Amusing And Ridiculous Screenshots People Just Had To Take While Looking Up Google Maps (New Pics)

trixtopherduke:

A wonderful gift to be able to see him again. Looks like he was a cool cat.

eyehate:

Awww.
My girl left us in March. She was 21. Cranky old kitty momma.
Glad you get to see your furry kiddo on Google.

throwawaycima:

Thought lice were bad, wait til you see Polio lice.

Anon:

It's really not that hard to get additions approved on Google Maps. I've added fake businesses to the home addresses of a couple war criminals.

44.95533324588065, -93.16464560256318

canoe_:

That McDonald’s just got torn down.

CompetitiveRub9780:

What do they do if they have to pee tho?

NIPLZ (OP):

Go to the bathroom, I assume.

upvotes_are_useless:

Any "street view" there too??

NotAnotherFNG:

This is Manua'e and is actually located in the Society Islands. It was a coconut plantation in the 1920s. Today it's a nature preserve.
Coincidentally, there is also a Manuae island in the Cook Islands.

Entire-Reference2379:

Must be the scenic route.

Ahaigh9877:

Google Maps likes to offer different routes, which is fine at the beginning of a journey, you can choose one (it could tell you which is more scenic, but I guess that's a lot to ask from something that's only been in development for a few thousand years), but that's okay.
But once I've chosen my route, Google Maps you absolute bastard, please do not re-route me on a f*****g whim, even if a little "I'm going to re-route you unless you tell me to stop" box appears on the screen for a bit. Don't f**king do that please Google Maps.

Location.

Location.

I was exploring the Brooklyn Navy Shipyard and decided to do a little drive around, and all of a sudden this guy shows up. At first I thought Google removed the face but when I zoomed in and tried to figure out what it is, the “person” started jumping around like shown in the pics. Also, when you try to drive past him, maps gives me a “server error” message. Got me spooked ngl.

ni1co:

This is what you just found: THE BALLAD OF LOOSII NINJAS.

I was browsing around the midland texas when i found this. Everything got blacked out. I searched for CRMWD and the only thing I found is Colorado River Municipal Water District. Why would a water utility building got censored? Can someone explain.

Abject-Storm4834:

Black balls, don't put that out of context.

Dwashelle:

Yeah these are those black balls in a water reservoir to stop it from evaporating, there's a video about it on YouTube that's pretty interesting.

Genbei River.

Coordinates: 40.4007084, 17.6402574

Location.

No clue what I’ve done here but I can’t get rid of them. Nothing in layers to deselect. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Help!

Anon:

Looks like you added a layer with locations of toilets.
Click the "You" tab on the bottom and see if it shows up there under your lists. You may be able to remove it there.

Not sure how this happened: the guardrail looks undamaged!
Location.

-52.1858144,-58.8390295

Coordinates are (30.4879793, -84.4249830)

Antique-Tone-1145:

It’s a reoccurring problem around this time of year and around the end of November, ie the periods where winter tyres, usually studded, start being required but when the roads in town aren’t necessarily covered in ice and snow, meaning the studded tyres tear up the streets and release very harmful particles in the air. It’s a common problem in other Swedish cities, and for example in Stockholm they’ve banned studded tyres from the worst affected roads. That’s not necessarily possible in Östersund though because when it does snow and the roads are icy studded tyres are a necessity for safety reasons.

This is Brienz in the Kanton of Graubünden near Davos. Switzerland.

AttackerCat:

My guess is this is someone who (either on their own or as a business) repairs Teslas without an owner needing to go through Tesla themselves. With most car manufacturers it can be incredibly expensive to get a replacement part from them, by design.
This is why right to repair is important.

Coordinates are: 25.219543, 55.174437

thenoisymouse:

Yep. The world Dubai... Been there for a decade or more now. A failed attempt. Horrible smelling shallow water and algae blooms have prevented it from being completed. Same with the other palm developments, they lucked out with 1. But every other has been a natural and economic disaster.

madery:

There has been some gps jamming going on lately.

I checked previous dates and it isn’t a statue so I don’t know what it is.

Location.

real_hungarian:

I think that's the Stade red mud reservoir. red mud (bauxite residue) is a byproduct of processing bauxite into aluminium oxide, not a very pleasant chemical.

I found a weird thing in northern manitoba and I want to know if anyone know wtf this is 56.4340432, -94.2222389.

traditionaldrummer:

Henday Land Electrode.

cromagnone:

That was a great rabbit hole to fall down. This is basically a place where you can plug a power station into the earth if you need the electricity to go somewhere else for a while.

Coordinates of anyone is interested: 14°10'56.6"N 122°39'47.4"E

So, I was scanning Lake Washington, right outside Seattle and I came across this. This does look like a large, recreational boat, sinking? I'm not going crazy, nor are my eyes going bad? I did a quick search for news of any boats sinking in that area, but I found nothing. Could this be a shadow effect from the sun? I figured that this would be the best community to post this.

carlitosbahia:

Nah, just google being dumb in images over water.
Example in the same area boats that were there at some other date then google mixed images from more than one date then we see all those "ghost" boats.

covacola:

I thought surely this must be a joke or well edited or something but no, it was really called that. However to answer the question as to "why," it apparently was previously named after the Morris Village Alc*hol and Dr*g A**iction Treatment Center.

I think it's Australian grenades, mortars and artillery shells, along with a helmet.

Coordinates are here.

Ziginox:

It's the sun reflecting off of a skylight, greenhouse, or other shiny surface.

cheesenachos12:

Real answer is that the road was not designated as a one way in Google maps, so it just takes the shorter route. Or it was the wrong way.

tistisblitskits:

Papua new guinea does have tribal groups, so it might be that.

Heartgirl2020:

That’s what happens to the cameras in a low light environment. They kept rolling a little too close to sunset.

John_EightThirtyTwo:

I'm always intrigued by the fact that some parts of the world have 3D imagery in Google Maps, and others don't. In the latter places, you can go into the 3D mode and pan and zoom around, but you're moving around over features that appear painted onto a flat world.
I know that some of the imagery is from satellites and some from aircraft that fly up and down across a grid over the landscape. I imagine that the 3D feature requires both the latter, more-detailed images and also a bunch of back-end computation at Google. Is that right? Has Google published any info about the process?