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This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots ...
The simplest way to get coordinates from Google Maps is to right-click on the desired location and click "What's here?". The coordinates are now shown in the search box.
External links Satellite image (Google Maps) Photo of the Badlands Guardian taken from a paraglider 3D diagram of Badlands Guardian topography, prepared by Lutz Perschon for CBC Radio. [dead link] Google Earth Community Page about the discovery of the feature.
List of map projections This is a summary of map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable. Because there is no limit to the number of possible map projections, [1] there can be no comprehensive list.
Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator[1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications.
Google Latitude was a location-aware feature of Google Maps, developed by Google as a successor to its earlier SMS -based service Dodgeball. Latitude allowed a mobile phone user to allow certain people to view their current location.
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where, according to an urban legend, [citation needed] a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Null Island is the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. Since there is no landmass located at these coordinates, it is not an actual island. The name is often used in mapping software as a placeholder to help find and correct database entries that ...