| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| romulusnr | 2008-06-18 23:33:38 | Former AN/FLR-9 site HFDF in Italy | CENSORED in Live Local! Compare the base area in different engines |
| romulusnr | 2008-06-18 23:22:31 | AN/FLR-9, Ramasun Station, Thailand | Also thanks to oliverd with helping find the proper location. |
| romulusnr | 2007-12-03 12:33:46 | Train Ferry being Loaded | This ferry route is mainland America's connection to the Alaska Railroad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Railroad |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-26 13:04:58 | Strange Circles | http://lebanontownship.net/Summer07Newsletter.pdf
The pipeline ran from Rixford PA to Bayonne NJ. There is a forthcoming... |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-26 13:00:11 | Strange Circles | Industrial Directory of New Jersey, 1918:
... |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-26 12:48:33 | Strange Circles | TopoZone calls the spot a "tank farm" and shows dots where the circles are.
... |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-26 12:20:03 | Strange Circles | cLocations.com has this spot labeled as "Tidewater Oil Pump Station"
... |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-26 12:17:04 | Strange Circles | The circles are orderly -- either in a triangular pattern or aligned along the river. Looks like there were once storage tanks (or silos?) there. Vegetation clustered around the edges of the tanks... |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-26 11:56:19 | Shwedagon Paya | Add In The News. |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-24 11:10:57 | VIP speaking at South Carolina State House | Er, that is, this: http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/taxonomy/term/4663 |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-24 11:10:43 | VIP speaking at South Carolina State House | Could it have been this? |
| romulusnr | 2007-09-24 10:47:27 | Seattle Ferry | Is this the Bremerton or Bainbridge ferry? |
| romulusnr | 2007-08-02 10:37:57 | 2007-08-01 - Bridge Collapse | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:I-35W_bridge_collapse_TLR1.jpg |
| romulusnr | 2007-08-01 11:43:18 | 'News 3' / 'SRP' in field | In current LL BEV the field reads "Arizona's Family", another reference to KTVK. |
| romulusnr | 2007-08-01 11:39:37 | 'News 3' / 'SRP' in field | That "News 3" logo was used by KTVK between 2003 and 2005. |
| romulusnr | 2007-08-01 11:38:45 | Oprah Maze | The current LL BEV thumb is of Jay Leno and says "Arizona |
| romulusnr | 2007-07-30 16:14:01 | Midway Drive-In | Actually it's gone now. |
| romulusnr | 2007-02-06 01:20:21 | Granary Burying Ground | Tourist fiction for the Granary ground suggests that Mary Goose, who is buried here, was "the real Mother Goose". This dubious story continues to fuel the long-running mystery about the author... |
| romulusnr | 2007-01-16 16:17:15 | Blue Whale Skeleton | it looks like the ribs are on the ground waiting to be put into place, only the top ones are in. |
| romulusnr | 2007-01-04 16:48:07 | Odd Markings Near Djibouti | I'd by that for the circles, but that doesn't explain the brooms. |
| romulusnr | 2007-01-02 14:37:49 | Sedan Crater | Better link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_%28nuclear_test%29 |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-31 12:37:09 | Union Station | Add city name to title? There are Union Station's everywhere. |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-18 19:22:14 | Qwest Field with WSU game in progress | I read on the GE blogs that someone compared the play being shown with the play-by-play of the two games, and determined it to be the 2002 game. Sometime i'll find the link... |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-18 17:35:39 | Attack Formation | That must be similar to why Seattlites know no reason to cross Lake Washington or the Duwamish. |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-14 15:06:44 | 2002-12-16 - Crash aftermath due to landing-gear failure | Here's the crash report:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20021216-0&lang=en
Seattle... |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-12 15:28:00 | Burned down warehouse | I think they are lettered sequentially.
http://www.paris-ports.fr/uk/actualite/galerie/index.aspx?port=3... |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-12 14:41:12 | China - Hong Kong border crossing | Current imagery shows completed construction. |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-11 14:37:49 | Qwest Field with WSU game in progress | OK, I guess not.
But. Seahawks Stadium was renamed Qwest Field in June 2004. If we assume that the roof was re-painted before September of that year, then this game (with "Seahawks... |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-11 14:26:15 | Qwest Field with WSU game in progress | Wouldn't that make it the Apple Cup, when they play UW? |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-11 14:04:33 | Large Concentric Circles in the desert | Actually TZ doesn't have the circles or the diagonal road running southeast from it, so these are newer than 1989. |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-11 14:01:38 | Large Concentric Circles in the desert | Point is off a bit, I get 34.229612,-116.334196 in GM and TZ |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-11 13:53:54 | 2006-12-04 - Kim family found | And what's interesting about this to me is that, after I heard initial corrections that the car had been "6.3 miles further", I went to Google Pedometer, measured the road carefully, and got this... |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-06 01:36:32 | "Snow" covered craters on the Galapagos | Fixed now. |
| romulusnr | 2006-12-06 01:30:12 | Censored Noordwijk | The trippiest (and most effective) blur-out to date. |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-22 17:00:31 | Destroyed Iraqi Air Base | You can see the remains of the plane bombed at the end of the video, near the "crossroads" of the secondary runway and a taxiway that cuts through it. |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-22 16:59:37 | Destroyed Iraqi Air Base | This is almost certainly the "H2" airfield. This was attacked on March 31, 2003. This airfield's anti-aircraft had fired on allied planes patrolling the "No-Fly Zone" prior to the 2003 invasion. It... |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-22 16:11:54 | Burned warehouse | ... |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-22 15:44:02 | Burned down warehouse | This is either Warehouse K or Warehouse L, judging by the shape. |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-22 15:33:21 | Suspension roof on a bulk reservoir | A stumper. Mina is the city where pilgrims reside during the Hajj, maybe this is a large tent used for some ritual, but I can't find one that happens there or what these hills are named. |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-22 13:03:58 | VOR/DME antenna array | A VOR/DME antenna array, fairly common airport facility.
