How To: Install GoogleEarth, and then paste the coordinates in the search box and hit enter. It's best to max out all the settings for GoogleEarth and run it in OpenGL mode. It's the fastest, and best. Also, it's a good idea to exaggerate the terrain by a factor of 3. I've found this replicates the look of my local mountains the closest. The default is definitely not high enough. Make sure you increase the cache to 512MB so you're not always downloading commonly viewed areas (e.g. your house) and set your detail area to either 256 or 512, so the image files download faster.
Huge Pizzas: 32°39'18.21"N by 117° 6'58.58"W using GoogleEarth.
Poorly masked nuclear power plant: 32°48'2.71"N by 115°32'29.62"W
Plane taking off from Sky Harbor Intl. You can see how massive the Indian highway decorations are underneath (turtle): 33°25'49.45"N by 111°58'45.86"W
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I'm going to edit the original post with whatever nutty stuff I find. If it's been posted before on that google maps sight seeing site, it won't be posted.
Synergy wrote:I found some sort of small plane flying over I95 near Dale City in Virginia...looks like it's an unmanned aircraft.
38°38'00.03"N, 77°17'26.27"W
It's either a civil plane, or a police 'bear'. It appears to be heading in for a landing at Manassas Airport, which is at 38°43'20.55"N by 77°30'50.11"W, or really any number of the dozens of small airports that surround Dulles.
If you go east of Beijing until you get to a lake, and look almost straight north, a bit east, from Tianjin (the lake is north of there), you can see a bit of the wall northeast the lake
edit: a little clarification... look far nort of Tianjin. Tianjin is south of Beijing. You can triangulate the general area by going north from Tianjin and east from Beijing where you'll see a lake
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