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[goodcow]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=washi...28,-77.009075&spn=0.008315,0.015299&t=k&hl=en

 

[galeninjapan]

Thats where olimario lives.

 

[StoOgE]

Amazon world Headquarters, and its blurred so that you wont try to have your way with the building.

 

[goodcow]

Amazon world Headquarters, and its blurred so that you wont try to have your way with the building.

No, no, no, that's here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=amazo...3,-122.298775&spn=0.008883,0.017531&t=k&hl=en

 

[Vlad]

It's late so forgive me if you were being sarcastic or something, but that's the US Capitol building.

 

[LowTecky]

Maybe it reveals several hidden roof-exits that they dont want Sam Fisher knowing about.

 

[goodcow]

It's late so forgive me if you were being sarcastic or something, but that's the US Capitol building.

So they blur that out, but not the White House?

 

[B'z-chan]

God there is a freeway that close to the building? thats some thinking there.

while were at it whats up with this? its near that area and is also pixelated

Its a blured area Left and up a little from the whitehouse. Looks like some park or something.

 

[galeninjapan]

If thats the capitol building, why the hell blur it? Its not like we can google the damn building for pictures.

 

[Anthropic]

So they blur that out, but not the White House?

IIRC, if you look at the White House, they've touched up the photo so you don't actually see anything on the roof.

 

[aoi tsuki]

script kiddie terrorists am cry

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Area 51 isn't blurred out. Take that, mentally ill conspiracy theorists!

 

[NohWun]

So they blur that out, but not the White House?

Actually, the roof of the White House & the adjacent buildings are painted out.

Don't know why the different treatments, though.

 

[NohWun]

Area 51 isn't blurred out. Take that, mentally ill conspiracy theorists!

But how do you know it isn't doctored up?

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you!

 

[kgHavok23]

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

But how do you know it isn't doctored up?

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you!

OMFG UR RITE! JESUS CHRIST IT'S ALL A SCAM...but how do I know you aren't trying to fuck me over by telling me this? Maybe it really is area 51, and the government's banking on its pawns--like you--to convince the nuts--like me--that area 51's been doctored when it really hasn't. The only way I can find out for sure is by infiltration. Godspeed, jackass. Pray we never cross paths in real life, mindless drone.

 

[Guzim]

:lol :lol :lol

Nice.

 

[NohWun]

...Pray we never cross paths in real life, mindless drone.

After that outburst, I surely will

 

[Templar Wizard]

post the AREA51 co-ordinates and lets take a peek then.

 

[NohWun]

God there is a freeway that close to the building? thats some thinking there.

while were at it whats up with this? its near that area and is also pixelated

Its a blured area Left and up a little from the whitehouse. Looks like some park or something.

Finally found what you're talking about.
First, hit "map" instead of satellite, then type the street into Google Search:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_One_Observatory_Circle

 

[retardboy]

Try terraserver and see if it's blurred out on theirs.

 

[Space Age Playboy]

I guess the Government doesn't want people to know what it looks like.

 

[NohWun]

post the AREA51 co-ordinates and lets take a peek then.

Google yields:

1. Area 51, in the most literal sense, is a block of land 6 miles north-to-south by 10 miles east-to-west, bordered by the Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range on the northwest, north, east, and south, and by the Nevada Test Site on the southwest. The designation, "Area 51," appears on the peripheral portion of Nevada Test Site maps in the 1950s and 1960s. Area 51 is bounded, approximately, by longitude 115š45' and 115š56', and latitude and 36š12.5 and 37š17.5'. (Actual boundaries are in the township/range system.)

So you can use: ?ll=37.25,-115.75
(approximately)

 

[GG-Duo]

That building is not blurred out. It's constructued entirely of large, painted, cubic blocks.

 

[Space Age Playboy]

Niagara University is also blurred out like that.

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

area 51 isn't blurred out because it's not being used for the same type of top-secret work it used to be. with all the publicity its gotten over the years, do you really think they'd have kept the same facility running? theres several more places in the area, most of which are completely hidden under mountains and hillsides, that are far more "secret" than area 51 is anymore.

and for the record, I already posted Area51 in the "post where you live on google maps!" thread.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

all of the nyc buildings are gone, all you see is their shadows...

