Re: Interesting places on Google Maps etc

by Nightjar Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:43 pm

Something strange outside of the "Children's Palace" in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. hmm

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.913177,106.9154749,2a,73.9y,131.04h,88.48t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4b6i1i9d5glawY5WHEkO5A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D4b6i1i9d5glawY5WHEkO5A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D53.798286%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

by Guest Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:38 pm

https://goo.gl/maps/KkB8x6eUoiNHaEQk6

by Butterfield Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:19 pm

I was just having a look at Windsor and Windsor Castle on Google Street View, then on the map noticed Eton just over the river. I thought I'd have a look there, expecting it would be right posh and fancy like. First place I landed:

https://goo.gl/maps/eWWtBC8tzTm1QXK8A

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:22 pm

by Butterfield Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:07 pm

It's grim down south.

Those flats cost a fortune I bet though. aristojar

by Fangirl Three Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:31 pm

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5801274,-2.8744395,3a,53.3y,115.96h,84.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPcZHg6Vlg-KhRSqsHiYZzg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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by cosmictanya Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:25 pm

Butterfield wrote:I was just having a look at Windsor and Windsor Castle on Google Street View, then on the map noticed Eton just over the river. I thought I'd have a look there, expecting it would be right posh and fancy like. First place I landed:

https://goo.gl/maps/eWWtBC8tzTm1QXK8A

It won't let me see, but I can imagine. I've never seen the appeal of Windsor - a grubby garrison town with added tourist tat, populated by people who can't afford to live in Buckinghamshire or Ascot - but desperately want to. The stench of sewage and jet fuel completes the picture. Unbelievably noisy, and not even pretty. Damp.

I was unsurprised that Frogmore proved unappealing to a Southern Californian. A mouldering old pile of bricks, with not one but two family mausoleums within spitting distance, filled with gothic coffins on shelves, and a garden jiving with frogs. I can't think of anything that would even make me spend a night there. Dank.

by cosmictanya Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:32 pm

Never mind 'Broadwater Farm', Windsor is one scary estate...

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Not enough money in the world to make Windsor attractive. It's a creepy place for creepy people. Anyone who buys a house on a floodplain is insane anyway. Think of Christine Keeler, growing up in an abandoned railway carriage, being abused - with nobody to notice or care. That's Windsor and its environs to me. Grim.

by Butterfield Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:14 am

"Brusio Spiral Viaduct" (look over to the right)

https://goo.gl/maps/DrehyHiA9M8M1L5MA

by Butterfield Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:22 am

Bonus video footage

by Fangirl Three Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:03 am

Marvellous, just like a model railway.

There's a place in Cornwall or Devon somewhere that has a railway loop a bit like that.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:31 am

How very peculiar. yes

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sun Oct 10, 2021 3:11 pm

https://goo.gl/maps/gmSCMgtCNiKsnChD6

It's not me is it?

Spoiler:

by Fangirl Three Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:47 am

The G is different - the masthead has hard edges and a proper 'arrowhead' like in the old Giro logo, whereas the vape place only has the upper line. Also the masthead G makes a 360 degree arc, but the sign only goes round 315 degrees.

by Butterfield Mon Oct 11, 2021 12:42 pm

What a rather grim street, in all directions.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:01 pm

Handy if you need a mobile phone accessory though.

by Butterfield Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:11 pm

It comes to something when a vape shop is the nicest premises in the street.

by Fangirl Three Mon Oct 11, 2021 2:03 pm

It's an industrial estate, it's not supposed to be pretty.

Though Cashmere Systems Ltd Wholesale should spend an afternoon tidying up one day.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Tue Oct 12, 2021 11:35 am

Fangirl Three wrote:It's an industrial estate, it's not supposed to be pretty.

It's not really.

https://goo.gl/maps/ug5mtTLyskLNJLP46

That's an odd way to put it, eat

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Oct 12, 2021 11:44 am

On the same street:

gasp

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