Sat 9 Apr 2005
Using Google Maps we can find some satellite pictures of some pretty amazing things. Here are a few I and some friends have found. Please post in the comment section if you have any others!
Interesting Locations
Vegas
Belagio Fountain
Statue of Liberty
Ground Zero
Memphis Pyramid
Buried Warheads
Hollywood Sign
Nude Beach
Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch.
Twin Nuclear Reactors
U.S./Mexico Border crossing at San Ysidro, CA
49ers game in progress at 3Com Park
Yankee Stadium
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children – and the old duPont mansion and grounds on-site.
Turner Field (Home of the Braves)
Salem County, NJ – Hope Creek Nuclear Plant
Mall of America
Cedar Point
Wrigley Field
Busch Stadium
Veteran’s Stadium (Phillies Game in progress)
Police Academy driving pratice Range
Fort Benning Parachute Training ground
Alcatraz
St. Louis Arch
Empire State building
Trinity nuclear test site
Mt. St. Helens
Space needle
CN tower and Toronto Sky Dome
Easter Island, South Pacific
Playboy Mansion
Mount Rushmore
Old Faithful
SeaWorld
Diamond Head Hawaii
US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL (Space Camp)
LAX Airport
Disneyland
Disneyworld
Hoover Dam
Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant
Washington Monument, Washinton D.C.
Titan Missile Museum Note the black half-circle, that is the half-open silo. It is kept that way so soviets can look inside.
Uffington White Horse Jaurez mexico
Dave Rules. (Bunker Hill, IL)
…
Actually Luecke does.
Interesting Company Headquarters
Sprint Campus
Microsoft Campus
Apple Campus
Ford Test Track (huge)
Chrysler World HQ
GE Healthcare Headquarters
The Initech building from “Office Space” =)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and the Boneyard
Skunkworks Research Facility (underground home of the B2)
Area51
Scott AFB
Willow Grove Naval Air Base
Where the Space Shuttle Launches
Missle Launching Site
Cape Canaveral 2 shuttle launch sites & hangar.
Plane taking off at SFO
Aircraft Carrier in San Diego (CVN76 Ronald Regan?)
Mothballed ships in Suisun Bay (near San Francisco)
2 C-130s flying into Little Rock AFB
Saturn V Rocket laying on its side (Go north a bit)
Tyndall AFB
Semi Trailer Graveyard
BMW Test Track
Tanker loading/unloading in Duluth, MN
A couple of SR-71s
Iowa Class Battleship at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Mojave Airport
Edwareds AFB etched compass
Concorde at JFK Airport
Bridges & Waterways
Golden Gate Bridge
Open Swing Bridge
Sunshine skyway bridge
Golden Gate Bridge
Ambassador Bridge
Rainbow Bridge, Utah (words largest natural bridge)
Niagra Falls
Government Buildings
Whitehouse (photoshopped?)
Pentagon
Blurred Government Bldgs
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April 9th, 2005 at 11:47 am
It took me three hours searching to give up looking for Area 51 and lo and behold!
April 9th, 2005 at 1:43 pm
Απο ψηλά είναι όλα μια… ζωγÏαφιά
Την νÎα υπηÏεσία του Google, Maps μάλλον την ξÎÏετε.
Αν και δυστυχώς δεν καλÏπτει την Ελλάδα, παÏόλα αυτά υπάÏχουν μÎÏη
April 10th, 2005 at 3:40 am
Is it me or is The White House image not atually It? And the blurred government building Is?
April 10th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Yeah, the blurred building is the real White House; the other one is Photoshopped in, it says so next to the link.
April 11th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
Googe vs. Life
Why can’t life get better like Google always does?
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April 11th, 2005 at 9:12 pm
Tour the world from your monitor
With the power of Google, you can now see everything from above. With the power of people opposed with Google Maps, you can see all the sights that this continent has to offer from the air! Collection! Touristy! DAVE Fishes! Neverland!…
April 19th, 2005 at 3:25 pm
no its not the white house its the united states capital building across from reflecting pool…and yes i no that reflecting pool is across from lincoln memorial, this is a different reflecting pool…and as for the blurred images, as im sure a bunch of u no, im just clearing it up 4 every1 else, are just flaws in the satalite image, how many people have a camera that can do about 100,000 times zoom without gettin a little pixelization flaws everyonce and a while…
and as for the photo editing and the a few other image defect a few people might have noticed, i am pretty sure that google either cant, or doesnt want to get in trouble for, zooming in on government buildings and military instalations, u may have noticed, for example, that you cant zoom in past about a mile or so (my estimation im no expert at telling sat image hight…) in on area 51…im sure if u look around ull find a few instances of this…
and finally, and i dont mean any offence by this or not, but i hope that you were joking when u said u couldnt find area 51…only reason im mentioning it is cuz at first i thought u wernt…and again if u really couldnt im sorry…in more ways than one
April 24th, 2005 at 11:18 pm
Map This.