 

[demon]

Maybe there's just some policy where you're not allowed to take satallite images of the White House and/or other certain buildings at high resolution. That'd be my guess.

 

[pestul]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37,-115&ll=36.979723,-114.968748&spn=0.162735,0.250626&t=k&hl=en

Doesn't seem to let you zoom in really far though..

 

[RaymondCarver]

That's somebody's really cool Megagolopis.



Million Dollar Code, baby. I could just see a disaster happening. There'd be a large lizard terrorizing the city, bitmapping everything he stopmed on.

 

[Nemrael]

I thought this: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.266312,-115.807915&spn=0.185738,0.253372&t=k&hl=en was Area 51, aka Groom Lake?

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Area 51 isn't blurred out. Take that, mentally ill conspiracy theorists!

They won't need to until satellites get better at seeing underground!

That building is not blurred out. It's constructued entirely of large, painted, cubic blocks.

The US government is also the Lego corporation? :O

 

[The Bookerman]

They don't want to lend a hand to terrorists who would use google maps to do their planning work.

 

[madman13x]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37,-115&ll=37.650146,-115.806885&spn=0.125999,0.176468&t=k&hl=en
The hell are these things???

 

[Sullichin]

I dunno, but here are some more:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.670258,-115.995712&spn=0.086002,0.124969&t=k&hl=en

 

[olimario]

I saw some of those driving through Colorado and New Mexico. They're for farming, I think. Or secret alien bunkers.

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37,-115&ll=37.650146,-115.806885&spn=0.125999,0.176468&t=k&hl=en
The hell are these things???

Olimario's right, those circles the result of agriculture irrigation. In the desert, the most effective way to irrigate land is to do so in a circle, with the sprinkler in its center.

 

[madman13x]

Ok, that makes sense, but you never know, they could be GROWING ALIENS!!!!11one

 

[pestul]

I thought this: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.266312,-115.807915&spn=0.185738,0.253372&t=k&hl=en was Area 51, aka Groom Lake?

Yeah, should have noted that mine wasn't due to the lack of runways.. And the fact that there's a normal asphalt highway running right beside it. :lol

 

[fallout]

They don't want to lend a hand to terrorists who would use google maps to do their planning work.

I doubt that Google blurred them. They were probably blurred before being acquired.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

They don't want to lend a hand to terrorists who would use google maps to do their planning work.

"Well, guys, we were going to bomb the Capitol... but it turns out there's just some big blocks there. We're back to friggin' square one."

 

[Nemrael]

Speaking of google maps, has everyone seen this cool website that links to interesting sights?

http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/index.php

 

[Dilbert]

There are plenty of other locations which aren't blurred which would appear to be far more sensitive than the White House.

 

[fallout]

There are plenty of other locations which aren't blurred which would appear to be far more sensitive than the White House.

Probably something to do with the fact that the data seems to be collected from various different sources.

 

[goodcow]

There are plenty of other locations which aren't blurred which would appear to be far more sensitive than the White House.

Such as my house.

 

[Anthropic]

There are plenty of other locations which aren't blurred which would appear to be far more sensitive than the White House.

I think it's just that they don't want people knowing the configuration of the antenna(s) and missiles on the roof.

 

[Dilbert]

I think it's just that they don't want people knowing the configuration of the antenna(s) and missiles on the roof.

If those items are routinely visible, I don't see how you could keep ANYONE from knowing the exact equipment up there through means other than satellites. Further, I'm not convinced that there ARE any special items on the roof of the White House which you'd have to keep from visual inspection.

 

[fallout]

If those items are routinely visible, I don't see how you could keep ANYONE from knowing the exact equipment up there through means other than satellites. Further, I'm not convinced that there ARE any special items on the roof of the White House which you'd have to keep from visual inspection.

We've used satellite reconnaissance to try and find the trillion dollar bill, but all we've been able to ascertain is that it's not on the roof.

 

[Drozmight]

There are snipers and shit on top of the white house.

 

[ShadowRed]

I think it's just that they don't want people knowing the configuration of the antenna(s) and missiles on the roof.

HUh how would knowing the configuration of the antennas and or missles make it easier to attack? Also if someone had the means to attack the US Capitol and or the White House wouldn't they also have the means to acquire Russian or European sattilite pictures, that probably aren't pixilated out.