The Google Earth/Maps cool picture thread. - Page 1 - The Pie & Piston Archive

Original Poster

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222 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Right then following on from the extremely cool picture of the Vulcan at East Midlands Airport... Thought I would start a thread to post cool pics from around the world found through Google Maps or Earth.

Post anything cool/fun/interesting/amazing.

I also have a challenge though.... Winner is the first person to find "The Ekranoplan"

I'm not very good but I'll start it with a poor "petrolhead" one.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

I was also trying to find that Military plane storage area in the desert in America but no luck.

Post away people.

PD9

2,040 posts

214 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Here you go -

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Edited by PD9 on Thursday 22 January 11:53

2,222 posts

215 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Two Ekranoplanes and some hovercraft here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&om=0&t...

And of course, Area 51:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&amp...

The Chernobyl Reactor No. 4?

http://maps.google.com/maps?om=1&ie=UTF8&t...

And lastly, the oh so creepy ghost town of Prypiat in the Ukraine

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&amp...

Edited by dwilkie on Thursday 22 January 11:58

Original Poster

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222 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

dwilkie said:

Two Ekranoplanes and some hovercraft here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&om=0&t...

Cool, we have a winner!

With regards to Area 51 - is it the real Area 51 or a decoy added to Google Maps.

Edited by Nobody You Know on Thursday 22 January 11:57

Edited by Nobody You Know on Thursday 22 January 11:58

Original Poster

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Thursday 22nd January 2009

PD9 said:

Here you go -

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Edited by PD9 on Thursday 22 January 11:53

Holy s

t!!!!!

2,222 posts

215 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

No that's the real one, it only recently got linked on Google Maps, you used to have to search for it the hard way. Easy if you findout the lat/long though smile

Original Poster

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222 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Alcatraz:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?g=alcatraz&hl=en...

Ayers Rock:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

The Top of Pikes Peak:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=pikes+pe...

Phugoid

521 posts

278 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

For a less mature audience, check out Cammo Grove, Edinburgh.

evenflow

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311 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

zimmerman

166 posts

224 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

PD9 said:

Here you go -

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Edited by PD9 on Thursday 22 January 11:53

it looks better like this (click on the 'birds-eye' button)

http://maps.live.com/#JndoZXJlMT0zMi4xNTc1OTQlMmMt...

edit: I'll have an F-14 please.

Edited by zimmerman on Thursday 22 January 12:54

Gunny Sergeant D

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269 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Brilliant thread - thanks.

Neil_H

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280 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Anyone know what this is? Large buildings in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by what looks like a now-levelled town.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

ETA: I reckon it's a prison....

Edited by Neil_H on Thursday 22 January 13:31

theboyfold

11,468 posts

255 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

zimmerman said:

PD9 said:

Here you go -

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Edited by PD9 on Thursday 22 January 11:53

it looks better like this (click on the 'birds-eye' button)

http://maps.live.com/#JndoZXJlMT0zMi4xNTc1OTQlMmMt...

edit: I'll have an F-14 please.

Edited by zimmerman on Thursday 22 January 12:54

Awesome! But why is there a gap in the photography?

DoubleYellow

1,288 posts

218 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

17 04' 01 .45" N
61 53' 22 .85" W

Check out this beast! Compare it to boats in the harbour.

Arese

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216 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

dwilkie said:

And lastly, the oh so creepy ghost town of Prypiat in the Ukraine

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&amp...

Anybody else see that and have an urge to go home and play Call Of Duty 4? paperbag

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Thursday 22nd January 2009

Nobody You Know said:

Alcatraz:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?g=alcatraz&hl=en...

The boats seem to be fitted with some kind of cloaking device redface

Edited by dwilkie on Thursday 22 January 13:29

Arese

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216 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Neil_H said:

Anyone know what this is? Large buildings in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by what looks like a now-levelled town.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=kramer+junctio...

wink

Edited by Arese on Thursday 22 January 13:30

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Thursday 22nd January 2009

Arese said:

dwilkie said:

And lastly, the oh so creepy ghost town of Prypiat in the Ukraine

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&amp...

Anybody else see that and have an urge to go home and play Call Of Duty 4? paperbag

That level was probably one of the best imho, and also so very eerie... A superb example of level design done right. Mind you, that goes for most of the rest of the game too I guess. The cargo ship was fantastic - I mean you're not DOING anything for the second half of that mission except running, yet still the tension levels are SO high!

Strangely Brown

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260 months

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Neil_H said:

Anyone know what this is? Large buildings in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by what looks like a now-levelled town.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Not Buildings... solar panels.

http://www.solel.com/products/pgeneration/ls2/kram...

Bee_Jay

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