NationStates Jolt Archive

okay, I am getting really addicted to this, goto maps.google.com and use the satelite view, go all over the world and post links...

Whats the best you can get? Can you find area 51? how about lisbon? or Paris? or the pentagon? or those pesky terrorist training camps.....


I find myself spending nights at a time search the world for something I don't know........ that made no sense...

Wait, I thought we were resricted to only the U.S.?

I've known the site for a few months now...

looks like fun...
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.310719,44.396439&spn=0.081539,0.126686&t=k&hl=en

Wait, I thought we were resricted to only the U.S.?

I've known the site for a few months now...

nope its the entire world now its pretty cool

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=moscow+russia&spn=0.081539,0.126686&t=k&hl=en

our capitol is better....

They have a fairly good coverage of Canada, albeit patchy.
There are 4 types of satellite photo resolutions: very high, high, medium and low.
My area is on low definition. :(
But most urban areas show a mix of very high-res and high-res, which is cool.
You can actually see cars and swimming pools in the backyards. One of my friends even used these photos to build some statistics on what's the % of people having swimming pools in the suburbs.

Google maps is a nice tool.

However, there's still one thing missing. When you're in map mode and you zoom , the municipal/city information is lost. Sometimes it can be very confusing, as you have street names but you don't know which city you're looking at.

They have a fairly good coverage of Canada, albeit patchy.
There are 4 types of satellite photo resolutions: very high, high, medium and low.
My area is on low definition. :(
But most urban areas show a mix of very high-res and high-res, which is cool.
You can actually see cars and swimming pools in the backyards. One of my friends even used these photos to build some statistics on what's the % of people having swimming pools in the suburbs.

Google maps is a nice tool.

However, there's still one thing missing. When you're in map mode and you zoom , the municipal/city information is lost. Sometimes it can be very confusing, as you have street names but you don't know which city you're looking at.

in the US we have that.... early early versions of G.M. you were able to zoom more but it is gone,

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=southampton,+uk&ll=50.926266,-1.446419&spn=0.044975,0.090637&t=k&hl=en i live in pretty much the centre of that screen. yay!

damn crap resolution though :(

Omg, I can spy on my ex-girlfreind! This is fun!

Omg, I can spy on my ex-girlfreind! This is fun!
And creepy!

I'm pretty close to the middle - it's a shame the picture was taken in the winter and with the tide out... it doesn't look very appealing in this photo!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=White+Rock,+BC&ll=49.015889,-122.781873&spn=0.007907,0.010353&t=k&hl=en

Here is where I live:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7811+Eads+Ave+La+Jolla,+CA+92037&t=k&hl=en

Two blocks from the Pacific ocean, lucky me! :cool:

This is the entire GVA - one of the nicest cities around. :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=49.250494,-123.111934&spn=1.012115,1.325226&z=7&t=k&hl=en

I think that I can see Godzilla...

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tokyo,+Japan&spn=0.110893,0.181618&t=k&hl=en

Hey! My house! And if you look close enough, I SEE MYSELF!!!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=524,+Lindley+Avenue,+Westmont,+Illinois&ll=41.785941,-87.981509&spn=0.003465,0.005676&t=k&hl=en

Here is where I live:

Two blocks from the Pacific ocean, lucky me! :cool:
Looks like some decent surf not far from you too eh!?

*whispers something about the West being the best*

Welcome to Pyongyang, North Korea.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pyongyan+North+Korea&ll=39.040947,125.730286&spn=0.160332,0.250282&t=k&hl=en

I find it amusing that the roof of the whitehouse has been photoshopped out:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Washington+D.C.&ll=38.896816,-77.036637&spn=0.006545,0.008680&t=k&hl=en

Michael Jackson's Neverland:
http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=34.746430,-120.087111&sll=34.652771,-120.104432&spn=0.008014,0.011727&sspn=0.022797,0.043228&t=k&hl=en

Hey look there I am! (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.198173,-119.761963&spn=2.176212,4.053955&hl=en)

I find it amusing that the roof of the whitehouse has been photoshopped out:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Washington+D.C.&ll=38.896816,-77.036637&spn=0.006545,0.008680&t=k&hl=en

Michael Jackson's Neverland:
http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=34.746430,-120.087111&sll=34.652771,-120.104432&spn=0.008014,0.011727&sspn=0.022797,0.043228&t=k&hl=en

and the capital building is pixelated too... what are they protecting!!!, I think they are hiding UFO's up there!

