Novelty Saturday - Film Tags and Artifacts

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Saturday, Nov 13 2010 by

Google and Microsoft purchase their imagery from various sources. Sometimes these companies’ quality controls aren’t of the highest standards and artifacts from the processing of the film finds its way into the final data set.

Here are a few of the more blatant artifacts found by VGT members:

Film tag identifies camera used to shoot aerial photos (Google Maps)
Film tag identifies camera used to shoot aerial photos

Image label and alignment mark (Google Maps)
Image label and alignment mark
Digital tags remaining in imagery (Bing Maps)
Digital tags remaining in imagery

Standard watch embedded in LL imagery (Bing Maps)
Standard watch embedded in LL imagery

Film Tag (Bing Maps)
Film Tag

Numbers on the image (Bing Maps)
Numbers on the image
Soviet meter embedded in LL imagery (Bing Maps)
Soviet meter embedded in LL imagery

Crazy Spaceship Over Minnesota (Google Maps)
Crazy Spaceship Over Minnesota
Film Tag (Google Maps)
Film Tag

'CST' (Bing Maps)
'CST'
Alignment mark (Google Maps)
Alignment mark

Registration Mark (Bing Maps)
Registration Mark
What is this? (Google Maps)
What is this?

Registration mark (Bing Maps)
Registration mark
Target (Google Maps)
Target

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