http://images.google.com/images?q=vor/dme
... |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-21 16:00:27 | Prison Cemetery | Come for the bodies, stay for the rodeo! |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-17 23:55:48 | Stade Mohamed Benhaddad | This is just south of an area marked as Kouba on a 1965 map. That means this could be the Stade Omar Benhaddad:
... |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-17 22:05:54 | Odd Markings Near Djibouti | Military. Note the military aircraft in the compound to the northwest, just south of the west end of the airport. Also note that the compound with the shapes is surrounded by multiple fences with... |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-14 01:41:21 | Menwith Hill Listening Station | It looks like the PUSHER is just south of the running track. It looks abandoned. |
| romulusnr | 2006-11-10 16:55:27 | Mountainside logos | In the center, translated, the words are "Always Ready" and "We Will Win". The coat of arms is the symbol of the Ministry of Defense; a llama, tree, and cornucopia.
One over to the NE... |
| romulusnr | 2006-10-11 13:25:42 | Clear cutting the forrests | Given the shapes and location I wonder if it could be related to illicit trades, as discussed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_and_burn. |
| romulusnr | 2006-10-11 11:54:05 | 320th and Pacific Highway | Better cache of the statefarm page:
... |
| romulusnr | 2006-09-09 12:37:08 | Drawbridge up | Tacoma's 11th Street Bridge, not to be confused with the other bridge on 11th Street which goes over the Thea Foss, which is a vertical lift and not a drawbridge, and which is really called Morgan... |
| romulusnr | 2006-07-24 15:47:02 | "Van on pier with ocean backdrop" Movie Shoot | It's true about LL and directions, but I've not seen this before *without* changing the view direction. Is this some sort of "flyover" simulation where you get different imagery depending on which... |
| romulusnr | 2006-07-21 15:12:23 | "Van on pier with ocean backdrop" Movie Shoot | If you navigate around and back enough, you'll manage to find a completely different pic of the same spot, with a lot more cars in the blue area.
... |
| romulusnr | 2006-07-06 18:23:07 | North Korean No-Dong Missile Launch Facility | http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/no_dong-imagery.htm |
| romulusnr | 2006-07-04 00:59:32 | Hospital Heliport | Looks like an H in the middle to me. |
| romulusnr | 2006-07-03 14:56:53 | Lake Bellevue | http://www.paceng.com/lake.htm |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-30 12:44:49 | Hydropolis - Underwater Hotel (future site) | Accg to the site, this is where the entrance will be built. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-29 14:21:00 | A sad looking island | Doesn't look quite as cool in the hi rez. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-28 19:13:49 | Unfinished development in Kuwait | There's been expansion in the current imagery, but still vacant spaces in the lower west-central area (Hurry and claim your spot before they're all gone!) |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-28 19:13:05 | Unfinished roundabout outside Kuwait City | There's loose development (or maybe just trailers) there in the current imagery. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-28 13:18:19 | Libyan communications facility with very tall antennas | Smells like VLF to me, which would make it military related. Could be radionavigation. Can't find much on any VLF in Libya, but I'll put in some queries. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-28 13:05:34 | Creative Camouflage | I believe this is the camoflage technique known as "undermaintained dirt and rust". |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-28 12:39:22 | Possible Return of Axum Obelisk? | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Axum |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-28 12:26:47 | Herd of Elephants | Shuld have the GE flag on it, the thumb is much finer than GM res. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-28 12:20:29 | Senghor International Airport | OMG. African coastal and southern hi-rez? This could become problematic for my time management. :) |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-28 09:35:03 | US Capitol Building | WH, Treasury, and Capitol aren't pixelated in GM anymore. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-20 13:20:22 | Attack Formation | Damn. Seattlites really would perform an assault via kayak, wouldn't they. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-09 18:08:18 | RTZ (Russian time station) | GE imagery shows a number of arrays here; aside from two isolated masts, there are what look like three linear aerials of 2.5 mi, 1 mi, and a slightly curved .5 mi aerial, the latter supported by... |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-05 19:15:01 | Central Valley Modified Community Correctional Facility | The building in bottom right is the minimum-security McFarland Community Correctional Facility. The larger structures are medium security. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-05 16:18:28 | Central Valley Modified Community Correctional Facility | The identical facility to the north is the Golden State Modified Community Correctional Facility: ... |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-05 12:18:43 | North West Cape Project | This is a VLF transmitter array. |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-05 12:18:17 | North West Cape Project | 00022.8:NWC:US Navy NCS Harold E. Holt, Norh West Cape, AUSTRALIA:MSK
NOT ACTIVE
NWC is currently only active at; 00019.8 kHz ( see this )
Operated on behalf of US Navy by RAN... |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-03 15:22:47 | GBZ Criggion VLF transmitter | Update more info link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criggion_VLF_transmitter