Google maps has been all over the news lately. It’s way cooler – not neccisarily practical – than MapQuest. And with the feature they added two weeks ago – get ready to waste your whole day. It’s aptly labeled ‘Satellite’. Cruise to anywhere you wa…
April 29th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
Fun with Google Maps, Part 6
More awesomeness from space.
May 25th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
Wow, what the heck is this? A friend sent this to me and we have no clue what it is. Without lame guesses, can someone give the factual reason this is here?? Toxic dumping?
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.398094,-117.619801&spn=0.065575,0.051756&t=k&hl=en
May 25th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
Wow, what the heck is this? A friend sent this to me and we have no clue what it is. Without lame guesses, can someone give the factual reason this is here?? Toxic dumping?
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.398094,-117.619801&spn=0.065575,0.051756&t=k&hl=en
July 5th, 2005 at 4:22 pm
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July 13th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
The above location is not where they launch the space shuttle from rather its where they lauch satellites from. The space shuttle is launched from either of the two locations below which is more north.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.613205,-80.616903&spn=0.036203,0.058545&t=k&hl=en
September 5th, 2005 at 5:18 am
Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites
Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites
Further to the usual maps and Google Earth projects, Google has now come up with Google Moon. It’s an extension of Google Earth and Maps using imagary from NASA of the locations of landing spots.
If you zoom right i…
September 14th, 2005 at 2:16 am
click the link below you will be amazed. Is this jesus’s face on the side of a mountain in Chile
leonard vaz, mumbai (INdia)
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-16.337013,-71.959763&spn=0.083411,0.112035&t=k&hl=en
September 28th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
click THIS link below. You will be amazed to see the top of Jesus’s head (Rio De Janeiro).
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rio+de+janeiro&ll=-22.952466,-43.211138&spn=0.005115,0.010131&t=k&hl=en
December 15th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
I noticed the link to Concorde at JFK above, but thought this one was better as there are two Concordes at Heathrow…
lat=51.4608274712, lon=-0.444908662194
January 11th, 2006 at 10:59 am
http://www.googlesightseeing.com is another interesting site. A bit more then what is presented here.
January 11th, 2006 at 11:01 am
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January 11th, 2006 at 11:42 am
I think the “Iowa Class BB in Philly” one is not correct. There’s an Iowa Class BB right across the river in Camden, NJ (the USS NJ) and at full zoom, it’s obviously larger than the one linked to above.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Philadelphia,PA&t=k&hl=en&ll=39.939093,-75.132408&spn=0.005331,0.011212&t=k
January 11th, 2006 at 11:43 am
The red in the picture just off the coast of california is called “Red Tide” it is bioluminescent micro organisms. They usually travel in groups. Kind of like how fish travel in a school.
January 11th, 2006 at 11:54 am
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January 11th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
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January 11th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
I found this in Baghdad. What the hell is it?!
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.398094,-117.619801&spn=0.065575,0.051756&t=k&hl=en
January 11th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
The “Iowa class battleship” at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard is actually the USS Des Moines, CA-134, a Des Moines heavy cruiser. Substantially smaller than an Iowa class BB.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/04134.htm
January 11th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
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January 11th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Detail isn’t very high, but these locations are as exact as possible from the records available.
Hiroshima, Ground Zero
Nagasaki Ground Zero
January 11th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
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January 11th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
The shuttle liftoff areas are wrong. They should be:
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=cocoa+beach+fl&t=k&ll=28.615418,-80.615015&spn=0.03594,0.058537&t=k
The way to tell is to follow the crawlerway from the launch sites back and you’ll see the Vehicle Assembly Building. It is huge.
These are the exact same launch pads used for Project Apollo.
January 11th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Oh, and the Saturn V is being restored which is why you can’t see it in the photo.
January 11th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
The aircraft carrier looks like it is CVN-74, not 76. 74 is the USS John C. Stennis, which is home-ported in San Diego.
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January 11th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Plane near Buena Vista School, Walnut Creek, California
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=walnut+creek,+ca&hl=en&t=k&ll=37.913207,-122.072858&spn=0.00419,0.010654&t=k
January 11th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
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January 11th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
As for the “Iowa Class Battleship” – they only missed the USS New Jersey by a few miles.
