kjfitz: Comments

Not a shipwreck. It's a drydock.

New country. I though we had at least one post in every country by now.

Cool first post. Welcome to VGT!

I thought it was interesting enough to seek it out on a trip to Paris after reading the Metropole article (Metropole, while spotty over the years, is a pretty cool little on-line magazine.) I'll see if I have pics and post them.

Welcome to VGT!

Needs English translation.

Needs an English translation.

Needs english translation.

Welcome to VGT. Please make you descriptions in English though. Thanks!

Welcome back!

A Sentry is an E-3. This is not an E-3. This is more likely an AN-50 Mainstay of Russian design, a modified Il-76. The dimensions are the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_A-50_Mainstay

Look at the category and more info link. It is the future location of the stadium.

I think this is a Radar Cross Section facility or something similar.

Thanks but it was found by someone else on GE forums earlier today:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/440415

Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate USS Klakring (FFG-42)

Welcome back!

At 44 meters long it is almost half the length of the 747 (70+ meters). It is a Boeing 707-340B.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/203413

I'm betting the blue parking lot is the equivalent of a 'blue screen' and ocean is added in post processing as a special effect.

Please uncheck the 'show labels' checkbox on your LL maps before taking the thumbnail. Thanks.

Thanks. I've noticed worldstadiums is often wrong when it comes to identifying international stadiums too, sometimes assigning incorrect names or including incorrect images. Especially in France for some reason.

Don't forget this whale:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/15968/

This ship is now docked across from Jack London Square in Alameda, CA.

Probably a mix of both. If there are a bunch in one place then probably abandoned or waiting to be scrapped. Alone more like you say; a shipwreck or something similar. But I'm no expert.

Someone over in the GE forums has the definitive collection of the world's shipwrecks. Lots more details on some sites. He could probably shed more light on the subject.

A lot of older ships cost more to salvage in the US than they are worth because of the cost of handling the hazardous wastes onboard (lead paint, asbestos, PCBs, etc.) Many of these ships are sold for next to nothing to third world countries ostensibly to be scrapped but with the implicit understanding that the'll be dumped off in one of these graveyards. I imagine one day the price point of processing these vs cost of the raw materials in them will cross some threshold and all of a sudden...

The bunker will reopen to the public:
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/07/13/286811-cold-war-bunker-under-wva-resort-reopens

It is a pond:
http://ad0605.myweb.hinet.net/chinamap1.JPG

I think it gets into someone's database and sticks. I usually set the comments to off for a while until it gets kicked out of the spammers database.

Interesting story and picture here:
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/eira/?xjMsgID=9083

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20040402-0

"The aircraft lost directional control and ran off the side of runway 23L. The right hand main gear leg collapsed, causing additional damage to the nr.3 and 4 engines."

02 APR 2004

Still there as far as I can tell. I just tried it. the first time it failed. I went out to the west and slipped in facing East and it went OK. Then I tried the original link again and it worked.

LL has been flakey today. This morning Pacific Time it was down completely. Maybe they are making some changes.

Lots of BEV links seem to be broken right now.

In this particular case though I added 'ancient' and 'amphitheatre' when I submitted the map and the automatic category algorithm added 'theater - misc'. When this map gets moderated (It hasn't at the time we wrote these comments) I would normally delete the 'theater - misc' since the 'theatre - amphitheatre' is more specific.

When we moderate we can add more categories or remove categories. If there are more categories that you ever want added just put it in a comment for your map and we can add it. Two seems to be the average so that's what nic put on the submission page.

Zoom in and you'll see that they are trees.

How's that?

AN-24 Coke

Based on its length I'd say it fits the specs of the MI-26 HALO

"The Mi-26 helicopter, the heaviest and most powerful helicopter in the world, was designed for carrying large-size cargoes weighing up to 20 tons."

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/mi-26.htm

Map 1400!

Map 1200!

Sorry, I didn't mean the old one. I see what you mean now. The new imagery is worse than the old. I agree. A couple of places, especially islands are completely gone.

I agree with jbottero. First if you look closely at the car tracks around the rim it isn't like a track. Second if you google for pictures of kite surfing here you find them all out in the dusty lake bed, not on a track. In fact i think there are a couple up to the NNW if you look closely.

Feel free to submit a new one.

(should be in an airplanes - wrecked category)

(should be in an airport - closed category)

(should be in an airport - closed category)

(should be in an airport - closed category)

(should be in a airport - closed category)

No longer there after the June 9 2006 google database update.

Wow, check out this site now in hi res. You can see the retracted gantry and everything.

