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Tuesday, 9th August 2005 by Alex Turnbull
This isn’t really an optical illusion, just an image mismatch on highway I-80 between Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska, but it looks really freaky! It makes my head hurt.
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
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Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.
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Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…
Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.
The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…
Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…
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It looks like the truck to the southwest of the split is going to hit the car to the northeast of the split. Look Out!!!
Here’s another example, that caused a major misalignment in Phoenix: View Placemark / Google Earth
The one above is just crazy.
On the one pooms mentioned, if you go right there are some really cool ghost planes in a major airport mismatch, and further right the mismatch makes for a very cool looking fuzzy strip through the middle of a large, full parking lot. If you go still further right, you will get to one of the original Missed Bridges.
that misalignment goes on for miles and miles. Look what I found way off to the east: View Placemark / Google Earth
Yes, and slightly to the east of that, is another case of mismatched roads: View Placemark / Google Earth I think they must have used an automatical algorithm for matching the images, and it made the two mistakes that I’ve posted, resulting in a major misalignment.
it is really freaky. google map always have the error.
Looks like this one has been fixed! (Probably quite a while ago, going by the date of the last comment)