I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for Google Maps getting all clone-happy in this part of Holland. It's probably just a secret alien landing site or something.
The whole area is full of Photoshopped artefacts. Theories welcome. Thanks to MK!
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Google Maps: Unusually Similar Trees = Black Helicopters
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Leave it to the Dutch to clone the heck out of their trees! Damn GMOs!
I am starting to really give up on this blog.
Wow, and next to a golf course too.
Those are usually Military "secrets". The White House is censored too.
There are a lot of cloned areas.
But sometimes they just work more sloppy. Like the Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ramstein+air+base&sll=49.449023,7.559377&sspn=0.006431,0.016479&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=49.441775,7.59917&spn=0.012864,0.032959&z=16
That's Dick Cheney's "Old Europe" vacation home.
Who thinks this stuff up?
A military base cloned out right beside a golf course and a road. Really? REALLY?
anonymous at 12:14... no it's not.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=the+white+house&ie=UTF8&ll=38.897663,-77.036563&spn=0.001966,0.004828&t=h&z=18
@Unk: Thank god! Now if only the rest your kind would follow...
It used to be 2-3 great disaster a week. Now it's being a lucky one a month.
C'mon you can do better.
If it's Dutch are you sure it isn't windwills?
omg guys theres also this one http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.090134,6.123794&spn=0.002136,0.004807&z=18 the water looks shopped guys, and theres a line drawn in the water which isnt there in reality. i know this because im good at analyzing pixels, okay.
ummm. ok so why do it seriously?? Space dust get in the way and get confusing looking?
Live maps version seems ok...
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=52.090073~6.12381&style=h&lvl=18&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
Man I think people just like complaining if this blog doesn't live up to their standards. I still like it even with the occasional misses. IMHO you can complain when you do better.
"unk said...
I am starting to really give up on this blog."
Always fucking naysayers! Where's your blog unk? Seeing as you can do a better job it seems
My bet is more on clouds. They're so rare on google earth that I think they remove them...
Clumsily that is
There's photoshopping where there shouldn't be, that's good enough for me!
Oh my god! They nuked Holland!!
I am living near there, I will go check it out ASAP and get back to y'all.
photoshop disasters rulez
Black holes are good too:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=42.372448,-71.557581&spn=0.009511,0.013669&t=k&z=16
One's in the middle of a Wal-Mart parking lot.
I live in Holland and a friend of mine lives in that place, Brussum!
But as far as I and my friend do know, there isn't a big secret there.. actually I was in that street 'Eerbeekseweg' a month ago or something like that..
Weird..
There are a lot of reasons the satellite photos get 'shopped, mostly clouds and missing patches. They're made up of many satellite pass-bys and if something is missed or obscured they'll either leave it as a black box (you can see these around google maps as well), redo it or just 'shop a bit.
"unk said...
I am starting to really give up on this blog."
Go for it! The sooner the better! Perhaps you could make your own blog, wherein you complain about how much your own blog sucks. That would be awesome!
Nice catch. This 'shop job wouldn't be so obvious if they'd avoided cloning that light-colored bit of tree. I love scrutinizing google maps imagery and finding things like this, myself.
And to the complainers: what the hell is wrong with you guys? This is obviously photoshopped, not very well, and in a place where most people don't expect to see photoshopping at all. It's interesting. I can sorta understand bitching about posts where the original image wasn't photoshopped, or it was just the result of poor art direction, but this is a classic photoshop disaster. And if you're really that unhappy with the blog, just leave – nobody will miss you. And those of us who enjoy it, and just ignore the underwhelming posts, can go on reading without your cynical noise gunking things up.
Complainers: I'm over your whinging and whining after every post. If you've nothing nice to say, then say nothing.
Visiting this site is optional and free.
As of Dec 2007, there were reportedly 112 million other blogs on the internet. I'd love to think you'll leave and explore them...
Here's the same area on local.live:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=52.089952~6.123293&style=h&lvl=18&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&where1=Brummen&encType=1
They want to hide something. They do it quick... of course its a ps disaster. i love that blog. and sometimes i love "small" disasters more than "one giant big hand". keep this site up.
Maybe @unk lives there. :D
Finding Unk.
Soon in theaters and Google Maps.
