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Sunday, 31st July 2005 by James Turnbull
Two factories of the Coca-Cola company. The first is in St. Petersburg, Russia and the other is somewhere in Germany.
Thanks: Max & Bilbo
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This place somewhere in Germany is called Herten.
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What about the world headquarters in Atlanta? Can anyone provide a link?
This should be the Atlanta HQ: View Placemark / Google Earth
it’s the beginnig… spam in google maps!
remember me, Im predict this!
It’s the future!
On a side note, haven’t they made ads in space illegal?
I think that Coca Cola just painted that on top of their roofs. I really don’t believe this is the begining of google spamming in their maps.
Not far to the southwest is the “Veltins-Arena” in Gelsenkirchen, a multipurpose stadium, mainly used by the german soccer club “Schalke 04″:
View Placemark / Google Earth
The roof can be closed and on the lower left side one can see the soccer field. It lies in kind of a tray of 11.000 tons and can be drawn completely out of the stadium.
I dont think that is painted on, but maybe a shaped skylight window from the factory, as the light seems to be of the same intensity.
look!
http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/08/03/greater-seat-park-of-leisure/
it’s just the begining!
Have these images been updated since last year i wonder because the coca cola logo on the german factory is nowhere to be seen?