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Does anybody else find themselves wasting (?) hours looking at the planet through google maps? I think it might be my new obsession. I can't help myself. A mention of a place I don't know and I'm google-mapping it and, before I know it, have distracted myself for a long time. Usually time I can't afford. ;~P
But I can't express how enamoured I am of this planet, and how pretty it is. The colours and shapes... I can look at them forever!
I was reading a news article this morning in which there was a reference to Lake Titicaca, and I realised, despite knowing the name really well, I had no idea where it was or what it looked like. Enter google maps. And, as per my usual style, I looked around a bit and found this pretty place -
...and ending up spending an hour trying to find the name of this body of water. The best I can do is tell you that it's in Bolivia, south of Lake Titicaca, and west of Lake Poopo`. Why doesn't google maps label water? I've had this problem looking up rivers too. Bad googlemaps!
But isn't it pretty?!
But I can't express how enamoured I am of this planet, and how pretty it is. The colours and shapes... I can look at them forever!
I was reading a news article this morning in which there was a reference to Lake Titicaca, and I realised, despite knowing the name really well, I had no idea where it was or what it looked like. Enter google maps. And, as per my usual style, I looked around a bit and found this pretty place -
...and ending up spending an hour trying to find the name of this body of water. The best I can do is tell you that it's in Bolivia, south of Lake Titicaca, and west of Lake Poopo`. Why doesn't google maps label water? I've had this problem looking up rivers too. Bad googlemaps!
But isn't it pretty?!
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Zooming down on the Eiffel Tower.
Trying to work out which Maldive I stayed on!
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I was looking at the Islands I honeymooned on back in '85 a couple of nights ago! XD You can zoom in on Dunk Island, but Bedarra is still a blur. ;~P
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The pic of our house/area is really old; c2005. Bridges and schools have been built since it was taken!
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You used to be able to zoom in all the way on google moon and it was cheese, but I just can't seem to get it to work anymore.
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And you can bet I'll be watching the Florida theme park where they're building HP world. ;~)
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That's a sediment trail coming out from the river. The water slows down when it hits that bay dropping the sediment out of its hold.
If you like images like this (and of course have plenty of time to waste. Yeah right, it sucks being a grown up) go to http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com
He takes amazing "Earth-from-above" images!
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Is it wrong that as an adult I still want to put a huge world map up on my bedroom wall floor-to-ceiling like in that Joseph Fiennes movie? Hm.
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I love the place. I spent hours the other day looking up the area I was born in, finding my grandparents place and where we used to live and looking at the pier.
So much fun.
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I would always go look at my house first, and then go to Europe and stuff. :P
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Your image is a salar (salt pan) situated immediately north from the bigger and dryer salar de Uyuni. On this photo, the water was relatively high without much salt. The google earth image shows dried parts with a white salt crust. Also, someone uploaded a picture in Google Earth and labelled it at the Coipasa salar which seems to be the correct denomination.
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Just saw this post...
*sporfle!*
You know, in French this means "little little caca/poop" :D Win!