In a classic example of large type on Google Earth, here’s a roof where someone has written ‘Welcome to Cleveland‘ in 6-foot-high letters.

Usually we’d assume that this was a kind message welcoming air passengers to Ohio’s second largest city - but in this particular case the writing is actually in the flight path of the nearby General Mitchell International Airport. That’s the General Mitchell airport, Milwaukee, Wisconsin!

The story goes that one day back in ‘78, Mark Gubin was having lunch on his roof with his assistant, who remarked upon all the low-flying planes - saying how nice it would be to make a sign welcoming everyone to Milwaukee.

Apparently Gubin simply said “You know what would be even better..?”

Thanks to Carson Diltz, oz and Chico Seay. You can read the full story at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Google have just added four more cities to Google Street View, the ground-level 3d panorama addition to Google Maps.

The new cities are:

• San Diego, California
• Los Angeles, California
• Houston, Texas
• Orlando, Florida

which, like the original 5 cities of San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, now have high-resolution, people-watching images.

If you find any fun, attractive or just plain weird images on street view then make sure to share them with the community in the Google Sightseeing Street View Forum.

Thanks: Google Latlong