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And here is the picture of the Google car taken from the Bing one.
I just looked it up on google map. There's a whole neighborhood of homes similar to this. 4 homes sharing a common driveway, all equally close to each other.
https://www.bing.com/maps?q=6846+W+Grevillea+Ln%2c+West+Jordan%2c+UT&FORM=HDRSC4
Google Earth historical imagery shows the gray box was added October 20 2012. The latest image available is June 2 2015 but the site is obscured by clouds. The area is not obviously censored on Bing maps, but nothing unusual is in the area: https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=8d9eb2e5-d07b-4e1b-88fc-aee13c137228&cp=30.85176~81.652681&lvl=15&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
A firetruck coming out would be to prevent someone from losing their use of their property. By parking in your driveway, they've taken your use of your property.
I once called the police on the police because four cruisers came into my apartment parking lot with lights flashing. They all stopped right in the driveway blocking a half dozen cars in. They got out and went into the building across the way. An hour later and they're still there and I had no way to get my car out of my spot. I get it that there are emergencies, but they could have driven literally 50 feet and parked in the guest parking and people could have gotten in and out without bothering anyone. About five minutes after my call someone came out and moved all four cruisers.
It is this intersection: https://www.bing.com/maps?q=43.026919%2C+-87.917723&aqs=edge..69i57.53999682j0j4&pglt=163&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=EDGEDSE
Looks properly designed to me, just that people come flying over the bridge and then don't have enough time to slow down.
We're staying close, but I can see it both ways.
I know that Derbyshire constabulary are the most keen on keeping people out, but also, there is quite a bit of Sheffield that's actually in the national park. So you could choose to go to those parts of the Peak district.
You can see the boundary on the OS map here https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=f8999181-146e-4d2e-978a-c08a1f3837c7&cp=53.363538~-1.590741&lvl=13&style=s&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
It's the dashed and dotted line that runs through Stanedge pole.
Can be seen clearly on Bing Maps:
Strangely, google have managed to purge LHR of all vehicles.
Google street view from below.
edit: aerial map view
edit2: always forget automod removes short links to maps, another try.
This is only using half of the land clearing north of Dragonflier on the inside of the railroad U-turn. I wonder why the rest had to be cleared.
It looks like there's a discoloured rectangle on the Bing Maps aerial photo that the sim is interpreting as a shed.
Might be a something that caught a very strong glare for the photo. might be some kind of glitch in he data pipeline. Bing maps shows nothing there: https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=9a085076-5bb5-4ca4-96ac-1d3c5b98eb52&cp=-15.316554~-75.08958&lvl=19&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
And you're right, Bing maps seems pretty good!
The satellite images published by Politico show a buildup in Yelnya
Yelnya is nowhere near the border with Ukraine (about 250km away), it's near Smolensk, closer to the Belarusian border than anything.
We're being misled, and it's painfully obvious.
Just so you know. Google maps don't have very good resolutions. Bing maps have a much better quality.
Have a better look here.
From bing point of view: (X-Comment from /r/MildlyInteresting)
Bing has a 2014 streetside looking almost decent
Bing maps. (Not joking, they sometimes have better imagery.)
A significant portion of West London <em>is</em> golf course.
- Coombe Wood
- Coombe Hill
- Royal Wimbledon
- Malden
- London Scottish
- Wimbledon Park
- Richmond Park
- Richmond
- Roehampton
- Polewell
- Sandown Park Golf Centre
- Hersham Village Golf Centre
- Moore Place
- Surbiton
- Mitcham
Those are just the ones I found on a gentle cruise around Bing Maps.
> Because I used Bing maps, obviously
And this wasn't clear enough? It even takes less time than your claimed "over an hour" using the slowest method of transportation...
> You can't get to the same places on a bike as you can in a city.
Yeah, but there's a better chance your bike will be there when you get done in the suburbs.
> Given the labyrnthine way in which most suburbs are designed, you need to drive to get to places that aren't even that far away.
