| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| jbottero | 2008-05-09 16:25:58 | Pyramid of Modern Mummification | http://www.summum.us/pyramid/construction/ |
| jbottero | 2008-05-09 16:25:41 | Pyramid of Modern Mummification | http://www.summum.us/pyramid/construction/ |
| jbottero | 2008-05-02 13:40:19 | People in circle | Doesn't for me. |
| jbottero | 2008-05-01 13:23:29 | Troop Formation at Command Post | No longer in Google Maps. |
| jbottero | 2008-04-30 10:51:30 | Small Plane On Approach to AF Academy | Yup, I though about that, and agree. I know what you mean by military plane... Doesn't matter anyway, I'm not really playing the hunt... |
| jbottero | 2008-04-29 23:20:37 | Professional Volleyball AVP Crocs Tour Chicago Open | Pro VOLLEYBALL. Yes, well. VH1 or MYV? |
| jbottero | 2008-04-27 19:54:43 | Wimpole Hall | Elsie Kipling, the daughter of Rudyard Kipling, purchased this house in a state of disrepair and renovated it. She is burried at near-by Saint Andrew's Church Cemetery. |
| jbottero | 2008-04-27 17:48:50 | Casinos in Biloxi | The casino in the picture is the Beau Rivage, the nicest of the Biloxi casinos both before and after Katrina. Amazingly, it sustained a lot less damage than all the others except Boomtown, which is... |
| jbottero | 2008-04-27 00:22:33 | The Sleepless in Seattle home | For Sale: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/360788_sleepless27.html |
| jbottero | 2008-04-23 12:46:54 | Palmyra Atoll | In the news:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352275,00.html |
| jbottero | 2008-04-20 11:40:16 | Big Pile of Something in East St. Louis | This is my happy happy joy joy 300th location... |
| jbottero | 2008-04-19 23:58:26 | Bikini Atoll | http://www.bikiniatoll.com/ |
| jbottero | 2008-04-18 15:38:01 | Palmyra Atoll | http://private-islands.blogspot.com/2007/08/roger-lextrait-king-of-palmyra-island.html |
| jbottero | 2008-04-17 20:01:29 | Olga Kogan's House | On the other hand there is a real estate too-doo involving this Olga Kogan in Israel: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/969661.html |
| jbottero | 2008-04-16 22:32:04 | Unknown Agriculture | Maybe. But it doesn't look like the buildings in the photo. A plantation of some sort, perhaps. |
| jbottero | 2008-04-13 02:10:07 | Dallas City Hall | Also seen in Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Lathe of Heaven".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081036/ |
| jbottero | 2008-04-10 10:25:45 | Three D-21B supersonic drones | Not there anymore. |
| jbottero | 2008-04-10 10:22:39 | Contraves Cinetheodolite Electro Optical Tracking System | Buy one... http://www.equipmatching.com/used_equipment/15/182/63163.php |
| jbottero | 2008-04-08 00:37:01 | Dugway Proving Ground | Lots of circular targets out in the desert around this place. |
| jbottero | 2008-04-05 18:23:17 | Boulder City VORTAC | Nice... |
| jbottero | 2008-04-04 21:13:05 | Strange Trees | It's actually still interesting. If you look at the BEV, you will notice that it's *NOT* a field of trees. Between each row of trees is paved and striped. So it's some type of parking lot lined with... |
| jbottero | 2008-04-03 13:44:37 | A380 fuselage components | Not in Google Maps, only Google Earth. |
| jbottero | 2008-04-03 13:43:19 | Ville de Bordeaux (Airbus A380 on board) | Not in Google Maps, only Google Earth. |
| jbottero | 2008-03-30 16:48:25 | John Wayne Gacy's house (former) | I don't think this Google image is the right house, it's *NOT* on Summerdale, it's on Courtland. |
| jbottero | 2008-03-26 21:35:59 | Trona Airport | Parts of the movie Bulletproof with Damon Wylans and Adam Sadler where filmed at the Trona Airport.
