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Novelty Saturday – Film Tags and Artifacts

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

Image label and alignment mark
Digital tags remaining in imagery
Standard watch embedded in LL imagery

Film Tag

Numbers on the image
Soviet meter embedded in LL imagery

Crazy Spaceship Over Minnesota
Film Tag

'CST'
Alignment mark

Registration Mark
What is this?

Registration mark
Target