This is the poster child for post-war American suburbs, Levittown NY. It is somewhat labryinthine, yes, but it's not literally a maze where you have to go all the way around town to get to the next block.
> Parking takes time, even if there is plenty of space.
Transportation in the city takes more time, whether it be walking or taking (and waiting for) public transit.
New Orleans, St. Michael, Barbados Only other instance I know of.
Just looks like a chunk of land on Bing Maps which surprisingly has a couple birds-eye angles of it:
https://i.imgur.com/JnNgHWX.png
https://i.imgur.com/SbTVSCv.png
Google Maps on jo päivittänyt kadunnimen, mutta Bing Kartat ei. Nyt-liite voisi tehdä jutun, kuinka µsoft ylläpitää rasistisia rakenteita.
This is correct, and there's a little more to it as well.
There is an addition to the facility viewable on Bing maps.
It is the Veyo Heat Recovery Project.
There's also a video of it here.
> The Veyo Heat Recovery Project was built by Ormat and commissioned in May 2016. Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems owns and operates the 7.8 MW project which is located in southwest Utah. This Heat Recovery Project extracts the waste heat from the three natural gas compressors at the adjacent Kern River Gas Transmission compressor station and converts it into clean renewable energy utilizing Ormat’s Energy Converter technology.
What is it that is 10km wide? I see a fenced in square about 500 FEET wide. https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=6e4250bc-7d1e-4a2a-a09f-f6f27e377c21&cp=45.046408~56.770587&lvl=17&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
So to answer "what is this thing" I'd say the answer is a livestock pen.
> Weil klar, Lärm in Mehrparteienhäusern ist immer ein klein wenig asozial
"Neukölln mit ~50 Mietparteien pro Hausnummer" sieht üblicherweise so aus.
Keine Chance dass man im Hinterhof niemanden stört. Wenn man Glück hat dämpft ein Baum etwas aber man hört selbst das Klicken der Feuerzeuge der Raucher auf den Balkonen deutlich.
Pretty sure you can see the tunnel entrance on Bing maps here, just above the flatbed truck. It seems to fit with location shown in this old photo before the interstate was built.
Mostly unrelated but Haim Saban has an absolutely bonkers house in one of the most expensive/exclusive neighborhoods in the country. Fun to cruise over with Bing Maps aerial view
I see you, and raise you this neighborhood of faceless passive solar houses. Ah, the 80s.
Looks like an error in the sattelite photo data. If you look at other mapping sites that appear to use the same satellite data, the same spot is there. Looking at Bing Maps aerial imaging, you can see the ground where that spot is and it doesn't look like much of anything.
Here is a link to Bing Maps aerial photography of the same coordinates. https://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=31.066667~81.3125&style=h&lvl=12&sp=Point.31.066667_81.3125_Mount%20Kailash___
They don't blur it, instead using a different tile for this area.
Morris Brown College's Gaines Hall - a vacant building
https://twitter.com/wsbtv/status/634507355548459009
E: location
The Chronicle recently made a good guide for farmers markets in the region. Emma Balter visited many and wanted a market that could essentially replace a trip to a supermarket. The best overall is the Urban Harvest Farmers Market at 2752 Buffalo Speedway (the parking lot of St. John's School).
Well, the devs said that they started with Bing Maps data. Depending on the zoom level you're at, and the time of year the images were taken, it could be a soccer pitch. Currently, it looks like lacrosse: 39.900896, -75.167503
If you zoom out far enough, the Linc and CBP disappear and the Vet and Spectrum come back. Bing Maps ain't great.
You're welcome! You can also double check bing maps for the house.
But people can still get images censored through bing maps using the link in the bottom left corner "Report a privacy concern with this image" link.
Basically Houston and a lot of it's suburbs.
In his defense, this seems to narrow it down very closely. Not sure of the accuracy, but still.
Oh wow, that is further from the road than I anticipated.