Possible Kite Skating / Wind buggy course
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/31283

I added it for you.

The other one looks like it could be this one:
http://www.anyboard.net/gov/mil/anyboard/uploads/p1.jpg

Especially the bottom picture.

You should post the Y-8 Cub next to it too. It is another AWACs.
http://mil.jschina.com.cn/huitong/y-8x_sh-5_a-50i.htm

Your 600th map. Good job!

Sorry. We don't have any control over the submit tmes. They go into the database based on when they were submitted and it isn't a field that moderators have access to.

Operated by CAAS Airport Emergency Service and used for search and rescue.

Your 400th map! Congratulations!

Your 500th map! Congratulations!

Always makes me wonder about places like this:

http://news.google.com/maphp?hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=35.176053,-165.149231&spn=12.810357,20.610352

I assume it was a keyboard entry by some data entry person entering a clients request. Oops, left off a minus sign and you got... water instead of a missile silo.

If you back off a ways youll see this is the edge of an image that they've patchworked over the area. It is just an artifact of the images that were merged.

In some case rather than have a high level category for everything or put everything in a misc category we have to apply the best that we have.

Sometimes a sub category gets used as an adjective / modifier. We are fairly loose with the categories so don't expect perfect fits all the time.

It is the right size and shape to be an M10 A1 tank killer but the barrel is a bit long.

See also:
http://www.reserveusa.com/jsp/commonpage.jsp?goto=/nrrs/ia/praf/newindex.html

I've posted a collection of all the features I can find in this site here (GE only):

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=469501&page=0&vc=1#Post469501

I don't know if it is related but the Chinese conducted nuclear explosions about 400km to the WNW.

Extra credit for showing your work... ;)

Exercise for the reader:
(Assuming the clock is correct) Look up the height of the tower, measure the angle of its shadow, and calculate the date.

And here is a section of white painted area covered with fabric.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&q=China&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=40.491144,93.468992&spn=0.002913,0.006781

Definitely military related off to the west:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&q=China&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=40.457952,93.314111&spn=0.002914,0.006781

I thought that too at first but look in the SW corner. There are road ruts that parallel the very edge and then around the end of some of the lines. Other lines have ruts like someone drove off the end of the line and looped around to go back up it.

Staging area for the painting with ruts radiating out into the pattern here?
...

Good first map. Welcome to VGT!

Great first map. Welcome to VGT!

Welcome back!

Rated by Business Traveller Magazine as the 'best' airport in the Middle East.

Better than New Yorker's who can't get it together to invade New Jersey...
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qsn0m38tz3mx&style=o&lvl=2&scene=1481206

Good article on a massive test of the evacuation of the federal goverment (continuity of geverment) that is being conducted today (6/19/2006):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201410_pf.html

Thanks!

Picture:
http://www.r-s.com/projects/images/T8T814_1L.jpg

You should post the cool skate park next to it too.

Two more entrances to the east.

The longer subs are SS Romeo Class and the shorter ones are SSC Sang-o Class.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/s-romeo.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/s-sango.htm

Works for me? caching error?

Map 700. You're on a roll.

Great first post with lots of details. Welcome to VGT!

Recent article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_3931081

Recent article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_3931081

Gone in the june 9, 2006 database update.

Now in hi res in GE with a clear shot of a tunnel dug into the mountain side.

I walked in to these today and they are gone. (At least the three to the east; I couldn't get to the one to the west.) There are a few foundation blocks with rusted steel on top but nothing else. (6/10/2006)

Gone in GE after the June 8, 2006 update.

Gone in GE after the June 8, 2006 update.

Gone in GE after the June 8, 2006 update.

I think the new submission today (6/9) is actually the correct location. Towards the end there is a very clear shot of the surrounding roads including the clearing with two trees and large buildings just to the NW at the slight turn in the road.

Hmm. New imagery in GE but worse quality with a BIG blank bar through it. (kjfitz, breaks out tin foil hat.)

Is it gone or are they building it? It looks too neat to be a demolition. Also the major landmarks line up. I think GE went to older maps.

Bad URL.

Now we have two candidates for this event.

And Google says "F*ck You" and puts this site in high res in the June 8, 2006 database update. ;)

Based on its length the Google Earth Forums decided this was a hellcat.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/101270/page/vc/vc/1

Welcome to VGT!

(Be sure to click 'link to this page' on Google Maps before copying your URL or the URL will be incorrect.)

Your 500th map!! Good job!

I think that is the intersection of multiple images. These maps are a patchwork of many many images. This happens to be a place where the seam is more noticable.