Comments on: Firefox Crop Circle

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:01:43 +0000

Y’know, they should tell us when they’re going to take arial photos… then people all over the photographed area would intentionally make the best sights ever.

On the downside, though, that would open the door to a whole new kind of advertising. Imagine a giant golden arches painted across an entire county, and visible from space, on Google Maps. That would suck.

By: Scott Nichols

Scott Nichols — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:36:09 +0000

rob is not correct… google sent a plane to take the pictures.

By: Scott Nichols

Scott Nichols — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:34:57 +0000

I am the red dot in the “2″, which is not a “2″. We are just laying there. We all sort of plopped down in a random shape. This all happened before firefox2 came out.

the square shape one poster noticed is the ultra high res picture turning into high res picture. The google plane did that because otherwise it would have a line at the low res pictures… they are blending…

By: rob

rob — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:02:46 +0000

Yeh, what happened is that basically, someone from google will have been a mate with someone from firefox team, and got given this aerial shot. and just stuck it in the db.

By: Timhogs

Timhogs — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:49:33 +0000

I suspect collusion - it seems that of all the surrounding area, only this one square is available at the highest resolution level.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:16:02 +0000

i think thats a very cheap way to make comercial. i guess firefox payed google to integrate it.
i mean look at the area, there i nothing special on it, just farms. whats so interesting to take a closer look? right, nothing, except u know what u find.

cheers
dave

By: Keith T.

Keith T. — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:30:34 +0000

If you view this in real GMaps and zoom in all the way, you will see that the copyright at the bottom changes to say simply Google, and not DigitalGlobe.

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:55:35 +0000

It seems very likely that the creators of this crop circle had the aeriel photo taken, which would explain why the photo was taken squarely on the logo. Someone at Google must have come accross the picture and decided to integrate it.

By: HobbesPDX

HobbesPDX — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:30:57 +0000

Check out:
http://www.firefoxflicks.com/web-diaries/?cat=1&paged=2

This will explain the beings which brought this crop circle into being…

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:03:08 +0000

Why is there a completely square shaded box around the logo?

This looks like the source image in the map has been edited in someway.

Anybody else think the same?

Could there be another reason for the different hue and brightness of the shaded box?

Did Google take a new satellite photograph of this map square only?!

Is Firefox hacking Google maps?