| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| romulusnr | 2005-08-19 17:52:56 | Auditorio Nacional de la Ciudad de Mexico | It's an auditorium, apparently the most popular in Mexico. Lots of famous acts play there including stage and music acts. Check out the calendar: ... |
| romulusnr | 2005-08-04 18:27:57 | Where many roads meet... | Hybrid mode and other maps say this is Saudi Arabia. Nearest town is Turayf (or Turaif depending on the romanization) in Saudi Arabia. I could find no indication of any installations or settlements... |
| romulusnr | 2005-08-04 17:04:30 | Crescent Slough | The curve is Crescent Slough. See http://www.elections.bc.ca/map/dls_a_1of3.pdf and ... |
| romulusnr | 2005-08-03 13:22:54 | Where many roads meet... | I don't think those are roads. Possibly power lines. |
| romulusnr | 2005-08-03 12:38:01 | Los Angeles Storm Drains | why still call it "terminator 2 chase location" when it has a real name and has been used in more than just that movie? |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-28 13:23:25 | Bellevue Airfield (abandoned) | The helipad in the middle of the former field is supposedly still active, though. The un-redeveloped land is now maintained by the city parks division. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-28 13:16:23 | Los Angeles Storm Drains | These are the Los Angeles Storm Drains, which are part of a system to collect rainwater and direct it to the ocean to prevent heavy rains from flooding the area rivers and lakes. (They are NOT... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-28 12:57:50 | Windsor Building | fourth largest in spain, that is. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-28 12:57:39 | Windsor Building | fourth largest skyscraper and site of a huge fire in February.
More info: ... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-27 19:58:25 | Unknown platform in the Adriatic | Doranchak's CNR research platform is what is seen in scotchpenicillin's map URL. (Just look for the long mast.) So *this* map is of something else. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-27 19:54:40 | Unknown platform in the Adriatic | Either one of those really could be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rose_Island>Rose Island. The... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-27 19:24:33 | Sociedade Hípica Paulista | More info: http://www.sociedadehipicapaulista.com.br/
Babelfish tells me (in not so few words) that this is... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-27 19:18:03 | Dandora Ponds | From the url:
"The Dandora Oxygenation Ponds are situated 20 km due east of Nairobi City centre, just off the Nairobi–Kangundo road but within the city limits. The main sewage... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-27 19:16:36 | Dandora Ponds | I think it must be Dandora Ponds, a waste treatment facility in the city of Dandora, outside Nairobi: |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-26 13:10:09 | Centro Penitenciario de Segovia | This is almost certainly "CENTRO PENITENCIARIO DE SEGOVIA", aka Segovia Prison, outside the hamlet of Torredondo. See |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-26 12:44:14 | Centro Penitenciario La Moraleja | Looking west, that is.
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| romulusnr | 2005-07-26 12:43:44 | Centro Penitenciario La Moraleja | Got it. This is the "Centro Penitenciario La Moraleja", on highway P-120 outside Duenas.
Here's a |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-26 12:22:25 | Swimming pool with scimitar shape | </sarcasm> |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-25 12:24:40 | Swimming pool with scimitar shape | that's so not a sabre.
look, if you're gonna |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-21 09:53:43 | Tycho Crater | oh, and given its prominence in 2001, i'd like to request a Movie Locations cat. :) |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-21 09:53:17 | Tycho Crater | yeah, the submit form will only accept URLS starting with "http://maps.google.com/"; i was trying to trick it :) looks like kjfitz adjusted it... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-20 12:20:34 | Tycho Crater | crap. Well, you can't hate a guy for tryin'. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-19 16:59:45 | Tuulet ja suunnat | Some kind of huge art installation?
http://www.environmentalart.net/vainio/ |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-19 16:48:01 | Half of a ship? | It sort of looks like a stitching error, but I'd expect the break to be noticeable by enhancing the waves around it. Still, I've noticed that some of Google Maps' stitching are done with varying... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-19 16:43:06 | Parque Almirante Guillermo Brown | Clarify: this is *part* of the park. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-19 16:41:39 | Parque Almirante Guillermo Brown | Mapquest ID's this space as the Parque Almirante Guillermo Brown. Only info link I could find on this place was a mention in Encarta: ... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-19 15:45:34 | Central Fountain of Dajia Riverside Park | This is apparently the Central Fountain of Dajia Riverside Park.
