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One of two ways for most batches.

Sometimes I come across a list of interesting locations and go through the list looking for each. For example the Nike Missile sites. Other times I happen across one and then while looking for more info to add to the description I come across references to others of the same type.

In this case I was looking around the boneyard at Davis-Monthan and saw the first Guppy. Research said there was a second in he Pima Air Museum...

I was looking for this. Thanks!

Now according to a database of 707 fuselages there is suposed to the the front half of one used here for training. I guess that might be it along the east side of the course but I doubt it since that structure seems to be in-line with a course.

Looks like all the Katrina maps are hosed. We're looking at it.

Perhaps that's the 'new' prison on the other side of the wall to the west.

Here's an old postcard of the prison so I assume what we see here is the old prison:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~wellerst/collection/images/stateville_illinois_prison.jpg

OK, this is a coincidence. I spent part of this morning looking for a Military Working Dog training couse inthe Davis Monthan images. Never found it though. It is suposed to have a Boeing 707 fuselage at the training site. For training the dogs in an airplane environment (I assume).

Cool map. Welcome to Google Globetrotting!

Look at http://www.prisoners.com/jailadds.html and serach the page for State Road.

Looks like these are Philadelphia County Jail and other related detention facilities.

This site shows structures just like this one and calls it "finfish aquaculture." I think they are nets used to contain fish that are grown amd then harvested at maturity.

http://www.clf.org/programs/cases.asp?id=207

You rock! What city next?

Ha! and her 'campfire girls?' I still have a 8x11 that they gave away as a booby prize at the school's Halloween Festival.

Thanks for all the fxes. I've implemented them all.

Everyone I know just refers to it as Adak. I think there are / were three different names for bases in Adak.

Adak Naval Air Station / Adak Naval Air Facility
Adak Naval Operations Base
Adak Army Base

Welcome to GGT! We've been lacking Italy submissions lately. Thanks.

That is way cool! This is why I love GGT. I love these unusual sites.

(User stochelo posted this to my query on the Google Earth Forum)

This facility is part of the "Centre de Transmissions France Sud" (or CTM France Sud), operated by the Marine Nationale, near Bram.

I think there is another site in low-rez area, near Villemagne (43.36, 2.11).

Here is a 2:20 video, showing clearly the antennas.

This is were the satellite Syracuse 3A is operated.

In the western part of the site are two ELTA...

A poster in the Google Earth forums identifies it as the T'aech'on Hydroelectric Power Plant.

Good first posts! Welcome to Google Globetrotting!

I originally put Berkeley but then I found this Berkeley City planning document that states "The Summit Reservoir, located in the City of El Cerrito..."

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/planning/landuse/plans/generalPlan/eir/4j_hydrology.html

Good sites but how about fleshing them out a bit. Do a few google searches on your topics and add a description and link to more info.

Cool first post! Welcome to GGT.

I spent the last week in Paris. I should have looked you up. Maybe in May.

From:
http://www.paknavy.gov.pk/HISTORY/MUSEUM/MUSEUM-main.htm

A large lake has been built on the museum premises to achieve an atmosphere of the sea. A complete Minesweeper and a Midget Submarine have been anchored in the lake. For the preservation of the rapidly diminishing tradition of manual boat building a traditional riverine boat called Baghochan has been permanently displayed. The...

This bridge is decorated by the famous statue of the "zouave" carved by Georges Diebolt, on the up-stream cut-water of the single pier. This statue is used as reference mark for the level of the Seine floods.

dda, you could resubmit this as a Google Earth only map if you want to since this city is high resolution in Google Earth.

Got it!

Tajoura Nuclear Research Centre

This image:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/libya/images/tajura-pic003.jpg

is taken facing ESE at this point:
http://www.google.com/maps?q=Libya&ll=32.840087,13.451504&spn=0.006089,0.010784&t=k&hl=en

Krasnoyarsk-45:
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/12709

I'm sorry but you are wrong about this not being C-50L (the L being for "Launch." You may have grown up outside a former Nike missile site but it wasn't C-50L. Multiple listings of this site have it here and the pad is clearly a Nike Launch pad. Those same listings have the command center west of Illinois 11 and North of 178th street which would be consistent with a site 3/4 of a mile to the NW.

