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wrong size road map

wrong size road map

if you turn on the road layer, you will find that the size of the roads in these 2 rest areas (northern and southern)are very small, definitely wrong!!
Rating of 2.511/25/2008259Google Earth Logo
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Road Houses

Road Houses

A number of houses overlapping the street next to them.
Rating of 311/25/2008176Google Earth Logo
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Houses Falling Over

Houses Falling Over

A couple of houses in Anaheim Hills that look like they're falling over.
Rating of 211/21/2008306Google Earth Logo
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a man wearing hat

a man wearing hat

an interesting picture shows a man wearing hat, and also his braid
Rating of 511/21/2008207Google Earth Logo
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Disappearing Freeway

Disappearing Freeway

Highway 395 seems to disappear for a bit in central California (Probably due to two different satellite images overlapping a bit).
Rating of 411/21/2008148Google Earth Logo
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Ghost Supplies

Ghost Supplies

Looks like a ghost image of building materials next to the Green River onramp in Corona, CA.
Rating of 211/18/2008247Google Earth Logo
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Color Bar

Color Bar

a weird color bar appeared at here
Rating of 511/13/2008458Google Earth Logo
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Wobbly Sports Field

Wobbly Sports Field

Extremely hilly baseball diamonds and soccer field.
Rating of 411/11/2008376Google Earth Logo
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Forest Neighborhood

Forest Neighborhood

Neighborhood of houses overlapping a group of trees. (I imagine this is due to satellite images overlapping one another.)
Rating of 211/10/2008251Google Earth Logo
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Same mapping different resolutions

Same mapping different resolutions

I found this area is covered with 3 different resolutions but actually it's same picture took on 17 Dec,2005. You can figure out that the lower part of the roads are more blur.I cropped an area to show this situation. Maybe it's a bug or something.
Rating of 411/04/2008161Google Earth Logo
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Black Strip near Rouen

Black Strip near Rouen

There is a 1000x170m black strip near Rouen. I have no idea what should be covered here.
Rating of 510/27/2008500Google Earth Logo
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Front part of a car

Front part of a car

Ghost car or just an image bug... you decide
Rating of 410/16/20081,833Google Earth Logo
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Double Image

Double Image

This is a double image of the same airplane on the runway at the airport in Lisbon, Portugal.
Rating of 309/09/2008898Google Earth Logo
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Strange Line

Strange Line

A strange map error near the "Hattenbacher Dreieck"
Rating of 209/07/2008557Google Earth Logo
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Universal Studios Mishap

Universal Studios Mishap

Big terrain error at Universal Studios...check out those hills!
No rating yet08/29/2008881Google Earth Logo
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Freeway Discontinuity

Freeway Discontinuity

This is the I-15 freeway between Nevada and Arizona (north of Las Vegas), and it's a bit misaligned. You can see the "Welcome to Arizona" sign somewhat on the northbound side of the freeway (it's black).
Rating of 1.508/06/2008413Google Earth Logo
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Unusual Color Lakes

Unusual Color Lakes

Two lakes in Nevada that are a strange greenish kind of color.
Rating of 507/29/2008185Google Earth Logo
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Something to Hide

Something to Hide

There are a few of these black marks around this area in Germany
Rating of 1.507/27/20083,040Google Earth Logo
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Cave Rock

Cave Rock

This is Cave Rock on the eastern side of Lake Tahoe. It almost looks like the north-bound side of the road goes nearly over the the top of the thing, and I wonder how any cars manage to get over it...
Rating of 307/27/2008952Google Earth Logo
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secrect place OHIO

secrect place OHIO

odd blacked out square in OHIO
Rating of 407/25/20081,010Google Earth Logo
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Strange glare from solar panels

Strange glare from solar panels

Odd looking glare in a town called Krimpen aan den IJssel in the Netherlands.

One house in the "Aquamarijn" village park has solar panels on the roof.
Rating of 407/24/20082,335Google Earth Logo
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Landslide Situation

Landslide Situation

I hope it never rains on these houses...
Rating of 206/30/20081,136Google Earth Logo
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Wobbly ProLogis

Wobbly ProLogis

This is another ProLogis facility in Anaheim Hills, except it's a bit distorted due to terrain.
No rating yet06/30/2008260Google Earth Logo
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Hillside Mall

Hillside Mall

Here's a mall that's a bit tilted due to the terrain feature, although the customers don't seem to mind considering the number of cars in the parking lot.
Rating of 1.506/29/2008495Google Earth Logo
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Bumpy 405

Bumpy 405

Yet again, a dip in the 405 freeway that will put your shocks to the test.
Rating of 206/26/2008713Google Earth Logo
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