As near as I can tell from the assessor's website, the properties on the road just south of this (Pine Meadows Way) do not extend up to the road you're on (Sunridge Road). There are also no homes on the south side of Sunridge, so that must be city/county land.
I skimmed a bit of the county planning website but can't find anything about it. Short of knocking on doors, this might remain a mystery.
the one south of Hertel on Elmwood is like a warehouse, Video Liquidators? Then there's a shop right at Hertel and Elmwood. And the American News Company on Niagara headed into Black Rock
also, there's this
Hey r/TwinCities!
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been making a map of locations around North America where you can view city skylines. Most of the locations I've added so far are in Minnesota.
If you know of any spots where you can view the skyline of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth, etc., feel free to add them to the map! Just make sure that accessing the spots don't involve trespassing on private property.
Some helpful databases:
MnTOPO - The colored base map is a great tool to use to find high-elevation spots.
Bing Maps, Google Maps - If you want to see if a location has an open view of the skyline, the Street View widgets are great to use.
Thanks!
I'm starting at the green circle on the left.
I want to get to the red circle on the right.
The intersection I'm coming to is fairly busy (crossing Winnetka) and has three lanes. My intent is to cross and take a pretty immediate left turn.
At this intersection there's a left turn only lane. I don't want that one.
There's a straight only lane. (yellow question mark)
There's right turn OR straight lane.
In a car, I'd obviously take the STRAIGHT ONLY lane so I'd be set up to take a left right after the intersection.
On a bike, am I obligated to stay in the far right (right turn OR straight lane) and then do a lane change in half a block across traffic to hit the left turn lane?
That option seems much less safe and inconvinent for everyone but it leaves me feeling pretty exposed and the cars who want to speed through the intersection to hit the next light, often get a bit worked up about me being there.
I'm not saying they are right, but to their eyes, I'm in a middle lane and not "knowing my place" as a rider.
So... before I keep doing it, I wanted to get a feel for what is the "right" thing to do in this case as an empowered, but courteous biker.
Actual Map Links:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9856093,-93.3802096,175m/data=!3m1!1e3
(In this case, Bing had a better picture of the intersection, so I used their image. Forgive me.)
I'm a cartographer, so use a lot of online map services for work. I have a subscription to ArcGIS Online, but even without one, the different basemaps are helpful for exploring.
Try the OpenStreetMap basemap (or go directly to the site) for a crowdsourced map that has interesting map features that you probably won't see elsewhere.
Also don't forget that Bing Maps exists. The aerial photography on Google/ArcGIS Online/Bing/whatever can be surprising depending on where you're looking. Move between different sites to make sure you're getting the highest resolution in your search area.
The south eastern one is roncador bank. Here is a map from bing. Still looking for the others
Bensenville yard end of the runway at O'hare. https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=76b18845-53f8-495a-8da3-9b14392d6d4f&cp=qzq9yg7p75bg&lvl=16&dir=180&style=o&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
Reminds me of Decade from the DMZ graphic novel. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YSRHwcAFVzo/TvrBT-Yd7UI/AAAAAAAAJZI/jPw8LmRXc1o/s1600/decadeslater.png
Only a small portion of Lake Superior is in Minnesota, certainly less than what is shown on this map.
No need to wonder, here it is on google maps.
The 3D option is getting better all the time. I only recently found out that you can free rotate by holding down the Ctrl button and moving your mouse to get the exact angle you want.
People often laugh at Bing but they have a feature called "birds eye view" which not many people know about. It's aerial photography from multiple angles (different flyovers) as opposed to satellite view. Same location for example. (Note the rotation option on the right beside the zoom in and out buttons)
High-rise residential buildings are being built all over the place, but mainly downtown. Everywhere else, we're seeing a lot of duplexes, triplexes and townhouses pop up.
TOD projects have been announced pretty much all along the line(s). Here's one example already under construction . It's mixed-use with office, retail, residential, restaurants, hotel, etc.
