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dark_3y3 posted:Didn't see anyone post this one, but welcome to Centralia, PA. Lots of streets, but almost nothing is left. If you aren't familiar with Centralia and the underground inferno that turned it into a ghost town, check this out http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm There's two strangely green and healthy-looking lawns in that grid of brown, dead land...what are those?
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shuriken posted:California City. 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.
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My uncle lives in California...next time I visit during college break I'll ask if we can drive by California city. It sounds interesting to see. Edit: Does Google maps give anyone sort of strange sensation sometimes? Just the feeling you're seeing the entire human race, wandering around the Earth, and there's these huge patches of just emptiness between our big cities. It's a bit disconcerting to me, especially when I see how big and vast the emptiness is in, say, the ocean. It's a big world... Mister Roboto fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Dec 14, 2010 |
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The reality just occurred to me that someone had to put all these images together. Which means Google actually has ALL the data of every country's military installations and "secure" private areas. Several people, in fact, probably have that data. I'm somewhat surprised Google was allowed to have all of this and display it all freely.
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SourceElement posted:http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=26.910844,21.938466&spn=0.870664,1.783905&z=10 Ah, I always wondered what Luke Skywalker's farm looked like in real life.
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Level1Wizard posted:Here are the "Band of Holes" near Pisco Valley, Peru. I wonder if this was an early attempt at some form of cross-mountain road? Barring that, I'd wager some sort of cultural/religious ceremonial purpose.
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rcman50166 posted:Has anyone ever noticed how friggin long runway 33 is at Edwards Air Force Base. Jesus. Interesting, there's a big "33" in the dirt to the right. I assume they use that for pilots to identify it from the air.
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timefly posted:Remote locations! Those are kind of depressing when you zoom out, because you can quickly see encroaching developed fields, I assume they could be for cattle or other grazing animals? The rainforest seems incredibly small. 
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Ron Burgundy posted:Could be a deterrent for people looking to do burnouts and poo poo in there. Probably this, and a combo to keep people from zooming through the empty parking lot slots late at night and such.
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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...
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Tangentially related, seen on reddit: http://i.imgur.com/UBvQ1.jpg Probably just a weird mannequin?
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MoonTuna posted:May not seem like much but zoom in. You have to be really bored though. That looks like something out of a jRPG, the hidden paradise where the hero is from/finds at the end.
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Wouldn't it suck if it really WAS a secret government military base that's worth a few trillion research dollars...and now they have to scrap the whole drat thing because some google mapspergers happened to find the one place they thought they could hide it?
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Does anyone remember an early Google Maps find that was basically someone arranging rocks to say gently caress NATHAN? It may be in this thread but I lack plat...
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Collateral Damage posted:In that vein, you also have the visible wreck of the Prinz Eugen here: http://goo.gl/maps/kKAQa The dragged a German ship all the way from the Atlantic over to some isolated island near Australia? drat. In fact there appears to be an entire island community just to the south of there. How interesting. Must be odd to live there.
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Cry Havoc posted:Saw this massive thing in the desert and was wondering what it was: That's quite a job commute.
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The portal to Hell being outside of New York seems appropriate.
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Michael Scott posted:That's incredible. It's the largest single man-made thing I've ever seen in my life. The building?
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Earwicker posted:Weird I don't remember that it sank on a Friday the 13th. I'm sure the media must have mentioned it because how could they not, but I had no idea until just now Does that superstition even exist in Italy?
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Ignoarints posted:I didn't know threads could get this old and be bumpable This is the best thread on SA at the moment.
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MrYenko posted:I wish I had heard the term "Pyongyang Ostrich Farm" when I registered my account, here... Admins, please rename me "Pyongyang Ostrich Farm."
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