Interesting Google Earth Pictures

[Günthar Rowe]

Ok, so I'm actually in a shot on Goolge Street View If you go to

302 Frankton Road, Queenstown, Otago

you will see me driving my Land Rover Defender 110

credit goes to my 8 year old son for "driving" every street in Queenstown in Street View

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

Wow... I had to blink a few times when I saw that.

 

[Resi Respati]

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

I was looking at the Goldenport race track in China, and I found something very interesting:


EDIT: I found another one at the same track, exiting the pits. Must have been a test day or something...

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Nice thread people

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

Looks like the Google Earth satellite brigade caught a freight train near my house:

 

[Austin Jordan]

yeah i looked at a go kart track to see a track on the national schedule next year and it showed go karts going around it.

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

Every year in Palanga, Lithuania, they hold a race on the highway just outside the city called the Omnitel 1000km. The track is available for rFactor.

As it would happen, Google Earth got satellite pictures that were taken precisely when the race was happening!

 

[James Chant]

I noticed that Suzuka is half under cloud cover

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...966,136.536541&spn=0.018209,0.038581&t=h&z=15

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

Yeah, that is a shame...

 

[James Chant]

Well, UK circuits (which have anything happening)...

Brands Hatch http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...57499,0.263629&spn=0.013185,0.038581&t=h&z=15
Must be a big event - bikes of some kind as ducati trailers in the pit lane paddock areas - and overflowing car parks nearby

Croft http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...4.456169,-1.556153&spn=0.012898,0.038581&z=15 Cant make out the cars, possibly GT, not sure. its a decent event though as the car parks are busy

Snetterton http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...463527,0.940264&spn=0.00169,0.004823&t=k&z=18 Looks like a group of bikes going round

Castle Combe http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...3281,-2.213482&spn=0.001727,0.004823&t=k&z=18 racing school cars going round

knockhill http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...0969,-3.511883&spn=0.000735,0.002411&t=k&z=19 Minis or Legends at a guess

lydden hill http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...77135,1.198969&spn=0.000869,0.002411&t=k&z=19 Some marshalls on the grid

Bedford autodrome (not a proper track) http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...27734,-0.474901&spn=0.006467,0.01929&t=k&z=16 giant car park on nearby runway

rockingham http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...3883,-0.659043&spn=0.000844,0.002411&t=k&z=19 bikes on infield circuit

 

[Adam Eggbeer]

Anybody else worried about the 2 marshalls stood in the middle of the track at the turn 4 chicane at Croft?

 

[James Chant]

Anybody else worried about the 2 marshalls stood in the middle of the track at the turn 4 chicane at Croft?

Lol, must be between races!

 

[Adam Eggbeer]

Maybe, but there are cars approaching the corner/just past the corner, so maybe it was a photo taken a bit later in the day.

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

Some kind of huge car club display at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

 

[FerrariMan96]

LOL - It's Midtown Madness

Or maybe Mid-Track Madness

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

The Queen Mary 2 docked in Fremantle, Western Australia. I went to see this ship when it was there and took some photos of it... it really is huge.

 

[Resi Respati]

Ghost plane?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...077,-80.164179&spn=0.004427,0.006899&t=h&z=17

 

[Omer Said]

Ghost plane?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...077,-80.164179&spn=0.004427,0.006899&t=h&z=17

wow that's a Hogwarts airplane!! :O

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

More like a psychedelic rainbow aeroplane. :tongue: