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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Strange Things Happening On Google Maps

Google Maps and Google Earth have created an pretty fun new app.: The Map of Strange.

The Map of Strange shows you the bizarre, interesting, and odd things you find on Google Maps and satellite photos. It is a publicly editable interface (ala wikipedia), I don't know how people find all this crazy stuff on Google Maps; but they do! For example: in the southeast, somehow found a car doing doughnuts in a parking lot:

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The Vice-President's residence (with some interesting comments):

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A capsized boat:

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An S.O.S.:

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