I love the idiots who hate America (and themselves) so much that they blame a cloning sample in Holland on the Executive branch of US government. I encourage all of you morons to move to Holland and clone yourselves out of existence here in the US. F'n morons.
And to the haters who have nothing better to do than b!+ch about this blog and it's posts...it's amazing that you feel your opinion is so important. Shut up and move to the back of the line...of morons moving to Holland.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.090134,6.123794&spn=0.002136,0.004807&z=18
I cycled past this base every day for 5 years, and I've never seen those trees before!
@unk
Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
Though to be fair, I do wish a little more research was put into some of the pictures so people like unk wouldn't have any ammunition to begin with. I'm talking about simple oversights like the Donaghy photo and, to a lesser extent, the Mad Men photo.
Alejo - that was a really good burn heh. Unk -stfu and get your own blog. This whining is boring as hell.
It looks like Google bought limited use-rights from some aerial photo company. If you zoom in as far as allowed on Maps, the ghostly, almost legible artifacts of what looks like text watermarks can be seen strewn about the area in a semi-regular pattern.
Keep in mind that Google Maps isn't exclusively satellite photos. They use a great deal of aerial photo material.
4:28...those watermarks say (C)2007 Google.
To anonymous at 3:20 pm:
Exactly who blamed this on the executive branch of the U.S. government? Sounds like you pulled that one out of the air yourself so you could call someone (anyone) a moron. Delusional much?
Wow, maybe I'm missing something here... but I took the "black helicopters" bit to be a joking remark - yet tons of commentors took it seriously and had to slam you.
interesting... and funny!
"August 12, 2008 4:28 PM":
"It looks like Google bought limited use-rights from some aerial photo company"
Ding, Ding, Ding... and we have a winner ladies and gentlemen.
quite obviously the satelite view was obscured by a passing UFO.
The UFO was covered in clone-shield.
mystery solved
anon @ 4:46:
I suspect the anon you were discussing sees anything but obsequious butt-kissing of his country as abuse - but he also sees comments that have *nothing whatsoever to do with the American government* as abuse, because he can't wrap his head around the idea that the world does not revolve around him.
He then twists everyone else's words so that even the mildest criticism of America (and even criticism of Google!) sounds like insane anti-Americanism. That makes him feel patriotic, because he's "defended his country" from "abuse" and made everyone who disagrees with him into an "extremist". It's pretty sad and pathetic.
That or he's ten years old. Trolls do the same kind of stuff.
At any rate, either he'll grow up or shut up one day. He really does make the US look very, very bad, though.
Same location in Live Search Maps: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=52.090073~6.12381&style=h&lvl=18&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
None of the links any of you posted work because you're stupid and didn't use tinyurl.
Aerial photography like this is a mosaic of overlapping images. If you pan ease/west you can follow the seam. It's pretty common to use Photoshop to fix the seam when it really stands out, and tall trees tend to show seams really well, since they have different illuminations when viewed from the north and the south. They also will "lean" away from the center of the lens due to perspective. This is pretty lousy Photoshop work, but there's nothing sinister about it.
duh, we are talking about Holland here. Its the golftrack that complaint because there weedplants were showing....
Or... It's hole 19 "the nude one".
That same area on the live search maps looks fine. Not this abortive, overcloned, monstrosity.
Sweet house to the Northwest of the Clone Forest. Perhaps very very rich clones live there!
When georectification happens, imagery gets whacked. Depending on the flight resolution (more than 1 meter) it gets ugly. Pixel pushers get paid by the hour and the coverage of flights can be extensive.
Hi all, please remember that the anonymous, hateful redneck does not represent all of us Americans! We're still trying to figure out how someone who allegedly loves their country so much can seem to hate every one of its citizens...
I used my X-Ray Spex to figure out what it said. Shhhhhh! It's a secret, but I guess I can say it here in the Super-Secret Treehouse Lair of Cooldom. Here's a link with the Ultra-polarization Politico-Vision refracted and translated for just us , so no telling :
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JsArTXNN_Zk/SKJSYpEMZRI/AAAAAAAAADE/mSzly7YlbLs/s1600-h/googlemapsbunny1.jpg
the photoshop job looks fake - because it's fake--
like repairs to the cistine chapel, the intent is to fill in the gaps, but not make it look "natural". the purpose of this is so it is obvious where missing data is when there is a new peice of data. black hole are uasally in the original image, cause by bugs, dirt etc.. and long white streaks are usually left by blocks of data that dont line up perfectly...
just remeber, it's a FREE service. if you dont like it, make your digital earth.