The project is directly connected to the transit station via an elevated walkway. https://solaruniquartier.com/en/
It's not perfect. There are some problems with this design, but it certainly beats more suburban sprawl. A step in the right direction!
Bing Maps allows up to 25 stops.
Definitely consider taking US395 on the east side of the Sierras instead of going up through Bakersfield and Fresno.
Where are you going after Salt Lake City across NV? Great Basin NP? Seems like you picked the hottest route possible for July with the exception of Great Basin.
> If you had a hard wall, you could have 1000 cases on one side of it and 0 on the other side, assuming there is no mixing.
> You have to change your routine to follow the rules. If you are going on as normal, you are the problem.
The way the restrictions are both written and enforced doesn't lend itself to your plan.
Obvious case is a key worker living near the county border and working the other side of it. As the law stands today - if they refused to go to work crossing that border they could be sacked perfectly legally.
Even if you decided - ok, we'll redeploy police to other forces, nurses to other hospitals, tescos staff to sainsburies etc. - there are areas where you must cross a border to go anywhere at all (including shopping for essentials, or even to have them delivered!)
Take a look at this map - and tell me how the residents of Fir Tree Farm (in Wales) can drive to get food or other essentials without crossing the Welsh/English border?
No it isn’t
Yep. If you want a much better look, use Bing maps and switch over to Bird's Eye View.
So I looked it up in Bing maps to check for nearby refineries and it turns out to be in an underpopulated area and not near any other refineries. The bad news its right next to a freeway. The funny part is its a quarter mile from a Harvey Cemetery.
Stitched image on google. You'll see the square if you zoom out and it goes away if you zoom in.
Not sure where you're from, but if you've ever driven from Ca to Vegas you'll see an abandoned water park (Think raging waters style) about 20-30 minutes north of Barstow. That's where they held EDC 1999. Sadly, they still got noise complaints even though the closest human neighbor in earshot is about 15 miles away lol.
Good god, that's pretty remote!
Just goes to show, when you can't get to an event, just make one yourself!
Despite the pelters it takes, Bing is good for this kind of thing as the maps have an OS layer.
The area has lots of footpaths and lovely scenery. The pub in Ecchinswell is still open and does a good Sunday lunch.
For those wanting to visit it, but are to lazy to search for it.. Here is the location on Bing Maps: https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=adb58fc1-23fe-4e7a-8c3f-d25a5ee07ae6&cp=-28.627406\~132.207953&lvl=15&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
I went through Pactolus once on my way to Honolulu.
If you want to compare Denver to Auckland, here's what ~550k USD would buy you.
Some highlights: $574k will get you 106 sqm in 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath in our downtown area. You also get to shell out $800 per month in homeowners association fees.
In our eastern suburb, $599k will get you 175 sqm in a 3BR/2BA format. Western Denver gets you closer to 170sqm in a 3BR/3BA form.
You might find some floorplans somewhere in all of that.
If you don't want to deal with traffic in Uptown, you can just park at the Westpark/Lower Uptown Transit Center and take the METRORapid Silver Line to the Galleria Mall. It's a bus with minimal stops and minimal traffic light interference. Here's more info about the route.
No, it was a path I'd never been on before, from Logan Cottage, between Glencorse and Loganlee and the SE corner of Threipmuir, it's not marked on most maps, but it has a good landrover path to begin
There is one here. They are an official Seiko reseller but also sell/repair other brands.
There was also a hole in the wall a few years ago, but I don't know if they still work.
if you do kinderscout, I'd advise avoiding grindsbrook clough, especially down it. Head up the hill just to the west, or walk along to jacobs ladder (which sets you up nicely to walk up to kinder downfall and loop back across the moor path if the weather is ok).
https://www.bing.com/maps set the overlay to ordinance survey and zoom in for the detailed maps and names.
closer to you is the roaches and luds church, which is a nice walk, and you can see the peregrine falcons if you are lucky that are resident on the roaches, which is always nice.
