I want to go to Tarm Basin, West China, with those plump sand dunes piled up like throw pillows, and the single, rule-straight road hurrying through their opulant midst like a timid visitor from the planet Geometry. posted by Faze at 4:33 PM on March 20, 2010 [4 favorites]
Is your "Google Maps" link supposed to go to a golf course in McMinnvile, OR? posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:40 PM on March 20, 2010 [1 favorite]
I like to combine Google Maps with Flickr. Like this picture from his blog left me wondering what that landscape looks like from the ground. I would have liked to have found some snapshots from Venetie Landing, what looks to be the closest named place, but I didn't expect to find anything this good, and maybe this one gives a good impression of that color water. posted by nervousfritz at 4:41 PM on March 20, 2010 [2 favorites]
Horace: not exactly the golf course, but good catch :) posted by aberrant at 4:43 PM on March 20, 2010
I did something like this a few years ago, taking screenshots from Google Earth that eventually became my screensaver. This was before Google acquired high-res imagery of most of the world, so while their globe was less detailed, it was much more aesthetically pleasing. I think if you revisit the same locations now most of them are patchwork satellite photos, which kind of ruins the effect.
You can see the rest of them in my Picasa album. Some of them are geotagged so you can find the original on Google Maps to compare. posted by Rhaomi at 6:00 PM on March 20, 2010 [6 favorites]
wow, these are beautiful. posted by Joad at 8:31 PM on March 20, 2010
The one labeled 'North Slope, Alaska' looks like it was done by Gustav Klimt. Don't you think? posted by fontor at 8:52 PM on March 20, 2010
The one that got me was the Bonneville Salt Flats. I figured the roads were tiny little scratches in the ground that you might miss if you weren't paying carefull attention. Instead one of them is I-80. posted by Kid Charlemagne at 9:49 PM on March 20, 2010
Oh, thank god for $5 barriers to entry.
From the comments:
you’re a massive faggot.
1, get a proper website with some actual original content
2, stop looking like a massive faggot in your avatar
The Northwestern Quebec one is amazing. It looks exactly like the land was just schmeared out with a spatula. Actually, I suspect that is what happened, with a glacier taking the place of the spatula. posted by Rock Steady at 3:32 PM on March 21, 2010
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