You know their secret. They're going to come after you.
http://maps.live.com/#JnE9eXAuZ3JvdHRhZ2xpZSUyYytpdGFseSU3ZXNzdC4wJTdlcGcuMSZiYj01OC40MDE3MTE2Njc2MDglN2UtNDMuNTA1ODU5Mzc1JTdlMTkuMTE2MTA0ODIzNTE3NCU3ZS0xMzQuNTYwNTQ2ODc1
If you look at the aerial view of the area between Grottaglie and Monteiasi in Italy, you can see an airport, but when you zoom in, it turns into a random mess of small fields.
Word at boingboing.net is that it's the future offices for the Royal Dutch Police:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/12/photoshop-cloned-tre.html#comment-258653
Not exactly sure why they have to cover the location, though.
No, Holland is just like that.
What about natural cloning ?
(yes, i'm kidding, but...)
The site you are talking about is just a 100, 150 km away from the trees. The site is in Amsterdam and is a new site for military police, this site is now or was in juse as a naval base.
The site with the trees is just a copyright issue and bad photoshop. There is nothing there but trees. Just leave it at that or come and see for yourself, this area is know for its peace and quiet. (no i do not live there and no i am not paid by the tourist agency)
Now THIS is bad photoshop (in the same area):
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.132671,5.846336&spn=0.008193,0.024955&z=16
Anonymous said...
None of the links any of you posted work because you're stupid and didn't use tinyurl.
They work fine if you copy & paste.
Moron!
Whilst I'm in negative mode.. if you don't like this blog f**k off and look at something else. There's plenty out there, some better some worse. Take your pick.
same area in on M$ Live:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=52.132619~5.845639&style=a&lvl=15&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
so they did hide some military installation.
It's clearly hiding the Giant Trojan Clog the Dutch are about to use to invade Belgium with.
How about they just removed a cloud ?
In Flashearth.com, it looks like a normal forest:
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.089559&lon=6.123246&z=18.7&r=0&src=msa
No Idea what is wrong there.
In Flashearth, most hidden places in google maps can be seen (f.e. the NATO Airbase at Teveren, Germany)
Unfortunately it's not Google Map's fault. They did a similar thing to an aerial shot of my house. They removed all the tress in front of my house!
When I asked Google why; They just told me that they buy the photos in from 3rd parties, and if they edit the photos, there's nothing Google can do about it!
that is 25 km from my house!
no photsohop there, it was aliens. belive me, i know
Over at Google Sightseeing, we've seen this kind of thing several times before:
http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/03/13/planes-in-formation/
There's some suggestion that the aerial imagery is doctored by the companies that capture it, before it is sold on to the likes of Google. Not to hide anything however, but rather to "watermark" the images as belonging to that company, to provide proof of ownership should they need to fight theft of their copyrighted images.
Naaaaaa! There's no photoshoping here!
I can see it!
When I walk in forest sometimes I got exactly the same pattern during a lot of time... like one brown tree, 2 grey and one yellowish...one brown tree, 2 grey and one yellowish...one brown tree, 2 grey and one yellowish...
I'm really givin' up on his blog...
...
NOOOOOOO THEY FUNCKIN' CONTAMINATED ME!!!
daaamn.
It is a completely normal topographic feature that looks like Mohammad.
One could, of course, simply drop the golf course in question an email... www.engelenburg.com .
ok, wanna see a REALLY bad photoshopping?
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/2135/fake1de0.jpg
downtown San Francisco, maps.google.com
thank God they removed it since then.
Well, I've been positioned on a German military base which really had a golf course next to it. So why not?
But i rather believe, that a secret Google-Observation-Camp has benn camouflaged here *g*
Its not military Secrets, its because google forgot to take the picture from that area...hehehehe...Eureka Season 3
soja.bob is right: It's a top secret google data center. If you can gain access, your PageRank will become 10!
NATO Headquarters, Brussum, The Netherlands, 1995-2000
Greetings from WizSpec
Come on - this is not a disaster it is intentional.
i didn't see black helicopters. i only see the same trees...
