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renkessler
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17 years ago 0 
Here is an interesting place:

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=34.0867156&;lon=-118.3690166&z=14&l=0&m=s&v=4&show=/7030864/I-m-28-YEARS-YOUNG-HANDSOME-HOT-SEXEY-MALE-SEEKING-SWEET-GIRL-FRIEND-CALL-ME-0091-9933764858&search=los%20angeles">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=34.086715 ... %20angeles<!-- m -->

Browse around this "hidden" Los Angeles and then move around the rest of this "hidden" world. Fascinating!
19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
Perhaps it is the container lost with the rubber ducks. In the website indicated by "dikbrijs" point the chilean coast.
mmrolim74
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17 years ago 0 
Not exactly an "interesting place", but take a look at this polygon:

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=32.0569725&;lon=33.7692261&z=9&l=9&m=a&v=2&show=/7000230/Archeological-Site-of-Phoenician-Shipwreck">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=32.056972 ... -Shipwreck<!-- m -->

A masterpiece, made by jacksav!

PS: while we need support from the admins, they are drawing polygons... bad guys, bad guys! I quit!
(Of course, just kidding :oD)
ArnoutSteenhoek
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17 years ago 0 
I think it wasn't jacksav but mitsver!
mmrolim74
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17 years ago 0 
Hmmm, I thought it was jacksav because of polygon history: 7/06/08 - 08:02 (discarded by: jacksav)

Anyway, still being a masterpiece! ;o)
seafordian
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17 years ago 0 
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=40.4363811&;lon=-79.9909644&z=18&l=0&m=h&show=/10160413/Confusing-Sign-Push-or-Pull">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=40.436381 ... sh-or-Pull<!-- m -->

eh???
forrestgumprock
Joined: 18/08/07
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17 years ago 0 
Im confused.....
stcraftie59
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17 years ago 0 
We know, Forrest. It will go away soon... :o)))

BYW, edited the description to left instead of right.
forrestgumprock
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17 years ago 0 
.......thats good!
vinimetz
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17 years ago 0 
The satellite took LSD? UFO? Secret message? Wonderland?

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-21.530855&;lon=-49.8112392&z=15&l=9&m=a">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-21.53085 ... 15&l=9&m=a<!-- m -->
forrestgumprock
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17 years ago 0 
SHUT UP! NOW THEY'LL KNOW WHERE MY SPACECRAFT WENT THROUGH :P!
seafordian
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17 years ago 0 
Whoa that is freaky! I gotta stop taking shrooms!
stcraftie59
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17 years ago 0 
Naw. shrooms just make it clearer. It's them peyote worms that make it weird.
CalifBeachBum
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17 years ago 0 
Here's an interesting Google Earth shot over Huntington State Beach…

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=33.6531642&;lon=-117.9971874&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2">wikimapia.org/#lat=33.6531642&;lo ... =0&m=a&v=2<!-- m -->

This jet appears relatively close to the ground over a very popular Southern California beach town, with no airport for miles around.
allgaiar
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17 years ago 0 
The largest home i have ever seen! :-D
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=27.4315086&;lon=79.0328979&z=10&l=5&m=h&show=/9760948/vivek-gupta-house&search=kampil">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=27.431508 ... rch=kampil<!-- m -->
RK77
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17 years ago 0 
@ allgaiar,

It is the only home I know that has a village within it! Astounding! ;-)
CalifBeachBum
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17 years ago 0 
re:largest home

We get that crap in the Philippines a half dozen times a day...
DirkWillemsen
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17 years ago 0 
Look at the flower-like symmetrical `sculptures´ in the left-up corner.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=32.5089655&;lon=13.0862617&z=15&l=0&m=h&show=/8914052/Militery-Factory">wikimapia.org/#lat=32.5089655&;lo ... ry-Factory<!-- m -->
talmisor
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17 years ago 0 
Swastika building
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=10.3314645&;lon=123.9097416&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2&show=/7559058/NAZI-building-in-CEBU">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=10.331464 ... ng-in-CEBU<!-- m -->
stcraftie59
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17 years ago 0 
An airplane, with lensing distortion, and shadow over New Delhi-

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=28.5468305&;lon=77.1752429&z=17&l=0&m=h&tag=44928">wikimapia.org/#lat=28.5468305&;lo ... &tag=44928<!-- m -->
ArnoutSteenhoek
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17 years ago 0 
No Scott this is a plane with 3 wings with different colors ;)
nuclear_ace
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17 years ago 0 
Cool shadow:wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=36.8085331&lon=-76.2901944&z=18...
nitin11188
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17 years ago 0 
@ nuclear
Look it carefully It's a CROWN.
nuclear_ace
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17 years ago 0 
Hehe
seafordian
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17 years ago 0 
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=38.5098677&;lon=-75.9167987&z=18&l=0&m=h&v=2&show=/10311364/Pond-Man">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=38.509867 ... 4/Pond-Man<!-- m -->

Pond Man!!! Enjoy...
Aldi1
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17 years ago 0 
No comment on this one:www.wikimapia.org/#lat=19.1913996&lon=72.9494118&z=17&l...
zoso
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17 years ago 0 
Not exactly an interesting place but a funny google maps screw up:

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=19.5416725&;lon=73.7361145&z=12&l=0&m=b">wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=19.54167 ... 12&l=0&m=b<!-- m -->

Zoom in at the center and the water body aplits into two.
seafordian
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17 years ago 0 
Actually zoso, it doesn't split in two as a screw up, they are just different photos of the lake...one when it is more full and one obviously under drought conditions :-P
zoso
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17 years ago 0 
hmm.. nevertheless..it was quite interesting visual..
google maps usually does not use different images at different zoom levels..Otherwise this was not possible:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=39.1695468&;lon=-76.6677985&z=20&l=0&m=a&v=2">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=39.169546 ... =0&m=a&v=2<!-- m -->

So i guess using different images could count as a minor screw up.. :P
stcraftie59
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17 years ago 0 
zoso- Google maps has 3 different levels in some places.