Did you live next to this site?
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Well you are half right. It isn't Krasnoyarsk-45. But it isn't merely some northern subsurb of Tomsk eithr. It is Seversk, home of The Siberian Chemical Combine (Sibkhimkombinat) which consists of five military production reactors, a chemical separation plant, a reprocessing facility for uranium and plutonium, a uranium enrichment plant, and storage facilities for radioactive waste. There is also a facility to store retired warheads.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Also, some people grab their thumbnais from Google Earth and Google Earth often has images from different times.

There is another one far inland here:
http://www.google.com/maps?q=United+Arab+Emirates&ll=24.220158,54.617629&z=0&t=k&hl=en
(feel free to post it)

I missed that when I approved it. I moved it to International Waters. Thanks.

I wish more people would take a topic and pound it to death like this. Like the Vatican maps, the nike missiles, the castles, etc. We alsways get a good pile of interesting maps that as a whole make an even more interesting collection.

Good job!

p.s. If anyone is looking for topics like this let me know, I've dozens queued up.

Actually we're both wrong. Look closer. The pool has twelve sides.

Video: http://www.argusleader.com/assets/mov/DF13214123.MOV

Way to go!

Here is a direct link to the full short film:
http://mirror.rtor.net/rendezvous20_04.mov

500!!! Good job! I love your castles. What will you post when you run out of castles though? I hope you visit each and take pictures of them for the Pics section of GGT.

I hereby award AKpilotEMT (the first) Official Assist (TM). Thanks!

I know someone who just got an M3. This submission is for him.

Welcome to Google GlobeTrotting!

Actually the palace is the the SW. Here's a good breakdown of the area:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/tharthar-cc-imagery.htm

This page mentions air defenses:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/tharthar-cc.htm

I suppose these could be defending the Tharthar Presidential Palace just to the SE. No other missile sites around though and what would be the point of radars with out missiles. Maybe the small mounds are missiel sites?

Wow, you obviously feel very strongly about this.

I added it to the "abandoned" category. The USGS lists lots of places that were once populated that no longer have any sign of current or former habitation.

It is just a my GGT way of celebrating the holiday.

Analogman, you are awsome. Thanks! These are the exact type comments i was hoping you'd make when i posted these.

Very good first post! Welcome to Google Globetrotting.

Great first submission! Welcome to Google Globetrotting.

But if it still offends you then I think if you should really look at where the "copying" is happening.

Let's just look at the ten most recent postings at GoogleSiteseeing:

The Korean airfields that are the most recent GoogleSiteseeing post along with the paculiarities described in the text is as far as I can tell, derived from a lot of work that pdunn has obsesively done over the last three months on the Korean sites.

The Voortrekker monument was...

Nuke plants don't have smokestacks or coal fields. Look to the south and you can see the mountains of coal.

Many people think these water cooling towers mark nuclear plants but they are just water cooling towers for condensing steam. The steam may be heated with coal, oil, nuclear power or natural gas.

We'll go with local.

How about some details? Like how you know this is it and links to more info. Your posts are pretty bare. It is customary around here to flesh out posts if there is info to be found. Most of yours would be fairly easy to flesh out.

By the way, how do you know that this particular plane is the shuttle's 747?

Welcome back! You're on a roll!

Like defense sites on maps of the former Soviet Union McDonald's offsets their establishments on their own maps in case the rest of the world choses to target them with ICBMs (International Cheese Burger Mutilaters).

My 2500th map!

The south end of the camp is the Iowa Highway Patrol Academy:
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/9897

Starbucks! Starbucks!

Hey, I say go for it. We probably won't put them all on the front page and we'd sure get sick of moderating them but whatthe heck.

Launch pads just to the NE.

You've spent time in Asheville I take it...

Hmm. My Description used to say exactly that. It seems to have gone bye, bye.

velosteve points out that this is now the Asheville Mellowdrome, a bicycling track.

The golfcourse just to the west is Bangphra Golf Club:
http://www.golfingguidesthailand.com/s-Bangphra%20Golf%20Course

Actually closer to Si Racha onthe north side of the Bang Phra reservoir.

Wow, that's freaky. But solar would be oriented to the south or at least all inteh same direction. These vary from straight south to north east. In google earth the largest ones in teh northern area seem to be mounds with wedges cut out of them. I'm thinking a Thai version of a burial mound.

Good submissions. You're doing well.

Please try not to submit thumbnails or URLs that result in the red pointers.

You can remove them by stripping the address portion frm the q=...& arcuement in your URL. You can leav the city and state as they won't cause the red marker.

If there is no long, lat in your URL you can remove them easily by shifting the map a fraction to the side and then clicking "link to this page" and then removing the address...

