Fun With Google Maps
In a series of articles over the past week, the Register has pointed out some strange things that can be found with Google Maps. First, check out the map of the moon that Google added to its service today in honor of the moon landing anniversary. Zoom in as close as possible and you'll discover an unusual revelation. 
Second, Google maps reveals that there's a building on a military base here in San Diego that's built in the shape of a swastika. Strange, but true. It's not clear why this design was chosen. Probably the architects didn't bother to think about how it would look from the air.
Finally, Google sleuths have discovered an image of a face that can be seen in some Peruvian sand dunes. Of course, it's already been declared to be the face of Jesus.
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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First... I would've thought you would have had to take an X-ray in order to see the cheese???
Second... That's 4 seperate L-shaped buildings. When you zoom in you can see the shadows of the buildings being cast where they should be connected if they were in a swastika. From a distance it resembles one but definately isn't one.
Third... That's not Jesus you see in those sand dunes. It's Alex!!!
Posted by Mark-N-Isa in Midwest USA on Wed Jul 20, 2005 at 10:33 PM
Second... That's 4 seperate L-shaped buildings. When you zoom in you can see the shadows of the buildings being cast where they should be connected if they were in a swastika. From a distance it resembles one but definately isn't one.
Third... That's not Jesus you see in those sand dunes. It's Alex!!!
if you look really closely, you will see that it's ki-adi-mundi
Posted by tapnclick1940 on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 03:32 AM
Yeah...those buildings aren't actually connected - so I guess it can't really be gagued as a swastika - but still, it LOOKS like one, right? If it looks like a swastika, and it quacks like a swastika...
I couldn't see the dune one, and LaMa beat you to the moon one - he showed us that yesterday? The day before, maybe?? I dunno.
Posted by Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 04:28 AM
I couldn't see the dune one, and LaMa beat you to the moon one - he showed us that yesterday? The day before, maybe?? I dunno.
Looks more like Dumbledore to me. Let's worship it.
Posted by cvirtue on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 05:11 AM
I love how the people at google can keep a sense of humour in what they do. What ever happenned to the "weapons of mass destruction" thing they linked too ?
Posted by Jockamo in Toronto on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 05:12 AM
Cheese??? 
Posted by sss222 on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 05:26 AM
haha the cheese i very cute. i looked at first and thought "what the hell is that", but then i figured it out...
very nice
Posted by RAMONESxMANIA on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 05:27 AM
very nice
Was Jesus in a fight? His nose looks broken.
Posted by Charybdis in Hell on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 06:51 AM
he looks like some old guy, like a gnome
Posted by RAMONESxMANIA on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 10:06 AM
I couldn't see anything on the moon map- only flat grey. It didn't look like the moon at all. sooo confused...
Posted by Snowy on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 10:39 AM
i could not see anything in the yahoo picture of the moon except for falt gray. it is not fair--i want to be let in on the joke too!
Posted by Raquelly on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 10:42 AM
There's a lot more of this sort of thing at http://www.googlesightseeing.com 
Posted by Kat on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 10:51 AM
Raquelly, if you zoom right in, it turns into a picture of cheese.
Posted by Boo in The Land of the Haggii... on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 10:59 AM
Ah, Boo spoilt it.
Posted by Charybdis in Hell on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 03:29 PM
Check out the Weirdness section at Google Sightseeing (Link above) or the Event -> Satellite Problems link at Google Globetrotting (http://www.googleglobetrotting.com) for lots of other fun things.
I moderate at the archival "Globetrotting" site, but I must admit that much more in depth discussions on weirdness tends to occurr over at the "Sightseeing" showcase site.
Items of particular amusement (at both sites) are the "UFOs" found over Florida and LA, the "Alien Civilization", and what appears to be packing tape across the maps of Canada, Russia, Austrailia, and Africa.
Posted by TexasAndroid on Fri Jul 22, 2005 at 06:01 AM
I moderate at the archival "Globetrotting" site, but I must admit that much more in depth discussions on weirdness tends to occurr over at the "Sightseeing" showcase site.
Items of particular amusement (at both sites) are the "UFOs" found over Florida and LA, the "Alien Civilization", and what appears to be packing tape across the maps of Canada, Russia, Austrailia, and Africa.
My Boy Scout troop once got a chance to stay at that base overnight. We noticed the swastika to. Someone asked around and heard that the guy who designed the base was a nazi and felt it would be ironic for a US Naval Base to have a nazi logo. They didn't figure it out until after the building was completed. So instead of tearing it down and rebuilding, they built the 2 barracks to the southwest in the shape of bombers flying toward the swastika. Of course, this is probably all a bunch of bull, but it's an entertaining story to tell a Boy Scout troop right?
Posted by biznacho in Huntington Beach, CA on Sun Jul 24, 2005 at 11:11 PM
RAMONESxMANIA wrote:
"he looks like some old guy, like a gnome"
Jesus is a gnome?
Posted by Ed on Mon Jul 25, 2005 at 01:42 AM
"he looks like some old guy, like a gnome"
Jesus is a gnome?
That moon picture's a fake, everyone knows the moon is made of green cheese!
Posted by Bill on Mon Jul 25, 2005 at 06:26 PM
Try the new service that Microsoft is offering...
Have a go at finding Apple´s buildings, or see the twin towers in full glory at http://virtualearth.msn.com/
Posted by Beasjt in Earth on Tue Jul 26, 2005 at 08:16 AM
Have a go at finding Apple´s buildings, or see the twin towers in full glory at http://virtualearth.msn.com/
If you find the site of were the buildings of Apple are supposed to be you´ll only find a wasteland.
Posted by Beasjt in Earth on Tue Jul 26, 2005 at 08:20 AM
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