You have a full itinerary and don't need to add but there are the following:
UT state parks - Snow Canyon, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Kodachrome Basin, Escalante Petrified Forest, Goblin Valley, Dead Horse Pt, Goosenecks.
National Monuments - Cedar Breaks, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Bears Ears, Canyon de Chelly, more.
You're also missing Capitol Reef and that deserves at least a quick stop on your way to Moab.
BTW, Bing Maps allows up to 25 stops.
Not to be too classist, but I would choose Camden over the other two, less of a T-shirt town. Good dining, nice hikes, excellent shopping, and some pretty sick B&Bs (CastleView by the Sea). Plus, Rockland and Belfast are an easy drive if you get sick of Camden.
Click on "My Places" at the top to the right of the search box, then you can edit them. I don't see a way to do it from within the Maps app itself.
Edit - I figured it out on the app. Go to where your Home is on the map, pick it, then on the left hand side pick New Location.
Same when viewed on Bing maps. Just a metal roof.
https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=908c1df9-356f-4c55-812a-011a2f024acd&cp=19.489559~-154.820428&lvl=19&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
The Polar Bear area... pan to the left to see the cars and coaches to get a scale of the ponds / areas they have.... (couldn't use a banana - they are far too small)
I fed one of their polar bears some cod-liver oil from a watering can once (I was working on an event there and just happened to be in the right place at the right time when someone mentioned it, and took up the offer)..... quite an experience!
its a sunken barge - take a look at this Bing map
https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=0ed02f96-18cd-4df3-b14b-fc6064077e76&cp=40.825355~-73.648645&lvl=19&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
Blurred on maps as well. Call the German ambassador
If it's Bing imagery, I imagine it will look exactly like it does on Bing.
I think "Lars" just refers to your first ancestor named Lars, of Sibbo.
There's a tiny farm hamlet named Sibbo just north of Utterbäck.
It may also have been called Sibberboda at some point.
Baggot Street/Waterloo Road junction. Old Baggot St hospital/GMHS is just to far left out of frame and the old St.Martins House building on the lower left has been completely redeveloped into fancy offices called the Waterloo Exchange.
There is a Chesterton Town Council meeting this Monday, June 8, 2020. The Chesterton Police Department, as far as they are aware, said the Town Council will hold this meeting remotely, like all the others during the pandemic.
During normal times, the Town Council Meetings are held at 726 Broadway, Chesterton, IN 46304 at 7:00 PM. This would be a perfect place and time to stage a protest in solidarity of those who have unjustly lost their lives to police brutality and the politicians and local officials that let them get away from it time after time.
I am not on FaceBook, but if anyone sees any organized activities for the upcoming Town Council Meeting, would they please post the information here?
Found it using bing maps. Southbound on George Washington Highway, Chesapeake, Virginia, USA. "Cooper's Restaurant" and then a 'Q' gas station selling for $3.49/gallon.
https://www.bing.com/maps?toWww=1&redig=61C9A0939C3146E5A7312899C0DACA12
At the parking lot of the abandoned Giant Eagle here
Probably from the rocky shoulder at 52°55'52.30"N 4° 1'59.48"W. If you look at the OS map there's a handy footpath over it, and if you look at Google Earth terrain it's pretty easy to replicate that perspective if you take into account that the OP's picture is taken with (or painted from a photo taken with, can't quite tell) a fairly long lens.
Aye, if it's something unusual it's often worth comparing several maps, especially to openstreetmap incase somebody local or otherwise familiar with a site has made an edit. You'll often find that folk have a specific interest in certain things as well, like with underground stuff you've got Subterranea Britannica.
