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Making an omelet in Google Maps
March 12, 2010 11:29 AM   Subscribe

Christoph Niemann makes clever use of the Google Maps aesthetic to create some interesting pictorials. [via] [previously]
posted by d1rge (15 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite

An omelette with no cheese? That is not an omelette.

Great images, though. Very witty.
posted by arcticwoman at 11:56 AM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]


Some of those are quite clever. And some of them remind me of unfertilized eggs traveling through fallopian tubes.
posted by MexicanYenta at 12:05 PM on March 12, 2010


"Chewing gum"... (Huh?)...

(* light bulb *)

(Laugh out loud)

Brilliant!
posted by Mike D at 12:15 PM on March 12, 2010


I love the Casablanca one.
posted by kenko at 12:22 PM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]


That's pretty sweet! Any idea how he so accurately mimicked the style?
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 12:30 PM on March 12, 2010


Heh. Nice chuckle to end the work week with. Thanks.
posted by marxchivist at 1:25 PM on March 12, 2010


I was hoping this would come up on metafilter, can someone explain the island to me?
posted by treeshar at 1:45 PM on March 12, 2010


clever guy.
posted by crystalsparks at 2:18 PM on March 12, 2010


can someone explain the island to me?

Which one? This one is life: you were born, you repeat week after week until you die. (Weekend roads are white, weekday roads are yellow.) This one's a battery icon with one "bar" left. Wrong Island is Long Island rotated 180 degrees.
posted by kirkaracha at 2:27 PM on March 12, 2010


Actually it's flipped horizontally rather than rotated.
posted by kirkaracha at 2:28 PM on March 12, 2010


I wonder if "double fudge chocolate highway" was a purposeful double entendre.
posted by desjardins at 3:03 PM on March 12, 2010


Terrific post! I love people who repurpose everyday aesthetics like this. Thanks!
posted by salishsea at 3:07 PM on March 12, 2010


Excellent stuff!
posted by TwoWordReview at 3:41 PM on March 12, 2010


Any idea how he so accurately mimicked the style?

Helvetica + Google Maps color palette.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:14 PM on March 12, 2010


im lost somewhere between the salt and pepper
posted by just_another_crowd at 10:41 PM on March 12, 2010


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