desu
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| I read about the case every once in awhile - just like once a year I visit the Great War website (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="greatwar.nl">greatwar.nl<;!-- m -->) to read about it and view the pictures - and find it haunting. I figured with all the press the case has received over the ensuing years, it would not be out of place to add it here. |
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Aldi1
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This is the strangest tag I've ever seen:
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stcraftie59
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It is a trash tag...
I came across a tag a few days ago where a user commented that he has been using this site (WM) since 1995.
Hehe. |
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kencummings
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longhill
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| That's one I have never seen. It almost looks like the image was retouched. Anyone know what this is? |
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Carneyfex
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Martin67
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Yeah, I hate it when the picture is that bad Carneyfex...
"Wild optical patterns"
Weird patterns indeed as from the ground there seems to be nothing "special" <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="tinyurl.com/ykh3svk">tinyurl.com/ykh3svk<;!-- m -->
Maybe the owner sold the topsoil and all that was left was what we're seeing now
from the air cause the ground picture is "older"? |
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gatorbreath
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Wikisoriano
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stcraftie59
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>>Hiding a neighborhood in Holland<<
So that's where my giant camouflaged umbrella went!!! :oD |
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Wikisoriano
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>>So that's where my giant camouflaged umbrella went!!! :oD <<
I thought that it was the house of Arnout, who camouflaged it :) |
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Martin67
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ArnoutSteenhoek
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stcraftie59
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kirakira
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| I don't know why I'm doing this, but I've been following by eye the utility corridors of our town, marking the water treatment plants, pumping stations and electrical substations as I go. Everything north of Palatka leads to this JEA (Jacksonville Electric Authority) power plant grouping: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=30.4268062&;lon=-81.5525007&z=15&l=0&m=b&v=1">wikimapia.org/#lat=30.4268062&;lo ... =0&m=b&v=1<!-- m --> and I followed the JEA power lines south past Palatka, growing smaller as they separate by each substation, until they finally meet the high-voltage lines from FPL (Florida Power & Light). It's interesting to get that little glimpse into the power grid. I was impressed with how efficiently the structure has grown with the development; I was previously unaware of how thoroughly and complex the utility corridors grid our town, even crossing broad waterways and stretching deeply through the rural areas. |
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sashabolgar
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| look at this plase (airport in Japan,Kitakyushu) -like travel using time traveling mashine :D ....one part -finished,other one-still not . <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=33.8422611&;lon=131.0331202&z=16&l=0&m=s&v=9">wikimapia.org/#lat=33.8422611&;lo ... =0&m=s&v=9<!-- m --> |
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Martin67
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Same country Fukuoka <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=33.5837732&;lon=130.4158473&z=19&l=0&m=s&v=9">wikimapia.org/#lat=33.5837732&;lo ... =0&m=s&v=9<!-- m -->
I wonder who's in charge of quality control at Google sometimes... (why adding those kind
of imagery when they do not fit with the rest of a sector???) |
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abbascon
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talmisor
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desu
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This piece of technonerdery may not be interesting to the average person, but it does have an interesting story attached to it:
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kencummings
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Aldi1
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Take a look at the lake. It had a pp polygon. I added about 40 dots to make it look halfway decent!
The old poly is still visible for a while. |
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Aldi1
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ZacharyKent
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A tag nearby to what Aldi1 just posted. I also find this tag interesting, now that we cant delete it. (With the bureaucracy with the new deletion option) But its interesting that this person owns many houses under this polygon.
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Profcard
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kencummings
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wgsj
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Profcard
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| WOW, it's really srange wgsj, I see it the first time. Probably google imagery is bad :) |
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wgsj
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| Profcard, I think the picture that I quoted above is one of the strangest I've ever seen and one of the best. ;-) |
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stcraftie59
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How is this possible? Look at the place below (warning- bad polygon!). Now check out the user that made it- ihatemypetrock. Now look at his "user actions".
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[b:2n67qv8b]¡¿WTF?![/b:2n67qv8b] |
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Aldi1
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Well, Scott, there's all kinds of strange animals in God's big zoo!
And BTW reality exceeds your wildest imagination! |
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bio2935c
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| Wasn't there a time when everything was being listed as "polygon change", no matter what actually happened? |
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renkessler
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bio2935c
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On a planet with two suns, a green one and a blue one, you get shadows like that. :)
Either that or there was a time delay between acquiring the green and blue images; but that's so boring. |
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stcraftie59
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| Actually, that is an aberration, caused by the reflexion of the plane. |
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renkessler
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| I was hoping it might be a ghost plane. |
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davechiew
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Ren, Scott said aberration - not apparition.
:) |
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renkessler
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That's getting into the spirit, Dave!
Donuts and coffee are on me. |
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Horology
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As a relative newbie, of about 7 weeks, I am still sometimes unsure about what kind of information to add to a new polygon to make it interesting.
The following bridge in the town I grew up in is a case in point:
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The commentary in the tag to me is kind of interesting, even if the information is in a way trivial. Is it OK or even desired to add this kind of information to wikimapia?
Comments welcome.
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RK77
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I believe Horology's link above leads to a non-functional version of Wikimapia (perhaps what remains of the original Classic?).
Anyhoo, here's a functional link: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=46.7600985&;lon=7.6270571&z=19&l=0&m=b">wikimapia.org/#lat=46.7600985&;lo ... 19&l=0&m=b<!-- m -->
In response to his question, I find a paragraph full of good information is sufficient. As long as it references the place its describing and doesn't veer off too far into superfluousness, it should be just fine.
IMO, of course! |
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renkessler
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Yes, problem with link, and yes, it is a good description.
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Horology
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To Renkessler
1. Thanks for the feedback.
2. My original link seems to work for me and take me to the right view, to the same view as the link provided by RK77.
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dikbrijs
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"My original link seems to work for me and take me to the right view, to the same view as the link provided by RK77."
Yes, same view. But I cannot click the place to open the box and read the description. |
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stcraftie59
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renkessler
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| God love classic, except when trying to clean India. |
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ZacharyKent
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Martin67
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kencummings
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Brule Lake in Minnesota is one of those very rare lakes drained by two different river systems. In this case The Temperance River connects to the West end of the lake and the South Brule River drains the East end. See below.
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