  Downtownguy Member Username: Downtownguy Post Number: 20 Registered: 07-2004 |
Ever since I first used Google Earth, I've enjoyed how it often gives an entirely different perspective from street level. Today I was noticing how many developments have taken place since the current satellite photos were taken: the new Motor City and MGM casinos, the plaza outside of the GM Wintergarden, the east riverfront, Campus Martius, etc. I also enjoy finding quirks in the imagery. Sometimes this is due to the way the satellite images are are stitched together. See how the Guardian Building and Comerica tower "lean" differently than the buildings south of Larned and north of Congress?  Also, the satellite image of the Detroit River railroad tunnel entrance was taken at the precise moment that a train was emerging.  For those of you who use Google Earth, what other quirks have you discovered from the skies over the motor city? | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1346 Registered: 06-2006 |
I always thought this one of Ford Motor Company Headquarters was funny... It was taken just as a Jet passed over on the way to Metro Airport, and it makes it look like the Jet is parked on the front lawn  | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 9313 Registered: 10-2003 |
The jet almost makes it look like the whole thing is a kids toy. | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 918 Registered: 12-2005 |
Here's another jet coming into DTW as it passes over the Southfield Fwy., one block south of McNichols:  | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 556 Registered: 10-2003 |
That white car in the Southbound lane is about to totally cut off that black car next to it. I think I see the guy in the black car sticking out his middle finger, or is that a gun? | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 908 Registered: 04-2006 |
Both jets are also painted in Northwest's old colors... | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1910 Registered: 04-2005 |
That was MikeM mugging for the camera  | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 176 Registered: 02-2006 |
This could be a great topic, ala Ookpik. Post a sat image and have people try to guess where it is. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1911 Registered: 04-2005 |
Just saw this at another site; Zoom into the guy by the speed limit sign, http://tinyurl.com/323w73 Street maps show the wildest things. | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 1098 Registered: 12-2006 |
Psip, what are you doing with your free time? | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1912 Registered: 04-2005 |
Free time? I have none, too busy searching google street views. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2222 Registered: 12-2005 |
Guardian/One Woodward bridge is in pieces:  | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 1101 Registered: 12-2006 |
Well then. I guess I can't complain. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1913 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Book Cadillac roof appears to be on Michigan Ave. Maybe its safer working on the ground.  | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 415 Registered: 08-2006 |
http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlc at12/Strange-Map-Quirks.htm Endless cool ones here | ||
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81 Post Number: 1464 Registered: 11-2003 |
If you use the birds eye view on maps.live.com, look at grand circus park. when you pan e/w depending on the frame, the hotel is there, then it is gone in the next frame. I'm sorry, been here all this time and I can't think of the hotel name. Statler? | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 3352 Registered: 10-2003 |
There is one more airplane photo in addition to the other two which I previously pointed out to the forum - this twin Cessna which skidded off the runway at Detroit City Airport:  The Fresh Logic Atlas software shows a car fire on an overpass is various stages. When the aircraft first flew by, it was just starting:  On the next pass, the car was fully engulfed:  Next time by, it had been extinguished:  Later, a wrecker was there to haul it away:  Finally, back to normal:  | ||
Quinn Member Username: Quinn Post Number: 1370 Registered: 01-2005 |
Ah the bay area...homeless and hipsters peeing all over. That makes me think of Deuce Bigalow European Gigalow when the Police Commisioner Guy, AKA the killer, says he's sick of foreign hippies coming to amsterdam for "Legalized drugs, and getting high and pissing and crapping in our historic streets." Cut to a guy in a Leafs jersey screaming, "I'm wasted!" And peeing on a parked car. | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 1318 Registered: 02-2007 |
I think it was the GM Old Headquarters that scares the heevy jeeves out of me looking at it from the sky (it looks like a weird maze vortex.) | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1734 Registered: 11-2003 |
quote: Okay, here's the first quiz. Where is this located?  | ||
Belleislerunner Member Username: Belleislerunner Post Number: 312 Registered: 12-2003 |
Everyone could use a laugh. This one's on google. http://maps.google.com/maps?f= l&hl=en&q=museum&near=San+Fran cisco,+California,+United+Stat es&ie=UTF8&view=map&om=1&layer =c&cbll=37.777452,-122.504927& cbp=1,289.875024308419,0.62871 3401659621,3&ll=37.784792,-122 .502236&spn=0.015093,0.029182& z=15 | ||
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain Post Number: 163 Registered: 04-2005 |
That trailer park is in Warren off Warner north of 8 Mile | ||
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni Post Number: 315 Registered: 05-2007 |
Dougw: A large trailer park in Warren, Michigan. | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 178 Registered: 02-2006 |
Bellislerunner, is that the pic of the guy peeing on the roadside? Whatever it is, Google says "This image is no longer available" | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1735 Registered: 11-2003 |
Dodgemain got it first. A trailer park just northeast of 8 Mile & Dequindre in Warren. | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 147 Registered: 08-2006 |
mikem, great finds. looks like Google caught up with the GoogleMaps hunters... all the good street-view images have been removed. |