Also since these were demolished in 2003 add No... |
| romulusnr | 2006-06-03 03:53:49 | FTA27 French VLF station | Why 10 of them? |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-31 14:02:25 | Downtown Federal Way | Interesting. Pavilions II was not finished in the GMaps imagery but was for YM. Meanwhile, Rainier Bank was being built in the YM imagery, it must have still been a BK in the GM imagery. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-30 17:07:24 | RNAS Anthorn (closed) | Home to one of Britain's VLF transmitters; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLF#List_of_VLF_transmitters |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-25 17:44:18 | Surrounded Boat | In current imagery the white frothy stuff is not there at all, though the same boat (and little boat to the SE) are. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-24 12:39:03 | Nigerian oil field? | Also the "odd roads" I was referring to are probably irrigation, though that only makes them more strange to me. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-24 12:38:11 | Nigerian oil field? | It's damned peculiar to me that the only clouds in a large part of this area occur right by these things (and in the cloudy area to the SE, and maybe this is my imagination, but there seems to tend... |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-24 12:35:49 | Eastham Refinery | My bad. I went to Ellesmere looking for a refinery, figuring the one I found would be Stanlow. Little did I know there were two. Sounds like a great town for outdoor activities... |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-24 12:30:41 | GCHQ CSO Morwenstow | :) |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-23 17:19:07 | Menwith Hill Listening Station | There is widely rumored to be an HFDF array here, but I don't see one. Could it be that empty section on the center right side? |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-22 17:37:49 | High-Frequency Direction-Finding Antenna #2 | The Russian system was nicknamed "Krug" |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-22 13:55:15 | Former secret intelligence base | This point is an AN/FRD-10 Classic Bullseye array. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-19 18:48:56 | AN/FRD-10 HFDF | Looks more like its currently on a reservation, and being developed over. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-19 17:03:58 | Classic Bullseye listening antenna array | This is an AN/FRD-10. http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/classic_bullseye.htm |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-19 13:53:18 | AN/FLR-9 circularly-disposed antenna array | See also HFDF, Classic Bullseye |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-19 13:52:01 | Elmendorf Air Force Base | See also HFDF and Classic Bullseye |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-19 13:39:29 | Classic Bullseye listening antenna array | Classic Bullseye == HFDF. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-19 13:38:07 | AN/FRD-10 Classic Bullseye Antenna | Note how the trees around the antenna were also cleared to about half a mile from the outside antenna ring. Not something you see very often with these as they tend to be placed in already flat and... |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-15 19:51:48 | Energetikas | Hmm. GE was quite useful. I'd tried about the same, using Ymaps, but didn't come up with that much detail. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-12 18:57:44 | Energetikas | I'd love to know how you found that out :)
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| romulusnr | 2006-05-11 12:05:40 | African Venice - Neighborhood on islands | This appears to be part of the slums of Claratown, an area where soccer star and presidential candidate George Weah grew up. One description refers to Claratowns "muddy streets"; could these be... |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-05 18:57:39 | Gulf of Mexico | dupe |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-05 18:43:45 | Dome of a Home | Must not have been built at the time of the LL thumb. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-05 15:59:26 | Carikar | This is actually a whole mess of shabby villages in a farming crescent north of Kabul. Carikar is actually on the western edge. |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-05 14:29:27 | California City Correctional Center | I think I've confirmed this. Check out the Yahoo view of Bonnevile Flats and do some zooming. The low-res view is pure white with splotches of high-contrast blue and green. The high-res views also... |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-05 14:22:23 | Boscobel "Supermax" Prison | Seems that way. The highways to the north and south of the prison line up perfectly, as does the river and other roads further to the north. There's also a cleared strip running SW-NE north of where... |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-05 13:26:41 | California City Correctional Center | Wicked. If you zoom out a bit, you get newer imagery that shows the facility. It looks almost as if the colors of the newer imagery are ghosted onto the older but higher-res imagery.
... |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-05 13:03:22 | Don Valley Stadium | See also http://bafl.org.uk |
| romulusnr | 2006-05-04 17:12:27 | Boscobel "Supermax" Prison | Maybe add Satellite Errors on behalf of the LL thumb. |
| romulusnr | 2006-04-13 18:43:38 | World's Largest Red Wagon | I've been there geocaching; I wonder if I have any pics lying around. |
| romulusnr | 2006-04-11 13:54:42 | Airliner maintenance? | Hmm, JTT actually appears to be here. ... |
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