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By: mike.

mike. — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:28:44 +0000

Dan - Re: occupied football pitch

Looks like there’s a match going on outside Seoul, S.Korea right here:

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:55:05 +0000

Definitely a football pitch.
You can see the shadows of the floodlights, 2 at each end of the pitch.

Also the long white part to the west of it is presumably a set of seats (or bleachers as the Americans would say).

By: Alexey N. Solofnenko

Alexey N. Solofnenko — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:30:56 +0000

It looks like everything green is black. The field might be actually green.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:36:02 +0000

I believe those lines of pits mark the line of buried irrigation ditches.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:13:24 +0000

OK, since the HTML didn’t work, here is the link to the second picture:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=52.625811~1.241797&style=h&lvl=19&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=7709824

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:11:29 +0000

On the subject of football pitches, I thought it would be an idea to try and find some people actually playing football, and I came as near as possible right in my very own city, Norwich, England.

This only worked on Live, google maps resolution is rubbish in Norwich.

Well, first of all here is the School I attended 2 years ago (Earlham High)

We were allowed access to the nearby astroturf pitches owned by the UEA (University of East Anglia) so I thought i’d give them a look.

I zoomed in and struck gold. As you can see here, there is a nice line of students, all in their plain white tops, with a single figure in front of them, which I can only assume is the teacher giving instructions.

By: Imnama

Imnama — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:36:23 +0000

Adrar’s main attraction must be the strange organisation of the town. In the middle there is a meaningless big square,- it cannot be used to anything beyong parades that hardly ever take place anyway. And out here in Sahara, big open squares are the worst thing there is, nowhere to hide from the sun.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:30:59 +0000

Here’s another football pitch, a concrete one, but you can see the lines this time.

Looks like they were chalked on on something.

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: koen

koen — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:23:03 +0000

Anyone knows what these these weird crater-like things are? There’s a lot of them around, going in lines to the the south.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:54:40 +0000

I think you could be right there.

I definitely see the goals and something in the corners, but it makes me wonder why the ground is so dark and why you can’t see the lines.