Someone got a little creative with their land, knowing what Google maps does.

Note: Not exactly a family-friendly map location. You've been warned...

LOL

Funny stuff.

<font color=skyblue>I tried to find it with Google Earth outside that link, to find out if it was real or faked on the picture, but I cannot get any closer than within a couple large cities of it. I was trying to follow the names of the roads, but I just had no luck. It is somewhere in Great Britain, North of Birmingham...</font>

<font color=8fbc8f>There are thousands of creative artists out of work! Then, there are people with too much time on thier hands, but not enough skill. At least one should be able to use layers, and blurs prior to attempting something of this nature.
One of my personal favorites.</font>

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/212...2257JOQN_w.jpg

[ 02-11-2006, 04:18 PM: Message edited by: Felix The Assassin ]

Actualy, it seems to be made of bales of hay, 'artisticaly' lined up. No photoshop involved. Really. Go see. Coordinates 53.53874N 1.346804W.

[ 02-11-2006, 05:52 PM: Message edited by: andrewas ]

Prime time to bring it up...anybody play with Google Earth any? It's a great program...I just wish it was available offline...

One of these days, it would be nice to have a COMPLETE photographic map of the earth...

This is very CLOSE to that goal, but isn't very high resolution for some areas.

Actualy, it seems to be made of bales of hay, 'artisticaly' lined up. No photoshop involved. Really. Go see. Coordinates 53.53874N 1.346804W. </font>[/QUOTE]<font color=8fbc8f>Damn, don't make me...Go into ....
Thou you are good with hardware!!!!!
As a amatur photographer, and one who can hold their own in GIMP, or that overly priced PS software, I will give you three hints.

1. Google copyright transposed underneath the second layer of the u to c, and c to k. Now look at the rest of the picture. Not a coincedence, a slight of hand!
2. Shadow, look at the shadow of the trees, the power-line tower, the cars, and then look at the letters. The natural shadow flows from base to upper left. The letters however, flow from center to lower right. A terrible mistake!
3. The finale, go down to the next field, and look at those "hay bales"!

Understand that, Google has NOT done anything out of the ordinary here. For years I have viewed the earth from above using different types of satellite imagery, some from military grade, some from scientific grade, and others from various terra servers. Sadly, the 'free' version of terra server for the UK, does not zoom in to this detail.

Now, the question is, who has a satellite view of this area other than the google view? </font>

By Google Earth, .6 miles away, there's a crop circle...I'd be willing to bet that it's local pranksters after said "occurance"s

I've gotta disagree with you on this one, Felix, mostly by the circumstantial evidence of the crop circles. There's no google copyright on the image in Google Earth...

Finally, after careful examination...Felix, the letters are in NEGATIVE. They're in grain that has been laid down, not hay bales on top of a cut grain field...which makes the shadows consistent.

Yep. It's the work of some pranksters, in response to that crop circle to the South West.

I searched in google.co.uk for Billingley, which is a city just east of this spot. It came back. I panned around a lot as well. Anyone who'd fake this would be duplicating all of google maps in the UK...

I found the area on several other maps. It's near Rotherham and Goldthorpe.

Just couldn't find another satellite image... anyone know where one might be available?

<font color=8fbc8f>Hold up, One of us is confused here.
Crop circle? No, no comparison.
Google copyright? Correct, looking at the whole, it does not appear with Google earth, only on the direct link.
Letters, yes, look at the tree. From center base, the shadow moves up and left, or North by West or NW. Within the letters, the shadow moves South by East or SE. This can be exemplified by looking into the inner part of the letters. Right, they are not hay bales.
Pranksters, Yes, most certainly! But of which genere?</font>

What are you guys arguing about? This is an official google website, and you can zoom out of that picture as much as you want and see the whole world.

Are you saying google faked this or what?

I'm saying that google didn't fake it...that some local yokels wrote an explicit message to the "aliens" who sent them a message with the nearby crop circle.

I'm also saying the letters are in NEGATIVE, or, to use the more proper art-term, RELIEF. Thus, the shadows would point in the right direction (NW), as they are shadows of the rims of the letters.

Look a little more carefully, Felix...

i have google earth.. waay cool. i can see my place in aussie and in philippines (although in philippines its really really bad resolution)

my place in sydney
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31...dneymyhome.jpg

and in manila
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31...manilahome.jpg

note: of course i wouldnt show you exactly where i live [img]tongue.gif[/img] but in sydney .. i live right beside school which is quite visible. :D

.. now if you want to see something really interesting:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01...ng_car_one.jpg

came out in several news. apparently, some google earth fanatics of the paranormal actually found that and posted it in the net.

link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/

a more likely explanation in this link:
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archi...g_car_not.html

you guys should get google earth and post where you live :D

I found it from Google Earth. :D

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/5946/fuck5lr.th.jpg

Felix, only Google and possibly whoever owns the satellite could possibly fake that. And both have better things to do. I say it's real.