Geography 🌎 Exploring Google Maps

[Planit]

Ass Clown Brewery took the letters off there sign (for some reason).

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[luckless pedestrian]

If you happen to amass a lot of money, can you not do $%^& like this please


[PS how do you post the google map box like you do]

 

[Dan]

[PS how do you post the google map box like you do]

Google Maps kludge with [gmap] tags.

(1) Go to Google Maps, and center the map on the location you want to embed.

(2) Click on the Google Maps menu (three bars).

(3) Click on "Share or embed maps" from the dropdown menu.

(4) Click on "Embed map".

(5) Copy the long code between https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb= and ". For the map above, it looks like !1m18!1m12!1m3!1d93532.55571272006!2d-78.93448215309492!3d42.89621760304876!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89d3126152dfe5a1%3A0x982304a5181f8171!2sBuffalo%2C%20NY!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1607881637462!5m2!1sen!2sus ,

(6) Paste the code between the [gmap] and [/gmap] tags.

If you want to embed a Google Streetview location, do the same thing.

Urbanism!

(See this post.)

 

[JNA]

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[Dan]

The saddest little shutters in the 'hood.

An overenthusiastic blacktopping job.

Uhhhhh ....

They apparently like carriages a lot.

A house in an alley. Sideways.

 

[Maister]

The back of this grocery/party store happens to be near Caribou, Maine. Yeah, I know, not all that interesting. Sorry, but they can't all be gems.

 

[luckless pedestrian]

The back of this grocery/party store happens to be near Caribou, Maine. Yeah, I know, not all that interesting. Sorry, but they can't all be gems.

son, you best be turning around and high tailin it out of here

 

[Maister]

son, you best be turning around and high tailin it out of here

Wait, are you saying that IS an interesting scene? Hey, I'm not from Down East. I can't be expected to know these things.

 

[luckless pedestrian]

Wait, are you saying that IS an interesting scene? Hey, I'm not from Down East. I can't be expected to know these things.

oh yeah, I wouldn't use that bathroom - or rather, if you did use the bathroom in there, you don't have to worry about the vaccine kind of thing

 

[mendelman]

Almost the northern most place in the State of Michigan.

Effectively the northern most place in the State of Ohio.

 

[Whose Yur Planner]

Almost the northern most place in the State of Michigan.

Effectively the northern most place in the State of Ohio.

Copper Harbor for the Michigan one?

 

[mendelman]

Copper Harbor for the Michigan one?

Isle Royale...way further north in Lake Superior.

 

[Bubba]

oh yeah, I wouldn't use that bathroom - or rather, if you did use the bathroom in there, you don't have to worry about the vaccine kind of thing

Herd immunity in Atlanta can be traced to surviving a night at the Clermont Lounge.

 

[Whose Yur Planner]

Isle Royale...way further north in Lake Superior.

Forgot about that, you are right. I've always wanted to visit there, but never have.

 

[TOFB]

We were cleaning out my mom's house and came across this painting that I recall hanging in my grandma's house decades ago. Never thought much about it. Turns out the church was just around the corner from where she lived in Bowmore, Islay, Scotland from 1910 until she got on the boat in 1914. Google Street View link below.

Kilarrow Church

 

[jsk1983]

The saddest little shutters in the 'hood.

An overenthusiastic blacktopping job.

Uhhhhh ....

They apparently like carriages a lot.

A house in an alley. Sideways.

I was looking at this area the other day on streetview and my guess as to what house was the blacktop job was right.
Also what's the deal with Wisconsin Place? So unusual to see alleys in Buffalo... The brick house I'm guessing predates urbanization in that area...

 

[Planit]

Incoming torpedo

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[JNA]

Dare you to regulate these murals -

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For the Marines - Amphib

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[Planit]

Not exactly Goggle Maps, but this is Goggle Earth (& I probably just killed your productivity for today)

Google Earth's 3D Timelapse Is Its Most Important New Feature in Years

Google wants to help people understand how the planet is changing before our eyes.

gizmodo.com

 

[Dan]

Brambleton, Virginia.

 

[Planit]

^^^some landscape architect had fun with that project.

 

[Whose Yur Planner]

^^^some landscape architect had fun with that project.

Well they do seem to be a randy lot.

