Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
This is the very lovely, but otherwise totally normal-looking Place de Terreaux in Lyon, France. Nothing strange about it at all, right?
However if you turn on the “show labels” option on Google Maps, it looks a lot like Google have been trying to draw a gigantic GPS penis.
Is it possible that the map provider did this on purpose, as a way of identifying their map data (a Trap Street), or is this just a very happy-looking coincidence?
Thanks to Keir at Google Maps Mania.
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It looks like there are 2 ramps going down, so this will be an underground parking
YEs, this is a underground parking !
http://www.location-parking.com/parking-public/69001-Lyon/Parking_Terreaux.htm
There may be something stranger yet about this, which makes this non-accidental – go ask some French esoteric specialists about the history of Lyon and the Place.
It is definitely a garage. Here you can see an entrance on Rue d’Algerie just east of its intersection with Rue Terme.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The other entrance is on Rue Sainte-Mane des Terreaux just south of its intersection with Rue Sainte-Catherine.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
There are two other underground garages just east of this location that are also depicted, despite that you cannot see them in the aerial photography.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth