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Title: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: Joe Rogaine on December 29, 2008, 08:50:31 PM

Does anybody have any idea what the name of this place is?

Go here and zoom out.



http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=&daddr=-40.349679,-9.880598&hl=en&geocode=&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=18&sll=-40.349377,-9.880496&sspn=0.003614,0.008261&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.067103,-12.310846&spn=0.003784,0.008261&t=h&z=18 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=&daddr=-40.349679,-9.880598&hl=en&geocode=&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=18&sll=-40.349377,-9.880496&sspn=0.003614,0.008261&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.067103,-12.310846&spn=0.003784,0.008261&t=h&z=18)

Title: Re: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: emdasher on December 29, 2008, 09:03:54 PM

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MiwoDpbcdk[/youtube].

Title: Re: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: studiode on December 29, 2008, 09:07:37 PM

Here's what I found : http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1436044 (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1436044)

Title: Re: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: break on December 29, 2008, 09:52:22 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha)

Title: Re: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: <<<<< on December 30, 2008, 12:05:17 AM

Wow, I wouldn't have expected to see a volcanic island at that location.

Title: Re: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: <<<<< on December 30, 2008, 12:14:46 AM

Oops, where did the Aral Sea go (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/96173)?!?!?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Aralzee.jpg)

Title: Re: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: Andy on December 30, 2008, 12:20:33 AM

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Chernobyl,+%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9,+Ukraine&sll=57.136239,114.609375&sspn=96.137621,315&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FXFjDgMdU27NAQ&ll=51.270722,30.233345&spn=0.051336,0.153809&t=h&z=13
I wonder why they have it blanked out.

Title: Re: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: erechoveraker on December 30, 2008, 12:24:32 AM

Quote from: Andy on December 30, 2008, 12:20:33 AM

I wonder why they have it blanked out.

(http://erechoveraker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/paul_mc_crane_robocop.gif)

Title: Re: Fun with Google Maps the middle of nowhere
Post by: <<<<< on December 30, 2008, 12:48:45 AM

I guess I never realized Chernobyl is actually west of Moscow.  I'd always assumed it was in a more remote region.