Google Earth, found anything interesting ?

WHAT!!! · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:02

Well i was on google earth 10 minutes ago and was looking around bristol and surrounding area and came across this pretty amazing man made object (yes its only a motorway) but it made me go wow.

type the below into the search bar to see it

51 33'04.8" N 2 33'08.27 W

I always like a nose around google earth to get to know areas im visiting abit better and just for something to pass sometime aswell.

Anyone eles found anything pretty interesting ? not the obvious things like area 51 and such but things that are less know about and equally as gob smacking / interesting, preferably in the UK

Ripper · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:05

I found Spain once

WHAT!!! · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:07

Ripper said:
I found Spain once

Nice one, you can zoom in closer than just seeing the countries you know right ?

TwoSaints · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:19

I found the hidden flight simulator (Press Ctrl+Alt+A)

Vulcan · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:21

Jonny_no2 said:
I found the hidden flight simulator (Press Ctrl+Alt+A)

It's in the menu, hardly hidden.

TwoSaints · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:24

It's only there once you unlock it as above...

JIM_BOB7813 · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:26

Street View will probably have more interesting things than Earth.

Timdog · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:27

i almost found chuck norris, but my computer exploded

Link

topgun06 · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:27

WHAT!!! said:
type the below into the search bar to see it

51 33'04.8" N 2 33'08.27 W

Winner:
52.5114036373, -1.86525812436

WHAT!!! · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:31

topgun06 said:
Winner:
52.5114036373, -1.86525812436

although thats not as pretty as mine its equaly as gobe smacking if not more as how they came about making such a mess lol

knip · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:32

My house!
Although its not been updated for a while because it still has an old car on the driveway....

Timdog · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:39

knip said:
My house!
Although its not been updated for a while because it still has an old car on the driveway....

the microsoft live one is a lot more recent. at least where i live

topgun06 · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:53

Timdog plz and thanks said:
the microsoft live one is a lot more recent. at least where i live

So it is! Still about 2 years old though. More recent than google none the less!

Berserker · 18 Apr 2008 at 22:59

A little hint - try looking up instead of down. :cool:

V4NT0M · 18 Apr 2008 at 23:03

The Monument to the Unknown Soldier in baghdad, I saw it and I was like "wtf!" took me a little while to find out what it actually was.

LizardKing · 18 Apr 2008 at 23:38

WHAT!!! said:
type the below into the search bar to see it

51 33'04.8" N 2 33'08.27 W

Before i checked i knew that was going to be the m4/m5 junction

OSB · 18 Apr 2008 at 23:53

How about this for a motorway junction (highway interchange)

gumbald · 19 Apr 2008 at 00:07

My car. On Microsoft thingy, but an unknown car on the drive on Google.

Dave M · 19 Apr 2008 at 00:18

Never used google earth before but it's got better imagery of my area than multimap - much (much) more detail and from the looks of recent road building is from september.

Begbie · 19 Apr 2008 at 00:29

Just checked out livemaps and it is more uptodate than google earth for my area anyway.