http://www.trona-ca.com/airport.htm |
| jbottero | 2008-03-25 00:44:41 | Sat Dish Farm at Trona | China Lake is nearby, they design and test bombs there. Years ago, my dad (who is a mathematician) was drafted during Viet Nam, and was stationed at China Lake, designing missiles and bombs. As an... |
| jbottero | 2008-03-16 00:02:46 | Charles Manson's Barker Ranch | This is the beginning of the ranch ares, and includes some buildings up the road as well. |
| jbottero | 2008-03-10 11:02:47 | Old Vic Theatre | I'm surprised this wasn't already listed! |
| jbottero | 2008-03-02 17:08:05 | EMD F40PH - 903 Santa Clara - Caltrain | http://www.caltrain.org/caltrain_commute_fleet.html |
| jbottero | 2008-03-01 18:37:38 | Bell/Boeing V-22 "Osprey" | You couldn't pay me enough to get on one of these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-22_Osprey#Controversy |
| jbottero | 2008-03-01 00:52:30 | Former Brookley Air Force Base | On 29 February 2008, the United States Air Force announced that a partnership between Northrop Grumman and EADS had won the contract to produce the new KC-45 aerial refueling tanker. The contract is... |
| jbottero | 2008-02-28 22:06:16 | Abandoned Bridge Trestle | Actually this is an abandoned bridge trestle in East St. Louis, Illinois.
East St. Louis is across the river (and state line) from St. Louis, and is an extremely economically depressed... |
| jbottero | 2008-02-26 01:28:01 | Fort Rock Cemetery | And some interesting stories here:
... |
| jbottero | 2008-02-22 17:03:59 | Goulburn Correctional Centre | Just behind the prison there looks to be a cometary. |
| jbottero | 2008-02-20 15:42:29 | 'Gold Base' - Church of Scientology media division | This is where they make the famouse "E-Meters"...
http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologygold.html |
| jbottero | 2008-02-20 12:15:31 | Huber Coal Breaker | Great pictures here:
http://www.opacity.us/site193_ashley_huber_breaker_blue_coal.htm |
| jbottero | 2008-02-19 21:05:17 | Ten Pound Island Light | http://www.uscg.mil/history/stations/airsta_tenpoundisland.html |
| jbottero | 2008-02-14 19:54:23 | Purple Haze Village | Indeed, there is ONE thing conspicuously absent, though I'm sure in Jamaica it's not a problem to get... |
| jbottero | 2008-02-13 12:33:41 | Site of $160m (£82m) Art Theft - 10 Feb, 2008 | The house looks all boarded up, and there are no autos in the lot. Must have been a *very* private collection. |
| jbottero | 2008-02-12 17:26:36 | Now you see it now you don't. Odd disappearing desert encampment. | That does not look like any military or contract site to me, it clearly someone living there in a bunch of sketchy trailers and other make-shift structures. |
| jbottero | 2008-02-12 17:18:10 | Predator drone at remote test strip | I geuss I relly don't understand the difference between this and:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/6612/
and... |
| jbottero | 2008-02-11 22:42:38 | Alien Spacecraft | Indeed. And worthless. |
| jbottero | 2008-02-11 22:37:34 | Open air concert | Is there grass growing on the roofs of those buildings? |
| jbottero | 2008-02-09 14:46:10 | Alien Spacecraft | The link points to a video of a monitor looking at the Google picture. |
| jbottero | 2008-02-03 16:57:18 | Club Diamond | Man, I'll be that spit of land is Bum - er, Transient Heaven. |
| jbottero | 2008-01-28 16:47:50 | Linda Hogan's Rental | Just a small transitional appartment... |
| jbottero | 2008-01-25 13:14:44 | Nicole Richie's apartment | Suzanne Pleshette also lived here. |
| jbottero | 2008-01-23 12:16:56 | 'International Elementary School' by Morphosis | Elementary school, eh? Looks more like a prison to me. Though these days, what's the difference? |
| jbottero | 2008-01-22 23:55:04 | SS Meteor | Is that a put-put golf course next to the ship? |
| jbottero | 2008-01-22 23:36:44 | Sinking Carferry | Yes... I was humor impaired on the 19th... |
| jbottero | 2008-01-22 20:02:24 | EC-130H 'Compass Call' Departing Williams Gateway Airport | Take a look at the rear fuselage. Not you're standard issue C-130. |
| jbottero | 2008-01-22 19:54:01 | Sporting Greens? | Upon looking at the Local Live, they seem to be reservoirs or storm runoff ponds. |
