WTF...the Israeli-Egyptian border in Google Maps

[Paktu]

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=11&ll....365234&spn=0.537567,0.862427&t=k&om=1

Why is the color so different on each side?

 

[Leros]

Zoom in as far as you can. The color distinction isn't along the border, just near it. It looks liked they pictures of Israel were taken at a different time.

Also, some of the Egypt map seems to be in black and white.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Leros
Zoom in as far as you can. The color distinction isn't along the border, just near it. It looks liked they pictures of Israel were taken at a different time.

I zoomed in. they're still different. it's really distinctive, and it's along the border.

 

[Riverhound777]

Pictures taken at different time of year. One in what looks like spring, the other fall.

 

[Ionizer86]

Doesn't this usually happen when they use different satellite imagery for different regions?

 

[Leros]

Google doesn't care about Egyptian people?

 

[Scouzer]

That destroyed airfield is cool.

 

[Paktu]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
Doesn't this usually happen when they use different satellite imagery for different regions?

That's what I thought at first, but zoom in closer:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=11&ll....365234&spn=0.537567,0.862427&t=k&om=1

There's like three different satellite images there, and yet the border is still different on each side.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: Leros
Google doesn't care about Egyptian people?

like Bush to Blacks?

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: Leros
Google doesn't care about Egyptian people?

like Bush to Blacks?

You got the joke.
/golf clap

 

[dartworth]

damn liberal satellites...

 

[Leros]

Whats going on with this yellow water in Russia?
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=...2,74.970703&spn=2.693016,14.677734&t=h

 

[uhohs]

israelis have captain planet on their side.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Probably different data for each country, rather than just different Landsat swaths like you see at the smaller scale (zoomed out).

Look, it clearly goes along the border.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=...43,34.343948&spn=0.178382,0.371475&t=h

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Leros
Whats going on with this yellow water in Russia?
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=...2,74.970703&spn=2.693016,14.677734&t=h

Those are sediments

 

[csiro]

I zoomed in and I found this.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&t=...123436,75.754852&spn=0.301239,1.266174

WTH?

 

[SilthDraeth]

I am pretty sure they bleached the dirt on one side.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: Leros
Whats going on with this yellow water in Russia?
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=...2,74.970703&spn=2.693016,14.677734&t=h

In Soviet Russia, river pees on you!

 

[0roo0roo]

whats with the circular land plots in israel

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Paktu
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=11&ll....365234&spn=0.537567,0.862427&t=k&om=1

Why is the color so different on each side?

Different environmental laws

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: csiro
I zoomed in and I found this.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&t=...123436,75.754852&spn=0.301239,1.266174

WTH?

Someone must have sneezed on the lens.

 

[biggestmuff]

The pictures were taken at different satellite angles as well as different times of the day and of the year.

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
whats with the circular land plots in israel

Orbit irrigation.

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21

Originally posted by: csiro
I zoomed in and I found this.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&t=...123436,75.754852&spn=0.301239,1.266174

WTH?

Someone must have sneezed on the lens.

Maybe coal mining byproducts? Like piles of black rock?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: lyssword

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21

Originally posted by: csiro
I zoomed in and I found this.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&t=...123436,75.754852&spn=0.301239,1.266174

WTH?

Someone must have sneezed on the lens.

Maybe coal mining byproducts? Like piles of black rock?

Nope, lakes in a river delta.

 

[destrekor]

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&...3756570896.000001122b1ba4683df91&msa=0

hmm.. a flag-like pattern... anyone know what those things are along the roads that comprise the flag shape?