Would it be cool to create a list of all the cut-out, erased and censored spots in these maps?
We'd just post the coordinates from the Google maps URL.

Hey look there I am! (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.198173,-119.761963&spn=2.176212,4.053955&hl=en)

you live in the middle of the ocean huh? oh well

Kinda looks like when I was watching Minneapolis-St.Paul from the plane windows. But a different city.

I found my house, and my girlfriend's. boy do we live far apart!

One thing I've noticed from looking at American cities from obit is that you Yanks are obsessed with right angles. I've never seen a city so grid-iron in Europe, not since the Victorian age at least. Since then we've been obsessed with curving lines and cul-de-sacs. Make navigating a bitch.

Would it be cool to create a list of all the cut-out, erased and censored spots in these maps?
We'd just post the coordinates from the Google maps URL.

start searching post them here, then I will make a website dedicated to it, really I will just everyone go get me the links of censered or crazy looking sites, and I will make the site, oh yeah take a look at area 51, some crazy looking shit!

One thing I've noticed from looking at American cities from obit is that you Yanks are obsessed with right angles. I've never seen a city so grid-iron in Europe, not since the Victorian age at least. Since then we've been obsessed with curving lines and cul-de-sacs. Make navigating a bitch.

well you see we like to drive, its impossible to drive in a european city! its crazy, but go to a new england city and look at it ahh heres one

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=newport,+ri&ll=41.476951,-71.312857&spn=0.020556,0.031672&t=k&hl=en

I live there lol

start searching post them here, then I will make a website dedicated to it, really I will just everyone go get me the links of censered or crazy looking sites, and I will make the site, oh yeah take a look at area 51, some crazy looking shit!
http://edge.i-hacked.com/archives/319

Pentagon:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pentagon+Washington+DC&ll=38.871603,-77.054629&spn=0.011973,0.020642&t=k&hl=en

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pyongyan+North+Korea&ll=29.977688,31.131885&spn=0.005010,0.007821&t=k&hl=en

The Great Pyramids

you live in the middle of the ocean huh? oh well

No no, you're zooming in too close. Right there, you can see me, where it says "Santa Barbara." That's me! ;)

well you see we like to drive, its impossible to drive in a european city! its crazy, but go to a new england city and look at it ahh heres one

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=newport,+ri&ll=41.476951,-71.312857&spn=0.020556,0.031672&t=k&hl=en

I live there lol
Well, I was here visting a friend:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=newport,+ri&ll=41.476951,-71.312857&spn=0.020556,0.031672&t=k&hl=en

I never got the hang of an automatic car, but the amount of junctions you had to cross just to get along the street put fear into my heart.

http://edge.i-hacked.com/archives/319

Pentagon:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pentagon+Washington+DC&ll=38.871603,-77.054629&spn=0.011973,0.020642&t=k&hl=en
oh, I guess I have no oringinal ideas then *takes knife out and cuts across belly*

at least I die in an oringinal fashion, no one has comminted suicide like this before..

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Las+Vegas,NV&ll=37.259789,-115.803795&spn=0.196381,0.269165&t=k&hl=en

See that big white blob? That's Area 51.

Well, I was here visting a friend:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=newport,+ri&ll=41.476951,-71.312857&spn=0.020556,0.031672&t=k&hl=en

I never got the hang of an automatic car, but the amount of junctions you had to cross just to get along the street put fear into my heart.
who do you know in newport?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Las+Vegas,NV&ll=37.259789,-115.803795&spn=0.196381,0.269165&t=k&hl=en

See that big white blob? That's Area 51.
no its a lake... it just shines... and wrong state...

The Effiel Tower

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pyongyan+North+Korea&ll=48.858519,2.293053&spn=0.005010,0.007821&t=k&hl=en

My sister looked for our house on that once... apparently it's exactly at the point where two parts of the image overlap and is therefore invisible.

no its a lake... it just shines... and wrong state...

Hrm, it seems the URL doesn't update when you put in a new location. Anyway, that shouldn't have pointed to Newport, it should have pointed to Littleton, Colorado.

