Comments on: Silly Google, Ski-jumping is in the Winter Olympics http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/silly-google-ski-jumping-is-in-the-winter-olympics/ Ten pounds of blog in a five-pound sack Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:23:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Kevin http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/silly-google-ski-jumping-is-in-the-winter-olympics/#comment-27 Kevin Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:51:12 +0000 http://www.kevland.com/blog/?p=23#comment-27 Just plot a course from DC to Nantucket, and click on the street view icon for the exit from I-91 to US-6 in Providence. I think they just used the wrong street view; you're not actually on that bridge at the time, you're underneath it. If you map the path to Boston instead of Nantucket (so you take the other option at that split), it uses the correct street view, which is the same Lat & Long, but about 30 feet lower altitude. Another amusing thing is to find a bridge over a deep canyon (like Glen Canyon Bridge in northern Arizona) in Google Earth, then go to an oblique view. The bridge isn't in the elevation database, so it maps the overhead image of the bridge (and cars!) onto the topography of the gorge. It's not a bridge, it's a ford! Just plot a course from DC to Nantucket, and click on the street view icon for the exit from I-91 to US-6 in Providence. I think they just used the wrong street view; you’re not actually on that bridge at the time, you’re underneath it.

If you map the path to Boston instead of Nantucket (so you take the other option at that split), it uses the correct street view, which is the same Lat & Long, but about 30 feet lower altitude.

Another amusing thing is to find a bridge over a deep canyon (like Glen Canyon Bridge in northern Arizona) in Google Earth, then go to an oblique view. The bridge isn’t in the elevation database, so it maps the overhead image of the bridge (and cars!) onto the topography of the gorge. It’s not a bridge, it’s a ford!

]]> By: Maggie http://www.kevland.com/blog/2008/08/silly-google-ski-jumping-is-in-the-winter-olympics/#comment-26 Maggie Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:08:39 +0000 http://www.kevland.com/blog/?p=23#comment-26 Google really wants you to drive off a bridge? Where did you find that? Google really wants you to drive off a bridge? Where did you find that?

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