Weird road

[Pascal2407]

Just go to:

36°56'03.34'' N 111°28'58,23'' W

and enjoy.

[Steeefan]

it'll be easier to find if you use the following file

[wishboneX]

I´ve got it, it´s a BRIDGE, isn´t it?

hmm, played around a bit with tilting/angle. It IS indeed weird, 90 degrees down......and up........

Is that what you mean? Guess so

Christian

[nuevo]

LOL..
yes it is a bridge. look at the shadow at the dam.

It seems that the bumpmaping doesnt work well in this case.

Greetings from Hamburg
Nuevo

[Ellip]

looks like a rollercoaster for cars ...

[Mysticool]

How can cars drive up that? Its like a vertical drop.

[SimonTheSignGuy]

Obviously cars could not drive over such a bridge. It's a mapping glitch on an otherwise stunning high-res image of the Glen Canyon Dam. Too bad there isn't an equally high-res image of the Navajo Bridge some miles down the Colorado River. Yet ...

[Rwootton]

I think whats going on is the image is drapped over the terrain model (DEM- digital elevation model). Since bridges and other man made objects don't have a ground elevation, the picture of the bridge simply gets draped over the elevation of the bottom of the canyon.

[grav8e]

Having driven over that bridge I can attest to the fact that it is just like any other bridge.

You can tell from the shadow that it is actually a flat roadway sitting on top of an arched truss structure that spans the canyon.

See the attached image for what it actually looks like from the ground level.

[Connum]

I would say it was too **** hot and the bridge melted on that day! ^^

\\edit:
why is the word "d a m n" zensored? O.o

[Steeefan]

good, possible point there...