 

[SlaveToTheGrind]

Brambleton, Virginia.

Are those trails or veins?

 

[DVD]

Well placed lake.

 

[TOFB]

Brambleton, Virginia.

To quote Dan, "I'll just leave this here".

 

[mendelman]

Are those trails or veins?

Where are all the single ladies?

 

[Dan]

This house.

The surrounding neighborhood. Basically one huge Superfund site

 

[Whose Yur Planner]

This house.

The surrounding neighborhood. Basically one huge Superfund site

The industrial Midwest, you got to love it.

 

[Maister]

The industrial Midwest, you got to love it.

I love how these are their next door neighbors

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[luckless pedestrian]

I don't think I would like to live that close to a power line

 

[Maister]

I don't think I would like to live that close to a power line

Mrs. Maister started out after law school doing insurance defense work. Cases of 'stray voltage' are NOT as rare as you might think.

 

[Maister]

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An unrelated side note, don't you just love it when people have massive quantities of junk in their back yard but someone makes a point to plant a decorative yucca in the front yard so their property will look 'nice'?

 

[Planit]

The Famous Peach water tower (butt some people thinks it something else)

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[Maister]

Ever notice how a lot of walking paths in Japan don't use concrete surfaces?

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[luckless pedestrian]

The Famous Peach water tower (butt some people thinks it something else)

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Fatz Cafe, wow

 

[jsk1983]

This house.

The surrounding neighborhood. Basically one huge Superfund site

Any idea who lives there? I'm guessing the mayor...

 

[Dan]

An interesting way to incorporate rest areas into an expressway exit.

Râmnicu Vâlcea · Romania

Romania

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(It's really in Austria.)

 

[Maister]

Ah, Liechtenstein! So close and yet so far. Maybe some day Google earth will be able to drive through, but until then we must content ourselves with merely setting eyes upon your doorstep.

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[luckless pedestrian]

An interesting way to incorporate rest areas into an expressway exit.

Râmnicu Vâlcea · Romania

Romania

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kind of reminds me of this on the NYS thruway but it's a rest stop

 

[SlaveToTheGrind]

Ah, Liechtenstein! So close and yet so far. Maybe some day Google earth will be able to drive through, but until then we must content ourselves with merely setting eyes upon your doorstep.

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What is Lichtenstein hiding?

 

[mendelman]

What is Lichtenstein hiding?

 

[Dan]

What is it with European suburbs and giant triangular pylon signs? (In the first Streetview link, turn around to see even more sky-high triangular signs.)

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USA! USA! USA!

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[SlaveToTheGrind]

What is it with European suburbs and giant triangular pylon signs?

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Zoomed in down the street. Never been here before. 100% is a tough threshold.

 

[Dan]

Zoomed in down the street. Never been here before. 100% is a tough threshold.

I think it's safe to say that zoning in Austria is about as strict about adult uses as they are about signs.

Also, that's a violation.

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That's a violation.

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No, seriously, what's with the triangular signs?

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Does anybody know where I can find a Burger King?

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Beautiful Vienna.

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In case you missed the first sign.

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There's probably one BILLA store for every 200 Austrians. Plop the little Google map man down in any built-up part of the country, and it's probably 500 meters or less from the closest BILLA.

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Really. I did a random drop, and there's another one, even though it wasn't on the map.

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"But it's so much more authentic than a sterile American suburb!" Uh huh, NUMTOT. Whatever.

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Googledriving through German-speaking areas, it seems like Dengisch is everywhere.

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[Planit]

Where's Waldo?
Well this is beautiful downtown Waldo.

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[JNA]

Traffic circle

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[Planit]

It's a bird. It's a plane.

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[Maister]

I google drove around residential areas throughout Graz, Austria for quite a while. I struggled to find a piece of litter on the ground, a flake of paint missing on a dwelling, or a blade of grass not trimmed. It feels strange driving around and everything is so....orderly.

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[luckless pedestrian]

I google drove around residential areas throughout Graz, Austria for quite a while. I struggled to find a piece of litter on the ground, a flake of paint missing on a dwelling, or a blade of grass not trimmed. It feels strange driving around and everything is so....orderly.

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yeah that's crazy

 

[JNA]

Lincoln & Popeye

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