 20:25 |
|
|
scaevola posted:http://g.co/maps/cgdcc This reminds me of this. It's done by Russian lumberjacks for Lenin's 100th birthday, meaning "100 years of Lenin".
|
|
#
?
Apr 22, 2012 15:05
|
|