For this specific site you've got a much clearer bird's eye view on Bing Maps. See that thing in the bottom right hand corner by the fence, that's a radio signal tower disguised as a tree! A mobile mast disguised simply to blend in with the environment would probably be the official explanation but... ;)
They were posted around the theater his talk was in, the First Ontario Concert Hall
> Dunder Mifflin Scranton building
Really? Here it still works. Link expands to https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=41d91a86-5c06-4061-a21e-a10de0e660a5&cp=14.388918~-80.24785&lvl=11&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027 and gives me this: https://imgur.com/pWQeJb3
You could head north on I35 and play two courses at Winstar Casino and Turtle Creek in Muenster, TX. https://www.bing.com/maps?&ty=17&q=golf%20course%20in%20gainesville%2c%20tx&ppois=33.6495895385742_-97.2057952880859_Gainesville%20Municipal%20Golf%20Course_YN836x400192988~33.5694313049316_-97.0146408081055_Lake%20Kiowa%20Golf%20Cours...
So the explanation is:
Bing makes Firefox redirect the request to Maps App
I don't use a Maps App, so, it then redirects back to Firefox
And Firefox decides to load Google, despite my search engine settings making Bing the default?
Edit: I just checked what kind of link it pushes. A https://www.bing.com/maps? blah blah blah
I'm going to put this link in my desktop and see what happens
Edit 2: Exact link works perfectly on desktop. No redirecting to google. All the link is is my query, then the three results with Names/ID numbers per Bing Database and their GPS Coordinates, and then a suffix of &v=2&sV=1&FORM=MAPAGG
So is MAPAGG the problem, redirecting me to my maps app and thus to google in firefox?
Edit 3: OK, nope, fuck it. So, I was still in Request Desktop Mode. Bing just refuses to serve up mobile maps. If I go to that link on my mobile, and then turn off Request Desktop Mode, it redirects me to a non-map list of results:
www.bing.com/entityexplore/?&amp;eeptype=MapEntity&amp;q=MyQuery
So all in all, all fault lies on Bing on this one. Not sure why they want me going to Google. Not sure why they can't pass the correct query to Google either.
Edit 4: And just for curiosity sake... I tried with the initial query as mobile. The Maps link, I Couldn't get, I could only choose to save image. Whatever. The Directions link? EXPLICITLY to Google. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/My+location/*NAME*,*ADDRESS*/@*GPS_Coordinates*,8z/
Los Angeles county is, first of all, enormous. It includes central LA, the coastline, and even the two islands south of the mainland.
So why does that matter?
The coastline, especially that around Palos Verdes, is jaw dropping stunning. I can try to describe just how stunning it is, but you have to see it to fully experience the "wow" factor. The coastline homes are where the upper class live. They literally have peacocks walking around Lunada bay. Trump built a golf course just close to San Pedro as well, and it is also amazing to see.
But then there's the inner part of LA....
And the place is congested, dirty, middle to low class (except for the houses in the hills, in beverly hills), and segregated by race and creed. I always tell those who want to visit LA that there are a handful of things to see: Art museums, Universal Studio/city walk, Disneyland, and maybe the Hollywood sign / observatory. Otherwise, it's just a hot mess. I call it the armpit of California.
So why stay in LA?
There are some decent paying jobs, and a multitude of industries to work in. It's easy to make connections as there are numerous colleges in the LA county. Food is decentish; sports fans are aplenty; and there's always a nightlife.
Hope that helps put some perspective in place. FYI: traffic blows unless travelling at 11pm.
It's the Bishop Road Primary School in Bishopston, Bristol.
You can see the bollards on the recent Google street view. Bing Maps shows the before picture.
It's just Google's POS "smart" rendering; if their algorithm can't do it right, they shouldn't even try.
Here's the same location in Bing.
And in What3Words (You have to click "Satellite" and zoom in after the page loads.)
> Washington Hospital Center
is VERY close to SR murder site (Bloomingdale) - just blocks to the south
> Washington Hospital Center
is VERY close to SR murder site (Bloomingdale) - just blocks to the south
Yep, a spa with an out door hot-tub in the back of the building (on the same floor).