Google Maps forces Navy to redesign swastika building
Quite some time back, I came across this Swastika-shaped building via Google Maps, and posted the screengrab in my Flickr account. Since then, it became one of my most popular Flickr pictures, since strange stuff like this can become quickly viral. Loads of people (16,000+) have viewed the photo’s page, and then various journalists contacted me and posted the photo on news stories in Europe and elsewhere. Here it is:
(click to view swastika photo profile page)
I researched the building and found it was a Navy building, apparently built unintentionally in the shape of a Nazi Swastika in California. This was built way before people anticipated the general public would be viewing buildings from the sky all that much, but now the easy accessibility of viewing satellite pics from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Mapquest, Microsoft Live Maps, and other utilities have made birds-eye-viewing all too common. I photo-blogged the info I researched on the Flickr page, and quite a few people commented and favorited the unusual picture over time.
Today, CNN reported on the swastika building, and they added one really interesting new detail: (more…)
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Posted by Chris of Silvery on 09/26/2007
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Filed under: Google, Maps aerial-images, aerial-photos, Google-Maps, Mapquest, online-maps, Satellite-Images, Satellite-Photos, swastika-building, Yahoo!-Maps
“Roofvertising” mentioned in the news
Greg Sterling and I were quoted in a news story in yesterday’s USAToday by Craig Wilson in an article titled “Shout a message from the rooftops to the world“, along with Google Earth’s Chikai Ohazama. The article is about how people are increasingly trying to use Google Maps and other online mapping systems to communicate messages or display ads through them. People place the messages on rooftops or other ground surfaces which may be seen via the satellite pix or aerial photos in those interfaces.
Rooftop Ads or “Roofvertising” is becoming more common
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Posted by Chris of Silvery on 06/05/2007
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Filed under: Advertising, Maps, News Advertisements, Advertising, Google-Maps, marriage-proposals, roof-advertising, Rooftop-Ads, Roofvertising, Satellite-Photos