I got Battleships right here:
BB-59 USS Massachusetts – Fall River, MA
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ll=41.706586,-71.163104&spn=0.007257,0.013497&t=k
BB-60 USS Alabama – Mobile, AL
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.682654,-88.014779&spn=0.00836,0.016994&t=k
BB-61 USS Iowa, Suisan Bay, CA
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.06818,-122.098231&spn=0.007653,0.013497&t=h
BB-62 USS New Jersey – Camden, NJ
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.940969,-75.134425&spn=0.007453,0.016994&t=k
BB-64 USS Wisconsin – Norfolk, VA
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ll=36.84841,-76.295468&spn=0.007778,0.013497&t=k
BB-63 USS Missouri is at Pearl Harbor, but Google maps doesn’t have enough detail there to see it.
January 11th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
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January 11th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
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January 12th, 2006 at 4:22 am
A hot spot for all of you:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=budapest&btnG=Search&ll=47.502504,19.101362&spn=0.012061,0.042915&t=k
It’s the Budapest Sports Arena, but what *shape* has it LOL.
Well we are *macho*
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January 13th, 2006 at 9:06 am
I was looking the EASTER ISLAND images and noticed formations in the ocean, just off the coast…about 200 miles or so, but when I tried to ZOOM in, I was given a message that pretty much made it clear that I could not zoom in.
This is fascinating, because there are protruding megalithic looking configurations off the coast that may be remnants of a much older civilization.
Anyone else notice them???
January 13th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
NASA Ames Research Center Wind Tunnels, in California
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=CA+93524&ll=34.953947,-117.873430&spn=0.021157,0.033345&t=k&hl=en
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January 24th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Have a look at http://www.formarama.com/events.asp and click on ‘Meteor craters of the world’ Over 100 crater locations using google maps.
Also a list (with google maps) with every airport in the world….(over 12000!)
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Well, now the only carrier in that picture is CVN-68: USS Nimitz. Better update.
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April 26th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
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April 27th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
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June 13th, 2006 at 6:57 am
Fine picture of twin engine airliner in flight over the salt ponds on the western edge of San Francisco Bay, near Newark, CA:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=n37.517,+w122.086&ie=UTF8&ll=37.517002,-122.086&spn=0.002821,0.006051&t=k&om=1
(or else just enter “n37.517, w122.086″ in Maps). Plane is distorted flying past the satellite 280 miles above, but someone could probably identify the type (you can count the windows). Or perhaps the airline too, there’s a logo on the side.
The twin lines below the plane on the ground are two pipelines in the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct, bringing water to San Francisco from the Sierra Nevada mountains.
July 17th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
i can find sturn v rocket i neeed help plz give me a link i would relly like that
July 17th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
plz help
September 3rd, 2006 at 1:15 pm
You can find a lot of photography locations on Google Maps at http://www.outdoorphotoop.com.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Check out http://www.my-hotspot.nl with more than 800 google maps locations. Site is in Dutch and contains lots of Dutch sites but also lots of interesting places all over the rest of the world. Got also a tell-a-friend function, a function for submitting a new location and a function for free google maps for your own site.
December 12th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Moren than 800 google maps locations on http://www.my-hotspot.nl
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:06 pm
a few GoogleMap locations
http://www.gravoplex.com/FullWindowGoogleMaps.php
January 19th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
The White House is real. The blurred out spot is the U.S. Navel Observatory. It is an observatory as well as the home of the Vice President. There is an uncensored version on Yahoo maps
February 4th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
playboy…
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March 30th, 2007 at 7:57 am
In Patterson Park, Baltimore it looks like a body on the ground. It’s uper left side of the pond. Anyone agree??
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March 18th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Hi everyone!
I found a great site about Google Places here, http://www.satelliteplaces.com!
BestReg.
July 5th, 2008 at 11:17 am
new jersey fun places
You must put a lot of work into blogging this much!
September 24th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
I found a somewhat strange one just playing around with Google Earth. I screen capped this, but the location is just west of South Clinchfield, VA, in Russell County:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/DannyWho/Profile.gif
Kind of looks like a blonde woman’s profile, and under her face you can see a big black heart, and with some exaggerating, looks like she’s sitting in some very big and baggy jeans shorts. She is looking East and her jeans legs are pointing ESE, the right leg toward S. Clinchfield, and the left leg toward Clinchfield. I tried zooming up on this better, but cannot seem to get good resolution to determine the actual make-up of the apparent image.
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May 29th, 2009 at 7:10 am
I found this a while ago on google earth and took the time to relocate it on this to share… maybe someone has more info on what this is but I think its just a creative farmer… If you look at this on google earth (may be able to do it here too) but you can see historical images and there are different designs…
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=32.305234,-106.834933&spn=0.003632,0.004828&z=18