Wired article on Google maps

I just read this article on Wired on google maps. The article basically states that Googles satellite maps captures unusual events - a 747 landing in Tokyo airport, a icebreaker pushing a submarine...kinda cool. I'm going to spend some time looking for this stuff now - the burning man link didnt resolve for me. I'll try to post the URL's to what I find. I wonder what the most unusual pictures are? Anyone else have neat links out there?

The other thing the article mentions is that every 18 months or so the images are refreshed - so maybe the tsunami picture is still there.

Update: I mistakenly thought I would find international pictures in Googles maps database but the article says that satellite images tend to have these pictures, not googles specifically. I tried zooming in on Sri Lanka, and after a bit, the image failed to resolve, so I guess the pictures you can zoom in on are mostly in the U.S. But the article has a link to the cool pictures such as the icebreaker, the 747 landing etc...

Update II: Brandon commented on this post and highlighted this very cool site: https://www.shreddies.org/gmaps

Shaykat

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 14, 2005
  This site has many interesting images from Google maps: http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
• Anonymous
  April 14, 2005
  NASA's World Wind program appears to use the same satellite data that Google uses, with the benefit that you can zoom in even further. It's an awesome program; give it a try.
• Anonymous
  April 14, 2005
  Nice, I live in Toronto and was able to see the CN Tower besides the Sky Dome, very cool.
• Anonymous
  April 14, 2005
  Cool. I had posted an article about this too. There's a festival going on in my neighborhood on the day the satellite image was taken.
  http://derekgulbranson.com/2005/04/10/google-maps-satellite-image-of-castro-street-fair/