Here is the launch site that this IFC area controlled:
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/5492

Yup, I only did launch sites. There was hardly ever anything left of the radar sites or the command sites that I didn't wantt o eneter hundreds of empty fields.

According to this:
http://www.aircraft-charter-world.com/airports/middleeast/qatar.htm

Qatar's is 15,000 feet long.

Why movie theater? There's no parking.

This whole area seems to be related to the power company, coal, power plant, offices, training center. I wonder if these are some kind of spill cleanup booms held in ready. Maybe one of those EPA mandated things for this site.

Welcome to GGT! Good first post.

I agree. It is exactly on the route given here:
http://www.v-sol.co.uk/GUMBALL3000/images/maps/Messina%20Ferry.jpg

Also the Google Images of "Messina Ferry" show this ship.

I've updated the submission.

This has been identified in the Keyhole usergroups as a military base.

If they are parachutes then they are in two sticks. The plane is at the head of the western stick. There is a parallel stick to the east. If they are parachutes then there shouls be another plane out ahead of the second stick.

A quick google of "Korean Barrage Balloons" yeilds many links saying Korea still uses barrage ballons near AAA sites.

AnalogMan may know better than me but with this plane flying so close I wonder if these are (1) barage balloons or (2) target ballons.

The plane has the characteristic grey ghost ahead of it that indicates that this plane is actually flying.

But to heck with the plane. Look behind it and further to the NE. There are a dozen or more white spheres.

The ones furthest to the NE have very clear ground shadows and they have the characteristic grey blur that indicates that they were moving fairly quickly when the image wa shot. Some are very close to the ground if you look at their shadows.
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There are old costal defenses all over this point:
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/5532

Here's a news story mentioning them being moved to Balad air base in 2004.

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007115

Welcome back.

That spiral to the NE in the Jardin des Plantes looks cool. Is it a maze or a mound or just a flat spiral path?

The black smudge at the back end of the airplane makes it look like an F-4 but the smudge is only black marks on the tarmac. The plane looks identical to this inteh close up:
http://www.airshowreport.com/f14.jpg

In Google Earth you can definitely make out that it is an F-14. pdunn if you want I can update your thumbnail with a close-up.

Thanks. I was there this weekend and wondered what they'd look like in Google Maps. At 2300 maps you filter everything you see through what it would look like from space.

That's a really cool first submission. And welcome to Google Globe Trotting!

Not only that but this is might actually be titled "Island with a pool with an island" since it's on Sardinia.

I'm guessing those news stories that the link used to bring up timed out. Here's one of the original stories:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4267238.stm

Maybe some kind of range or target. The trail in the SW corner leads west to the target end of what is clearly a small arms firing range.

Thanks for the huge pile of "fixes" today. We really apperciate it!

You say, "This image illustrates just how nearly impossible it is to recognize missiles or other large threats on the ground from the resolution provided in Google' satellite imagery."

But I have to disagree. It goes to show how limited the views are in GOOGLE LOCAL (aka GOOGLE MAPS) but the same data viewed in Google Earth gives you something like 3x the magnificatin and those missiles, tanks and helos are quite clear.

Add an accurate scale with which to...

Thanks Josema!

Thanks. When I have a bunch of maps to post I post the raw thumbnails and then work my way through researching them and update as I go before approving them. Looks like you're getting to bunch of these before me. Cool! thanks.

Yes. He's from Casper.

http://www.ussiowa.org/pics/turrets/pics/whole_turret_cutaway.jpg
and
http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/cutaway/ture.jpg

There is even the story about the Brazillian Battleship Rio de Janeiro that suffered structural difficulties due to the size and depth of its seven turret wells.
...

They are the wells in which the turrets sat.

I don't think it is a crater. I think it is a mound. It is on a concrete pad. Look at the trucks parked on the SE corner of the pad. They throw shadows to their west sides. If this was a crater then the east wall of the crater would be in shadow. Instead the west edge is in shadow as it would be if this were a mound. That would explain the run-off to the west side of the pad and the smaller mound to the NW. This may be a pile of mulch or manure for the gardens. Is that a chipper just NE of the...

What are those coordinates and where do they come from? They don't show anything in high res. They also don't match the thumbnail.

More likely a gas flare-off.

They aren't dyed... read here about the colors:
http://www.cargill.com/sf_bay/saltpond_ecosystem.htm

There is a similar deperming station in Norfolk at:

36 52 02.87, -76 19 57.40

I think this is a deperming station for the huge submarine base further to the SW.