It might be due to something fairly innocuous: Google protecting its copyright: They can easily tell if someone else has "borrowed" their images if someone else's images show mods that Google's added. Map makers often do this sort of thing... Of course it might be a fleet of Alien Invasion vehicles under their mods, too.
Sometimes you can use Streetview to look at the black holes. :)
> Black holes are good too:
>http://maps.google.com/?>ie=UTF8&ll=42.372448,-71.557581&spn=0.009511,0.013669&t=k&z=16
>One's in the middle of a Wal-Mart >parking lot.
In this case it seems to be...just houses? Boring...
My vote's for clouds too. Though, would it have been hard to take the time to make it look right? The designer was prob in a hurry to get back to playing ping-pong or something. Surely part the luxuries that come with working at a job that is deemed one of the best workplaces.
wow I wish all the complainers would find something better to do. Seriously...If you don't like the blog find another.
google probably found the end of the rainbow :o
That´s no photoshoped area, i´m sure it´s real in Holland.
Look at Hollands Tomatoes in the supermarket - they are same too. ;-)
The rectangle of trees just to the left on google maps is also photoshopped, you can see an open end down crescent pattern repeated four times.
Anonymous@5:47~
Those links worked just fine for me...
Perhaps operator error?
give up if you want. this blog is jamming. I wish I could get half this amount of interest in my blog.
Here's my theory: OF COURSE any number of world governments are going to photoshop satellite mass for public viewing. They aren't going to let that stuff loose! But I think they will photoshop better than this. The trouble is, there are a lot of clever photoshop spotters - they can simply make a list of the places that are photoshopped and Viola! They deduct where the secret military bases, testing labs, and government vacation compounds must be! Therefore, it would make sense that the governments would do a lot of BOGUS bad photoshop "fixes" in unimportant places to mask the location of the real secret stuff.
Another European Disney venture – Dutch Disney that went awry, and well it had to “just go away”.
It must be were Saddam Hussein kept his WMDs. Bush will invade holland next!
..strange, nothing wrong with this piece of land on other satelites...
check it on: http://www.flashearth.com/
and search west of "Brummen"
I don't understand why so many people complain about not-super-spectacular posts...if you were paying money to view this blog, it would be different. BUT YOU'RE NOT. Why not be happy with what you get?
Hey, also, maybe a lack of frequent posts indicates a lack of abundant photoshop disasters? This should please you! :]
Wait a minute, you all get to see this site for FREE? Damn, how'd I get shafted for a ten-spot? Well, anyway it's worth it. It's worth the price of admission just to read all the whiners lol.
From my previous experience in trying to align several small pictures into a big one, I would vote for trying to hide the intersection lines...
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.089737&lon=6.122681&z=18.3&r=0&src=msa
Can I just say that this isn't in Holland? It's in the country of The Netherlands. Holland is only the two provinces of Noord Holland and South Holland.
A lot of cloned trees and cloned areas in that part, if you zoom out...
This is what a hidden thing really looks like in Holland:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.090134,6.123794&spn=0.002136,0.004807&z=18
Of course the road around the pixelation Translates to Navel Airbase ring.
They do this instead of putting a huge "Missing Environment" message up like they used to. This way people can see as much of the real area as possible. It's usually just a small blotched spot from the satellite photo.
The terrain you see there is part of Kasteel Engelenburg. It is a conference center and hotel. The golf course is part of that terrain as well.
I live near a military base which is "blocked" by Google.
Which is kindof silly, because the whole terrain can be seen from the rails AND the public roads. Yet the whole live range is UNblocked, while it has been known to have contained nuclear weapons in the eighties (It as more acceptable back then) and is still rumoured there still are.
Doesn't such cloning/blocking however pretty much "bullseye" where to fire your WMD's at ?
"There are a lot of cloned areas.
But sometimes they just work more sloppy. Like the Ramstein Air Base in Germany."
There is no photoshopping there, Ramstein is actually painted white.
(Not sarcasm.)
In GoogleEarth you can "fly to:" 52.090134 N, 6.123794 E
hilarious. great find and catch i must say.
thanks
jay
Cyber Monday
I drove there several times, belief me, no mysteries. If you don't believe me, check out
live.com of the same location. They either have better photoshop artist or there's nothing to see.
