Interessante Verkehrsknotenpunkte
Teilweise sehr komplexe Knotenpunkte. Einfach hineinzoomen!
Related maps
Funny and interesting Google(TM) Maps Views
Here is a selection of some nice map-segments you can find via Google Maps. Please note that the "aerial imagery" database will be updated sooner or later. So it's possible that several Markers I created will be outdated sometime. Google Maps "Getting Started" video
Google has created a "Getting Started" video for Google Maps. It should help educate people about the features in Google Maps. Maho Beach plane landing
Maho Beach in St. Maarten on Netherlands Antilles is famous for its spectacular plane landings at Princess Juliana Airport. Lombard Street
One of the most famous streets in San Francisco is the curvy Lombard Street. It's a one-way street from west to east. Stonehenge and replicas
Throughout the USA are these (funny) replicas of the famous Stonehenge stone formation.
Claes Oldenburg - selected artwork
Claes Oldenburg is an artist born in Stockholm, Sweden. Here is a collection of his famous worldwide public art installations: Hat in Three Stages of Landing (1982), Spoonbridge and Cherry (1988), Free Stamp (1991), Shuttlecocks (1994), Saw, Sawing (1996), Houseball (1996), Flying Pins (2000), Dropped Cone in Köln (2001), Cupid's Span (2002) "Street View" introduction
Google has created a introduction for the Street View feature in Google Maps. If you want to see Street View in action you can use the new GLOTTER Street View service http://www.glotter.com/streetview
And the best of all - from now on you can even embed Street View in your own GLOTTER entries! Car parking vertically on house wall in Den Haag
Zoom in, see and believe it ;-)
Related entry:
http://www.glotter.com/entry-1415
Scuba Divers chasing Google Streetview Car
These two Norwegian "Scuba Divers" (Børre Erstad and Paul Åge Olsen) are chasing Google's Streetview Car in their hometown Bergen.
The world's largest moose
Aka "The Trojan Moose" is a plan to build a restaurant, concert hall and conference center inside a wooden moose. It is located in Sweden on top of Vithatten mountain. The Witch's House in Beverly Hills
The Witch's House (Spadena House) in Culver City/Beverly Hills was built in 1921 for a movie studio. Nowadays the house is privately owned. Sony Bravia spot filmed in New York
Cool animation spot ("Play-Doh Bunnies" by Passion Pictures) filmed for Sony Bravia in August 2007. Location: Foley Square, New York City. Music: The Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow. Some interesting statistics: 40 animators; 189 2ft bunnies; 150 1ft cubes; a 30ft giant rabbit and a 10ft x 20ft purple wave; 2.5 tonnes of plasticine. Island that looks like a dolphin
Ile du Golfe (belongs to the Maatsuyker Islands) in Tasmania south of Australia.
Upside-down buildings
There are two houses named "WONDERWORKS" in Orlando, Florida and in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee that are built upside-down ;-)
Kuriose Ortsnamen
Hier sind einige zum Teil wirklich kuriose Ortsnamen verzeichnet: Bsp. Hell (Norwegen), Boring Road (Oregon), Pee Road (Hawaii), Loveland (Colorado), Batman (Türkei), ... Wer möchte schon gerne in Tuntenhausen (Bayern) oder in Fucking (Oberösterreich) wohnen?
The Squirrelizer = photo crasher
Melissa Brandts and her husband were hiking in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada and decided to take a portrait of themselves with spectacular Lake Minnewanka in the background. Melissa set up the camera and went back to pose, and her husband held the remote shutter release. Meanwhile, attracted by the sounds of the autofocus, an inquisitive Columbian ground squirrel, common in the park, popped up to investigate. Click! "Self-Portrait With Ground Squirrel"...
(c) National Geographic Intelligent travel blog
An internet hype is born ;) Smileys in LA
Two Smileys :-) on tanks in Los Angeles.
Canary Wharf roundabout
In Canary Wharf, a Business district in London, this strange "Traffic Light Sculpture" is situated in the middle of a roundabout. Animals on a Corn field
A really nice artwork near Birmingham.
Statue of Liberty Replicas
Worldwide replicas of the Statue of Liberty.