Showstopper bug in google maps...

bulliver · 09-28-2006, 11:15 AM

This was posted to full-disclosure, and I thought it was interesting enough to post here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=...,0.006738&om=1

jlliagre · 09-28-2006, 11:51 AM

Ha ha ha, those good old bugs are back again !

carlosinfl · 09-28-2006, 04:28 PM

That is a large bug!

pixellany · 09-28-2006, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Carlwill

That is a large bug!

Or perhaps a small field.....

My hunch is that this got put into a file late at night by a very bored image-processing operator--I wonder how many others are lurking out there....

Daws · 09-29-2006, 07:30 AM

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My hunch is that this got put into a file late at night by a very bored image-processing operator

Actually most people think it is a thrips, a v small bug that was squished between the glass plate and film during processing ... or a giant alien ...

sundialsvcs · 09-29-2006, 07:58 AM

Rumor has it that during WW2 some of the arial photographs included various bits of doctoring - bits of self-expression in what is otherwise a numbingly boring job.

pixellany · 09-29-2006, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Daws

Actually most people think it is a thrips, a v small bug that was squished between the glass plate and film during processing ... or a giant alien ...

film????
glass plate??

Seriously, I don't know exactly how they do it now, but I would have thought that Google would just link up to the digital files....

Daws · 09-29-2006, 09:38 AM

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Seriously, I don't know exactly how they do it now, but I would have thought that Google would just link up to the digital files....

I'd agree but I don't know the first thing about how they process the images nowadays. But the squishing would explain why you can see the bugs entrails/excrement in a pool behind it. Lovely.