Go look in Google Earth for cloned parts and tell the international terrorist organizations to drop bombs there.
Hey retards. Look at #4 on this list:
http://www.itsecurity.com/features/51-things-not-on-google-maps-071508/
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3550/ufoxb8.jpg
UFO over Belgium ;)
Haha, awesome! And forget the complainers, there are tons of people who love this blog. It's just the haters who are loudest.
If they're going to clone, the least they could do is avoid repetitive cloning of the same exact thing over and over!
I've spotted many altered photos in magazines, etc, because of bad cloning jobs!
There are many parts of Asia (and many other parts of the World) that have been 'Photoshopped' for the purpose of Googlemapping because they were nuclear bombed, killing millions of innocent people and there were large towns/cities destroyed in the process. Maybe you now know why you could not find what you were looking for in Asia via Googlemapping!
Google dot the world with "obviously fake" areas so that if you happen to use their maps for commercial purposes, they can prove in court that you stole their maps.
Kate Hurowitz, in Global Communications & Public Affairs, told StinkyJournalism.org that they are concerned and investigating the phtoshopped Google Map. She said, "We're aware that there seems to be an anomaly in our imagery and are working to determine what happened."
GO TO FULL STORY http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-130.php
I tagged this at Wikimapia. Wikimapia its like Google Maps, but with a cool tagging feature, that allow people to tag places in the map. It's in here! Enjoy
Thank you. I zoomed to the max and those trees sure do look like identical twins to me. I only wish I could zoom further and to a clearer resolution.
Thank you. I have skimmed the article and it is very good. I created a Blog in relation to this specific Googlemap 'Photoshopping' - http://www.xanga.com/jakatta/671412283/photoblog-disaster.html - and maybe it is to your liking.
Jeetu left a comment and the name Jeetu made me think of an item of music titled Cry India by Umboza (on Positiva records) that predicts the nuclear bombings India suffered between 1992 and 2004 that killed millions of innocent people and destroyed many urbanizations but Googlemap these areas and there is no evidence of anything. Extremely sick eh?
I really like how they got the trees around thee to grow in patches that look like numbers! I see 14 and 15 really close to each other, rather near the "clubhouse" that appears to have a heliport landing target shape to it....
And those cloned trees kinda have an airplane sorta shape to them!
Oooh, those Dutch!
Russian tanks preparing to invade Georgia maybe?
Okay, we've had the bad jokes about Holland, haha, very funny gentlemen, I tip my hat off to you. No, really. Clogs and windmills and weed plantages seem to be the stereotypical answer. Grow up please. I'm not making fun of America now, am I?
Ok but wooden shoes are REALLY funny. But I apologize if you were offended by comments here. It's just that they're funny is all.
Windmills aren't so funny except when Mayor Bloomberg proposes putting them on top of all the buildings in NYC and making a huge "wind farm" to lead up to the statue of liberty. Then they're funny. Because it's so ridiculous.
Well, to get back to the odd Photoshopping, I thought maybe it might have been this house fire (Dutch only). I'm not certain whether or not the mapmakers are respectful of damage to personal property and therefore Photoshop it out, but I thought that maybe, just maybe, this was an explanation.
oddly enough, this is fixed now. lol
a good plae to check 4 cloning is florida . big wepons base . should be lots of cloning .
P.S. name is sarcasm America is good ^_^
but they hide a lot from the world e.g. AREA 51 {it will have cloning}
There is a grove of trees that was planted back in the late '30's or early '40's by someone in the Nazi party. I believe it was in Germany, but can't recall. When viewed from the air, the trees form a swastika. Later, there were efforts to eradicate the image through deforestation etc., but it still showed up.
Forgive me if someone already mentioned it on this thread, I got tired of wading through all the negative entries to find out. Anyone else heard of this?
Didn't anyone notice that the link they gave shows that those clones are not actually ON the Google Maps page? (And no...Google did not quickly change it because it was in this blog. The people at Google Maps don't know this site exists...just like 99.9999% of the population.)
No worries!
See, like with the Space Race and the Russians vs. US of A, it's us against the Dutch! That photoshop job is merely hiding Holland's Area 52.
=D
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