1. Satellite images- For the extreme zoom out.

2. High level aerial photography- for medium to close zooms.

3. Low level aerial photography- for extreme close zooms. Not every location has these.

Example of #3- Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Zoom = 22

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-33.8910004&;lon=151.2779476&z=22&l=0&m=h&v=2&search=bondi%20beach">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-33.89100 ... di%20beach<!-- m -->
seafordian
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17 years ago 0 
Yes the zoom level and photo quality certainly differ in parts of the world...try zooming in at z=22 in NYC. You don't see people walking on the street...but in Australia, they have a different zoom quality...different strokes in different places.

I mean, some places you cannot even zoom in at z=22! It's not a minor screw up, just a difference in how the photos are taken and pieced together, which, is piecemeal!
ArnoutSteenhoek
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17 years ago 0 
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=51.036486&;lon=13.3109075&z=18&l=0&m=h">wikimapia.org/#lat=51.036486&;lon ... 18&l=0&m=h<!-- m -->
??
1) Bathroom moist
2) Crows
3) Giant ants
4) ...
Lil_Gish
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17 years ago 0 
4) ghosts from the nearby forest?
seafordian
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17 years ago 0 
Hmm someone seriously forgot to clean the lens on that one...it is all over the place near there.
ArnoutSteenhoek
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17 years ago 0 
Remake of the film "Birds" perhaps?
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=51.0320095&;lon=13.2742739&z=18&l=0&m=h">wikimapia.org/#lat=51.0320095&;lo ... 18&l=0&m=h<!-- m -->
dikbrijs
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17 years ago 0 
Shadows of the surrounding trees maybe?
stcraftie59
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17 years ago 0 
Giant bird droppings?
dikbrijs
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17 years ago 0 
@forrestgumprock: you are the UFO-expert. Could this be one?
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=51.372708&;lon=3.5891175&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2">wikimapia.org/#lat=51.372708&;lon ... =0&m=a&v=2<!-- m -->
ArnoutSteenhoek
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17 years ago 0 
Dik, it went back here!
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=52.0874807&;lon=5.1153555&z=21&l=0&m=a&search=utrecht">wikimapia.org/#lat=52.0874807&;lo ... ch=utrecht<!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Utrecht_UFO.jpg">upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ht_UFO.jpg<!-- m -->
bio2935c
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17 years ago 0 
But seriously, those are not the kinds of "flaws" that you would expect to get with modern electronic equipment. And as pointed out, there are other similarly random clumps in the area as well.

I'm inclined to think they must be shadows, simply because I can think of nothing else. At first I thought balloons, but then you'd see the actual balloons somewhere also, so I'm going to think birds now. Flocks of birds can fly in "formations" that can seem to have pretty well-defined edges, especially front edges.
Aldi1
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17 years ago 0 
Finally found my home sweet home village in India: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=29.3740974&;lon=77.3142242&z=12&l=0&m=a&v=2&show=/1964177/hi/Aldi-Village">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=29.374097 ... di-Village<!-- m -->
atom
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17 years ago 0 
What is (or may be): <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=43.3427986&;lon=17.8183007&z=16&l=28&m=a&v=2&show=/9930700/">wikimapia.org/#lat=43.3427986&;lo ... =/9930700/<!-- m --> ? ;-)
allgaiar
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17 years ago 0 
Its worth, to be deleted! :-D Unadequate polygon....
ArnoutSteenhoek
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17 years ago 0 
Along the E-40 in Kazachstan, Majestic Soviet Highway (lost forever?)
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=42.5422043&;lon=70.1937103&z=16&l=0&m=h&v=6">wikimapia.org/#lat=42.5422043&;lo ... =0&m=h&v=6<!-- m -->
Stormcss
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17 years ago 0 
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=51.0315135&;lon=13.2727236&z=18&l=1&m=h">wikimapia.org/#lat=51.0315135&;lo ... 18&l=1&m=h<!-- m -->
its definitely a bug. And looks horrible..
ArnoutSteenhoek
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17 years ago 0 
Stormcss, was posted 8 days ago...
1) Bathroom moist
2) Crows
3) Giant ants
4) ...
Teresa
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17 years ago 0 
I think it is a hoard of locust descending onto the vegetations.
19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
A train derailed

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=-24.5312587&;lon=-68.1790173&z=18&l=3&m=a&show=/10482389/Train-derailed">wikimapia.org/#lat=-24.5312587&;l ... n-derailed<!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=-24.5309414&;lon=-68.1784701&z=17&l=3&m=b">wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=-24.5309 ... 17&l=3&m=b<!-- m -->

I can not select the site in the Beta version :-(
allgaiar
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17 years ago 0 
We have a lot of "my house tags". This is a very special one! :-))
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=29.6081675&;lon=79.3328869&z=18&l=5&m=h&v=2&search=mauerstetten">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=29.608167 ... uerstetten<!-- m -->
Mataglap
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17 years ago 0 
Weird round hill on the coast of New Britain

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-6.2861218&;lon=149.6681213&z=13&l=0&m=a">www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-6.286121 ... 13&l=0&m=a<!-- m -->

Clearly people have made a path to ritually circle it. There are other such hills to the north, try terrain view.
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