Check out this weird section of image that woowoowoo found in North Korea. He said:

Somehow a whole chunk of data has inverted colours – taken into Photoshop and inverted, it looks much more correct.

In our first thumbnail you can see a section of the image as it appears on Google Maps, and our second image is the exact same image after the colours were inverted in Photoshop.

To celebrate the first Moon landing today (July 20th, 1969) Google have added some NASA moon imagery to the Google Maps interface and created Google Moon. Make sure you zoom right in for a hint at what the moon is really made of

The Richat Structure in central Mauritania is a stunning geological structure 50 kilometers across (Wikipedia entry). Once thought to be an impact crater, it is actually a sedimentary formation that has eroded flat over many eons. Apparently there’s a hotel smack-bang in the middle of it.

There are also several other similar structures in the Sahara, such as the Jebel Uwaynat (thumbnail #2) which was used to define the borders of Sudan, Egypt and Libya, and also the Brandberg Intrusion in Namibia.

Even though none of these features are in high-resolution, it’s well worth zooming in a bit, as they’re perhaps even more fascinating to look at closer up.

Thanks to Pat Scaramuzza, Peter Nordstrom, GeMatt and Kai Huebner.

This isn’t a sight I’m afraid, just a quick update… Has anyone else noticed that Google have finally put a scale on their maps?

Update: Yup, sorry it appears I missed the boat. There’s an article over on Scavengeroogle about it already

Update 2: Oops. Googlemapsmania had it first, and apparently we told them about it! Who knew? However, a comment on this post points something very cool out. Tobin said:

did you notice that if you’re looking at the initial view (the entire US), when you scroll around the map, the scale changes? I assume it’s because the curvature of the earth.

Try it out, it’s cool!

Some large type. ‘Net Jesus Red‘ is seen here written on the side of a hill in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. I assume the language is Afrikaans, but unfortunately none of the online tools I could find would translate it…

I tried Dutch though, and got ‘Save Exactly Jesus’. Can anyone do a more accurate translation?

Updated: Thanks to everyone who translated the Afrikaans to “Only Jesus Saves”.

Thanks to TeddyJoe.