On a rooftop in the Netherlands we find a blurry picture that may, possibly, if-you-squint-your-eyes, might appear to be two people that are lying very close to each other.

Now, I’m not going to speculate what these people are doing in the privacy of their rooftop. In fact, I’m not even sure that there’s more than one person there!

For all we know this is just some run-of-the-mill topless sunbathing, right? I mean, what else could it be?

Thanks to “IRoN CYbOrG”

As 2007 draws to a close we present our choices for the best posts of the year.

Best Mystery

There were numerous contenders for the most confusing or bizarre images, but our pick is the Mystery Plane Outline, as even the generally accepted answer, that these are small rocks arranged in the shape of a plane, still begs the question: “But why bother?”.

Best personal project

In February we were impressed with one man’s attempt to single-handedly recreate a cruise ship in his front drive.

Lamest World Record

The Largest Wooden ship in the world from April easily wins this prize, due to having a less-than-exciting title and the fact that the specially built ship has never even been in the water!

A special mention also goes to the German towns squabbling over who has the most unintentionally leaning building.

Our Brains Hurt Award

Getting our heads around the Island and Lake recursion from September’s Island Week 2 was almost too much, but I think we get it now…

Best Smallest Thing

We loved the idea of the world’s smallest parks from January, but the world’s smallest municipal park was just too darn small to see from satellite! Fortunately, Google now have a street view shot of it.

Best World’s Most Enlarged Thing

In the last year we’ve featured many, many sights that claim to be the “World’s largest something” but our pick for the Best Largest something is the World’s largest fingerprint.

Best Imagery

Undoubtedly the most amazing images to be found in Google Earth are the African Megaflyover project aerial shots, and the best of these images were highlighted in November’s Google Sightseeing Safari.

Best Blurry Pictures

Some of the aerial images in Google Earth are amazingly high resolution, but not high enough for our tour of miniature parks across the globe, which ended up as a list of blurry blobs that sort-of look like the Eiffel tower.

Best Landart

The ancient Incan geoglyph of a cat is fantastic, and much more intersting and attractive than kfc’s logo stunt.

Most Ignored Warning

A few days after we posted this year’s April fools joke: “Live Satellite Images in Google Earth” we updated the entry with a banner warning users that it was a prank and there are no live images to be seen. Did anyone read that? Of course not! We still get a new message almost every week from someone who fell for the joke and wants to know where the live images are.

Most In-Depth Post

For a long time it had no decent imagery, so during Island Week this year we really went to town on our Easter Island post, and managed to condense 2,000 years of history into a mere 600 words.

Best Large Type

The rooftop message “Welcome to Cleveland” isn’t very interesting at first glance, until you realise that the message is over 400 miles away in Milwaukee!

So that’s our picks of the year, but with over 250 entries in 2007, what were your favourites?

Wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2008 – see you all next year!

When we first saw this sports field of a Pennsylvania high school, we reacted with “Oh, great, another crudely drawn willy, are there really no original field graffitti artists anymore?”

Unable to say anything worthwhile, we forgot about this sight and relegated it to the slow news day pile.

However, today we’ve been swamped with emails suggesting the sight, so we’re posting it now purely because we really don’t want to see it ever again.

Please, stop suggesting we look at this penis. We can’t take it anymore.¹

Many thanks to Tom, Steve, J Brett, Rich, Guido, H Dog, Mike and many, many others for thinking of us

Actually, you could barely call this childish scrawl on the roof of a French University “art” (stop sniggering).

By my calculations (yes, I measured), at around 7.7 metres this is actually the smallest of the penises so far found on Google Earth. Slightly smaller than the English School roof one (7.9 metres), a bit smaller than the Cerne Abbas Giant’s 8.3 metre member, and completely dwarfed by the massive 53.4 metre phallus etched into this frozen lake in Connecticut.

However at 7.98 metres across, I’m pretty sure this qualifies as the world’s largest drawing of an arse.

See also: The Pen 15 Club, Rude Alien Crop Art and The Cerne Abbas Giant.

Thanks to Arno and Eric.

This is South Korea’s infamous Jeju Loveland, an outdoor sculpture park on Cheju Island, which is based entirely around the theme of sex.

The park’s website describes it as “a place where sexually-oriented art and eroticism meet”. Which means that what you can see in our thumbnail is exactly what you think it is.

There’s 140 sculptures here mostly representing couples in various sexual encounters, although only one or two of the bigger ones are visible here due to the fairly low resolution of the satellite shots. Therefore, I feel it is my duty to provide you with links to the official Jeju Loveland website, a gallery of photos from ground level, and another gallery with shots of some different sculptures.

Although it should probably go without saying, please bear in mind that all three of those links are quite probably Not Safe For Work!

Read more at Wikipedia if you dare

Thanks to Anon!