| jbottero | 2008-01-19 14:08:33 | Border Patrol Agents on patrol in Texas | I wonder if all those low flying Local Live planes at the border make the patrol guys nervous? |
| jbottero | 2008-01-19 00:30:48 | Sinking Carferry | Well, it's not really sinking... Picture stitching issue. |
| jbottero | 2008-01-16 14:51:30 | Bielefeld-Brackwede prison | Something strange going on with the GM image. Look at some of the buildings around the prison. It's almost as if it's two images with some transparency, some ghosting. |
| jbottero | 2008-01-15 20:22:55 | Entertainer Tour Buses for Sale | All those one-hit-wonder country stars selling cars for a living now... |
| jbottero | 2008-01-15 20:20:27 | Warren Grove Bombing Range | Same range that was closed for awhile after an F-16 strafed a local public school by mistake:
... |
| jbottero | 2008-01-15 20:19:20 | Strafing target - mosque or prison | This is the same range that was closed for a while after an F-16 strafed a nearby public school by mistake:
... |
| jbottero | 2008-01-15 20:17:02 | Strafing target - mosque or prison | http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/warren-grove-r.htm |
| jbottero | 2008-01-15 16:53:56 | Strafing target - mosque or prison | What facility are these at? GM doesn't show it as a military reservation of any kind, but clearly it is... |
| jbottero | 2008-01-11 20:05:26 | Simple test track | What *type* of test track? |
| jbottero | 2008-01-06 01:18:44 | Maxwell Air Force Base | Maxwell is home to Air University and several other military education programs such as Officer Training School and Senior NCO Academy. |
| jbottero | 2008-01-02 23:24:41 | Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument | Can't find a lot on this. Anyone? |
| jbottero | 2007-12-30 17:28:12 | Happy Camping in the Middle of Nowhere | I think it's a National Geographic aerial photo overlay. |
| jbottero | 2007-12-30 14:40:27 | Al Asad airfield | Camp Cupcake
Marines and soldiers at the outlying forward operating bases have another name for al-Asad -- "Camp Cupcake." It is a place where an oasis has served traders since the... |
| jbottero | 2007-12-25 19:18:51 | North Pole Speedway | Watch out for the black ice... |
| jbottero | 2007-12-24 14:13:18 | Peter Griffiths' house (former) | Isn't Peter Griffiths the fat guy on that animated TV show? Family Guy? |
| jbottero | 2007-12-22 15:35:13 | US Air Force C-17 Globemaster II at Hanoi Airport | Almost certainly a repat mission. My unit flies them once or twice a year (McChord). Interesting side factoid, they always take a purser who brings a suitcase of crisp $100 bills because landing... |
| jbottero | 2007-12-16 16:47:20 | Rashida Jones' house | It's astounding that a house like this costs upwards of a million... |
| jbottero | 2007-12-16 16:38:48 | Carrie Underwood's Home | I've noticed a lot of "stars" buy homes through trusts. I think it must have something to do with taxes. |
| jbottero | 2007-12-11 22:24:16 | Now you see it now you don't | Probably worth a lot more as luxury mansions like those that surround it. |
| jbottero | 2007-12-06 20:49:27 | MiG-21 'Fishbed' at Kissimmee Municipal | More from this location here:
http://www.grahametaylor.com/gallery/americasept02/america_3.htm |
| jbottero | 2007-12-04 21:33:45 | Copley's on Palm Canyon (former Cary Grant Estate) | Sad... |
| jbottero | 2007-12-04 01:27:14 | Tom's Restaurant | Known as "Monk's" Seinfeld. |
| jbottero | 2007-11-28 15:04:39 | Big Brother (US) House | I see what you're talking about, but I think that's something different. |
| jbottero | 2007-11-27 17:37:22 | Big Brother (US) House | Latest Local Live shows it's gone now. |
| jbottero | 2007-11-27 17:32:29 | Bill Nye's Crib | I assume he's got a lab of some kind in those two sheds out back... "Honestly, officers, I'm not cooking meth! I'm Bill Nye!" |
| jbottero | 2007-11-26 22:21:41 | Don Henley's Farm | A vegetable farm in Malibu, eh? Must be some exclusive and spendy veggies... |
| jbottero | 2007-11-25 00:47:12 | Funny Looking House | As it turns out, this is also a Robert Bruno house. Perhaps he lives in it.