EDIT: And no, Area 51 is in Nevada...

The world feels so small now

Hrm, it seems the URL doesn't update when you put in a new location. Anyway, that shouldn't have pointed to Newport, it should have pointed to Littleton, Colorado.

oh I see, you supposed to hit the link to page button on the side there, of the page it is... me grammar goodness..

oh you were right about area 51... I am sorry...

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rome,+italy&ll=41.901566,12.454559&spn=0.005139,0.007918&t=k&hl=en

the popes house, man he has pimped it out....(vatican city)

from Bush's file

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tehran+iran&spn=0.164452,0.253372&t=k&hl=en

The Great Wall of China (I think)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pyongyan+North+Korea&ll=40.284119,114.631348&spn=1.282654,2.002258&t=k&hl=en

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.686299,1.186309&spn=0.005075,0.004753&t=k&hl=en

this is the real life taverham high.

i live about three miles to the east, and slightly south, in a large block of houses to the left of the largest wood in the area.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=moscow+russia&spn=0.081539,0.126686&t=k&hl=en

our capitol is better....No, ours is.


http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.310719,44.396439&spn=0.081539,0.126686&t=k&hl=en

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.686299,1.186309&spn=0.005075,0.004753&t=k&hl=en

this is the real life taverham high.

i live about three miles to the east, and slightly south, in a large block of houses to the left of the largest wood in the area.

good all I need now is some napalm and cheese!

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.848145,-102.183838&spn=0.082226,0.126686&t=k&hl=en


behold farmland!!

this looks really cool

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.316200,37.822495&spn=0.082226,0.126686&t=k&hl=en

Nothing to hide in Canada! Haha!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Parliament+Hill%3A,+House+of+Commons,+Ottawa,+Ontario,+K1A+0A6&ll=45.423371,-75.699459&spn=0.007907,0.010353&t=k&hl=en

Nothing to hide in Canada! Haha!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Parliament+Hill%3A,+House+of+Commons,+Ottawa,+Ontario,+K1A+0A6&ll=45.423371,-75.699459&spn=0.007907,0.010353&t=k&hl=en

wow no security, then again who wants to destroy canadian parliament? other than those crazy texans, they just want to blow everything up...

ME ! http://maps.google.com/maps


Pearl Harbor (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=524,+Lindley+Avenue,+Westmont,+Illinois&ll=41.785941,-87.981509&spn=0.003465,0.005676&t=k&hl=en)

Massive expressway intersection in LA (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=524,+Lindley+Avenue,+Westmont,+Illinois&ll=41.785941,-87.981509&spn=0.003465,0.005676&t=k&hl=en)

ME ! http://maps.google.com/maps


Pearl Harbor (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=524,+Lindley+Avenue,+Westmont,+Illinois&ll=41.785941,-87.981509&spn=0.003465,0.005676&t=k&hl=en)

Massive expressway intersection in LA (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=524,+Lindley+Avenue,+Westmont,+Illinois&ll=41.785941,-87.981509&spn=0.003465,0.005676&t=k&hl=en)

okay none of those are what they are, unless someone put pearl harbor in illinois all of the sudden..


heres the real thing

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=pearl+harbor,+hawaii&ll=21.362743,-157.969923&spn=0.041113,0.063343&t=k&hl=en

wow no security, then again who wants to destroy canadian parliament? other than those crazy texans, they just want to blow everything up...Naw, just that puny crap the rest of you build.
Gotta teach ya'll to build big, Texas style.

Naw, just that puny crap the rest of you build.
Gotta teach ya'll to build big, Texas style.
yes why build a 5 story building when thats all you need when you can build 500 story building for no reason at all!

yes why build a 5 story building when thats all you need when you can build 500 story building for no reason at all! :p
Texas- largest state capitol building
San Jacinto monument- copied by washinton, only theirs is smaller.

And how hard do you think we had to work to persuade so many people to live in Houston? It's the 4th largest city in the US. This is a place that's been described as L.A. with the climate of Calcutta. And is situated in a swamp one foot above sea level. I bet you can't do that!

I mean what kind of feat is that to convince 4 million Americans that they want to live in a crowded crime-ridden swamp that smells like an oil refinery?