Hidden in Holland
Monday, 25th August 2008 by Rob
The town of Brummen in The Netherlands is perhaps the last place you would expect to find a secret government conspiracy in action, but any other explanation would be naïve: Google have obviously been forced to disguise the structure with the help of the clone tool, and the repeated use of a beige trees produces some rather amateur results:
However, when you look at it in the rival Live Maps service, you can see nothing amiss, apart from a half constructed golf course to the side - not the most secretive fortification in my eyes. When compared side by side, the woods seem to be wider and there is definitely a suspicious change in water colour:
In reality, the most plausible suggestion would appear to be an humble technician trying to clear up a mess left by an imagery artifact or cloud, but my gut knows that it is something to do with the renegade Staten-Generaal. The bloggers over at 'Stinky Journalism' (seriously) have been to Google about this, and apparently they are investigating the anomaly.
We're aware that there seems to be an anomaly in our imagery and are working to determine what happened.
Of course, this isn't the first time Google has taken part in a bit of photoshop trickery, as we saw last year when they put on a sham aerial display.
Thanks: PhotoshopDisasters and StinkyJournalism.org
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Well, perhaps there was simply an UFO over trees.
I couldn’t load the GMaps link from the email. The screen was just blank (white), yet with all the controls still intact. I wanted to do a side by side comparison as the email suggests, but couldn’t.
Because of this, I can’t see in the Live Maps image where the site of interest lies.
Here is a “top secret” underground place that isin’t even hidden.
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Wow, the people at stinkyjournalism managed to uncover 5 blurred areas in the netherlands! I’m pretty sure there are way more.
Just from the vicinity we’re talking about here (which admittedly houses most of the Dutch army bases)
1: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=52.056924,5.879745&z=14 2: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=52.034858,5.685511&z=15 3: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=52.069746,5.698128&z=14 4: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=52.20524,5.718727&z=14 5: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=52.297772,5.662336&z=15
Hmm… It looks more like some not-so-nicely aligned imagery, if you look closely here, https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=52.089956,6.129314&z=18 you can even see a horizontal line where two images come together. Like we have not seen that before…
I take it that the Silly Season is not over yet in the UK?
There’s quite a comprehensive list of censored sites in the Netherlands, posted in the GEC forums.
Most of the sites are either military installments or government/royalty-associated buildings. Some are still unidentified if I’m not mistaken.
Here is the link: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/597468/an/0/page/3#597468
The area directly next to it on the left (across the water) is suffering from the same affliction. The pattern is more scattered, but there is definitely a pattern there as well!
The blurring doesn’t do much good when you can go to the competitors site and pull up the same location and get a nice crystal clear picture. see Koen’s first blurred location in LiveMaps here: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=52.06009~5.881376&style=h&lvl=14&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=12192675&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
The same strange fake forest near Paris :
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Thanks for the links guys! This coverup goes higher up than I thought! 😀
The strip of trees to the right also looks suspicios: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=52.090015,6.126257&z=18
@ Fromage: Thanks for this one! I haven’t seen the use of mirroring on Google Maps before. It even continues a short way south.
@The Z: We’ve looked at your problem, and hopefully your issues are now fixed!
It would appear the “anomaly” is about to disappear! They’re onto us! Run for the hills!
Pah! A likely story…
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/09/where-in-world-is.html
military communication tower:
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