... |
| jbottero | 2007-11-23 10:50:20 | Alcatraz - Military morgue | Here's what I found interesting:
"The highest number ever recorded was 302, and the lowest number 222. The average number of inmates during the 29 years of service was around 260... |
| jbottero | 2007-11-19 15:43:09 | Historic Iron Furnace Chimney | I'm not getting anything from the LL link. |
| jbottero | 2007-11-18 16:00:26 | Former Schwinn Bicycle Factory | Of course like most things these days, Schwinns are made in China where ther dip 'em in lead paint just for us Americans... |
| jbottero | 2007-11-17 18:22:08 | Greg Oden's Home | Oh, it's an area with Big Houses on Small Lots next to very busy roads. Boones Farry is like living next to I-5, it's a big road... If I had that money, I'd live a little further from the road... |
| jbottero | 2007-11-15 23:07:26 | Greg Oden's Home | well, it's a big house, but if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't want Boones Ferry Road in my back yard... |
| jbottero | 2007-11-11 12:54:19 | Water tower Roihuvuori | It looks like a flat disk. Where does this water tower hold its water? Is it an optical illusion, or is it under construction?
There seems to be some construction shacks on top, but no... |
| jbottero | 2007-11-07 16:51:33 | 2007-11-07 - Jokela High massacre | It will probably be taken down soon, but here's this nutcase's server folder containing such things as pictures of the gun and a manifesto.
... |
| jbottero | 2007-11-06 02:05:10 | Former Pease AFB Weapons Storage Area | Now an ANG bas:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/pease.htm |
| jbottero | 2007-10-26 10:51:41 | F-16 in agressor paint landing at Nellis | Looks to me like it's landing, not taking off. It's *on the runway* at the departure end. |
| jbottero | 2007-10-25 16:05:52 | New Base & Fighters | From GlobalSecurity.org:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/19fd.htm
19th... |
| jbottero | 2007-10-23 11:45:31 | Leonardo DiCaprio's House | Maybe until the hillside falls into the Pacific... |
| jbottero | 2007-10-22 17:29:31 | Malibu Castle Kashan | Burned to the ground.
http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,2508,00.html#26_423 |
| jbottero | 2007-10-18 21:31:40 | Plas Brondanw | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plas_Brondanw |
| jbottero | 2007-10-13 18:18:59 | Air Force Plant 3 | http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/afp-3.htm |
| jbottero | 2007-10-11 20:18:24 | McChord AFB Front Gate | Also, that drive-through next to the Visitor's Center is where they take random cars in and take 'em apart. No kidding. You give your permission by default when you drive on a Federal Facility. |
| jbottero | 2007-10-10 12:34:15 | Large yacht under construction | Looks more like it was under construction. Note the lack of equipment around it. |
| jbottero | 2007-10-04 18:10:58 | Bullseye ? | Awning over a sewage pond. Or maybe water reservior (note the watter tank). |
| jbottero | 2007-10-04 12:59:27 | Troll Airfield | Where is the map iamge actually from? Not Google Maps... |
| jbottero | 2007-10-03 14:47:15 | Cell Phone Tower in Disguise | Looks like a cheap used plastic office plant... The kind you find next to garbage dumpsters or at Goodwill... |
| jbottero | 2007-10-03 13:17:32 | Vera Coking's House | Here's an interesting web site on this. Seems there where two others in Vera's situation:
... |
| jbottero | 2007-09-30 16:52:57 | Antonov AN-74 at Rogachevo AB | Actually, it's probably an An-74, essentially the same as an AN-72, except modified for Arctic (extreme cold weather) use... |
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