More info: ... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-19 15:40:28 | Seabrook Nuclear Station | Well, my More Info link got lost in the process.
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| romulusnr | 2005-07-19 15:37:38 | Unidentified Floating Object | Yeah, it seems to me an oil rig and scuba divers wouldn't be a good thing to be close together. It's awfully close to the island too. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-18 18:50:30 | Seabrook Nuclear Station | Incorrect state, see my sub w/ more info http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/2181>here |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-18 15:49:04 | Centro Penitenciario de Segovia | Could it be |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-18 15:46:07 | Centro Penitenciario La Moraleja | It may be the |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-18 15:32:00 | Centro Penitenciario La Moraleja | I don't think David's picture is of a prison, but a school. Everyone is wearing different colors and there are no guards. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-15 19:11:03 | Floating man - Swim pontoon | City is actually Southport, not Brisbane. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-14 19:01:28 | Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory | I think it might be the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
at Lords Bridge:
... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-14 18:52:54 | Russian Railway Research Institute's circular test railway track | This is the circular test railway track of the Russian Railway Research Institute (VNIIZHT), in Scherbinka.
More info link: ... |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-13 19:03:43 | Street layout in the desert | It's righy by Fort Irwin, which is apparently seeking to expand. Maybe this is part of it... housing for stationed personnel? |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-13 18:57:49 | Great Mosque of Samarra | The city is Samarra. Notable military hotspot on the Tigris.
The mosque is, naturally, the |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-13 18:48:46 | Diesel Fuel Storage Tanks | These are steel storage tanks, apparently empty and rotting, rusting, and collecting rainwater (causing weird circular shapes).
And this is almost certainly the former |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-13 18:36:06 | Plaza de Toros en Ocaña | The city is Ocaña. Can't find any info on the arena. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-13 17:59:27 | Unidentified Floating Object | The spot is Payu Island, or Koh Payu. It's hard to find info on, and I can't find anything about a rig or platform there. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-12 14:19:47 | Weird Lake (Cracked Ice?) | Ice cracks on the large scale, too. Besides, nature is just a big fractal anyway.
Note that one big crack leading from the east promontory has apparently re-frozen over. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-12 14:03:30 | Churchill Falls insanely long hydro corridor | Zoom out, you can follow it all the way down to Sept-Iles. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-12 13:42:49 | Strange red shadows/ghosting | it's also visible in some of the shadows of large buildings and such in from the coast. looks like a red filter alignment problem or something. |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-05 16:50:40 | Mississippi River Delta | see http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/rivers/delta.htm |
| romulusnr | 2005-07-05 16:48:53 | Mississippi River Delta | i don't think any of them are man made, that's what happens at the end of a river (in a spectactular way in this case) |
| romulusnr | 2005-06-28 16:02:55 | Trafalgar Square | add cat: Movie Locations -- nearly any movie in London where someone walks through a gaggle of pigeons takes place here. |
| romulusnr | 2005-05-16 22:07:38 | Mueller-Harkins Field (abandoned) | More info on this and other abandoned airfields:
... |
| romulusnr | 2005-05-13 15:33:46 | Washington State Penitentiary | The address: 1313 N 13th St.
More info: http://www.doc.wa.gov/facilities/wspdescription.htm |
| romulusnr | 2005-05-10 17:06:44 | Log Raft | is that really a "raft", or just cut logs being corralled in the water? |
| romulusnr | 2005-05-10 17:02:09 | Star in Downtown Phoenix | http://phoenix.gov/PARKS/patriots.html |
| romulusnr | 2005-05-05 16:10:00 | Cargill Salt Ponds | depending on the spectrum filters and conversions used by the satellite camera and processing, that red may be from something else, too, like a chemical or mineral that reflects certain invisible... |
| romulusnr | 2005-04-20 00:41:47 | Irrigation Patterns | yeah. rectangles are SO second milennium.
lots of farms now have irrigation systems which are basically a long pipe on a central pivot and resting on wheels on the far end. so circular... |
| romulusnr | 2005-04-20 00:22:07 | Harvard | Note this view centers on just the lower half of the main Cambridge campus. Harvard Yard (aka Haavid Yahd) north of the middle, where Church Street runs underneath it. North of the Yard is the... |
