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Mataglap
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17 years ago 0 
A medieval-looking garden and pond with giant lilypads, and WHAT is that to the left? It's even more medieval!

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Mataglap
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17 years ago 0 
A rare surviving example of an asymmetric rail swing bridge, Chicago.

It will never swing again, but it looks like a banjo.

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Mataglap
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17 years ago 0 
A warped "temporary" bridge while the main bridge is upgraded.

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19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
A writing in Atacama Desert.
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amspost
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17 years ago 0 
Hand in the mountain

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bio2935c
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17 years ago 0 
19jp87: the writing would actually have been easier to see withOUT the polygon!
But who made it? What is it made from (if anything)?
GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
Two black lines to the north of Leeds:

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GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
Oh dear, the smaller river doesn't quite get to the sea. Instead it ends up in the River Blyth. Zoom out to see how close to the sea it got.

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Mataglap
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17 years ago 0 
Here the same barge cruising up the Chicago River barge is caught in four different spots, presumably as the photographing airplane made each pass.

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(in the last one it's unloaded)
NorZuk
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17 years ago 0 
Mataglap:
Someone should tell the captain he should go to his employer and beg for at least triple hiss salary.
He have documentation here that he is doing tree jobs at the same time... hehe
GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
Five places:

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Aldi1
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17 years ago 0 
You can see the same phenomenon at the Frankfurt airport with airplanes.
Mataglap
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17 years ago 0 
GeorgeGriffiths, I think that is a different barge; no tyre on the bow.
GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
They could have taken the tyre off. Is this the same one filled with rubbish?

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Mataglap
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17 years ago 0 
Not possible: tyre barge is right next to non-tyre barge. It was filled with gravel being dropped off at a concrete mixing facility.
forrestgumprock
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17 years ago 0 
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South Tower of the Oakland Bay Bridge
GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge leads into San Francisco Bay:

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GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
Loads and loads of cars, how do you get out of here? You probably don't!

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NorZuk
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17 years ago 0 
<Loads and loads of cars, how do you get out of here? You probably don't!>
To me it looks like a car scrap yard... hehe
19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
@ bio2935c: Mean you to the polygon or the writing?
bio2935c
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17 years ago 0 
I meant the actual object on the ground.
GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
An interesting plane wreck.

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NorZuk
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17 years ago 0 
Can you see the telephone kiosk in this exactly taged place?
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hehe
ceyockey
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17 years ago 0 
Potential interesting place-of-the-day: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/5263/Tucson-Airplane-Graveyard-AMARC-...">www.wikimapia.org/5263/Tucson-Ai ... t-Boneyard<!-- m --> . Zoom in and you see some fascinating things.
bio2935c
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17 years ago 0 
Small wonder they want to discontinue the kiosk. It's tagged at the edge of a field behind some bushes!
19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
@ bio2935c: The description of the writing say that it was created by a poet. I have not more information.
19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
@ ceyockey: A great collection's aircraft.
Charliee_Foxtro
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17 years ago 0 
@ ceyockey: That's the U.S. Air Force boneyard on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. It may be called a "boneyard", but almost all the aircraft could be brought up to duty status in a very short time. Interesting thing to note is that if all those planes were to be brought up, it would be the third largest air force in the world!
GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
Weird shaped building:

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Charliee_Foxtro
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17 years ago 0 
Not sure who in the U.S. followed the Scott and Laci Peterson case, but I found the house while mapping out the streets in Modesto, CA. For some unknown reason, the media was all over this house for months and is still a hot topic in and around Modesto.

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ceyockey
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17 years ago 0 
new category created = 'notable by news'

This last place indicated by Charliee Foxtro prompted me to create a new category 'notable by news', for which I wrote a definition that indicates that such places are interesting by dint of their having received significant news coverage and that they would not likely otherwise be an 'interesting place' but for this coverage. I think this is a pretty reasonable sub-category for 'interesting place' and until there is a hierarchical category treatment, I would suggest dual-tagging to both 'interesting place' and 'notable by news' (I struggled to find a good term there ... 'newsworthy' captures half of the concept).
ceyockey
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17 years ago 0 
Ghost plane - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/11081730/Ghost-plane">www.wikimapia.org/11081730/Ghost-plane<;!-- m -->

Another ghost plane - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/11081735/Another-Ghost-plane">www.wikimapia.org/11081735/Another-Ghost-plane<;!-- m -->

Though these should probably be deleted as "transients" (i.e. like a car driving down the street or a boat plying the water), but this is a darned interesting effect. I think in an earlier posting someone noted "ghost buildings"?
bio2935c
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17 years ago 0 
I figure they're either stealth jumbos or where Google stitched two images together (but not very well).
ElementoGeo
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17 years ago 0 
Look at this mountain, in Australia. The famous "Ayers Rock".

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amspost
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17 years ago 0 
thanks for sharing @ElementoGeo,
amspost
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17 years ago 0 
Maybe someone from India can tag this

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JAT86
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17 years ago 0 
Brain-like terrain:

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bio2935c
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17 years ago 0 
@amspost: It's been tagged before, and deleted.
ZacharyKent
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17 years ago 0 
Not so interesting places. :-(
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forrestgumprock
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17 years ago 0 
I found those interesting I mean the first one you saw cars! (OMJ!!!!!) and the second you saw a thingy that goes around it circles that you see in playgrounds! (OMJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) And a tree....
19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
A river upper a river
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Martin67
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17 years ago 0 
When I "flew" over this place and saw the picture, I thought at first that the "Panoramio Layer" was "ON" AND the picture had flipped!!!

None of the above, it's the Satellite image AND the perfect polygon around the place tag that give the "picture effect" :-)

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Cool isn't it?
19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
Perfect squares with borders made of trees.

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amspost
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17 years ago 0 
At first I thought that some Extra-Terrestrial visitors have created this, but they ended up to be farms

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Martin67
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17 years ago 0 
@amspost
For more info:
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amspost
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17 years ago 0 
thanks martin, thats why wikimapia open a window on the world, to see new things and know more things.
GeorgeGriffiths
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17 years ago 0 
Look at this lake:

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Mataglap
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17 years ago 0 
GeorgeGriffiths, that's a nice example of eutrophication.
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19jp87
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17 years ago 0 
The largest island on an island on an island in the world.
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bio2935c
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17 years ago 0 
19jp87: do you have a reference for that claim? (the WP article is not about the island)
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