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  1. 01-May-2008 #1
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    WikiMapia - Random place on the planet thread...

    Note: Some version of Internet Explorer may not work correctly with Wikimapia...

    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=53.681322&lon=-1.543868&z=19

    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.5774154...0.6970163&z=12 (Go to the page and click on the '+' zoom in a couple of times... )

    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=32.155868&...0.8270097&z=16
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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  2. 01-May-2008 #2
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    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=39.0694087...18&l=0&m=a&v=2
    "The bumps you feel are asteroids smashing into the hull."
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  3. 01-May-2008 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by scipio70 View Post
    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=39.0694087...18&l=0&m=a&v=2
    OK! That's prettttty random? Wasit?

    ps: Did you like my 2nd one? Where you have to zoom in?
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    I zoomed in but I dont get what Im supposed to be seeing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    OK! That's prettttty random? Wasit?

    ps: Did you like my 2nd one? Where you have to zoom in?
    that is the place i went to high school. not exactly random, although i did randomly select it from places i am familiar with. before the fieldhouse was added and a few other additions over the last few years it used to look like the letter A from the air (still kinda does) for Anderson.

    on another note - i have no idea why finneytown shows up in that info bar - that is miles and miles away on the other side of the county.

    yes the second one was cool.

    here's another:

    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=43.97&lon=...13&l=0&m=a&v=2

    and one more:

    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=44.3025986...14&l=0&m=a&v=2
    Last edited by Mike70; 02-May-2008 at 01:07 AM.
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    http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-33.78...1.2894436&z=21


    Quote Originally Posted by Terran View Post
    I zoomed in but I dont get what Im supposed to be seeing
    So you don't zoom in and end up on an Air Canada plan...? http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.5774154...0.6970163&z=12
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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  7. 03-May-2008 #7
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    This just looks like a patchwork quilt!
    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.4114048...7.7590942&z=12


    Looks like an alien planet!
    http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=25.413...2.1443939&z=11
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-33.78...1.2894436&z=21




    So you don't zoom in and end up on an Air Canada plan...? http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.5774154...0.6970163&z=12

    Now I do....it wasnt doing that before.
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    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=65.7853211...11&l=0&m=a&v=2
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    Quote Originally Posted by mista_mo View Post
    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=65.7853211...11&l=0&m=a&v=2
    Similar to yours http://wikimapia.org/#lat=67.6141897...5.4218292&z=11
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=40.666...73.414567&z=19
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=40.666...73.414567&z=19
    so whose palatial estate on long island is that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by scipio70 View Post
    so whose palatial estate on long island is that?
    You not getting the boxes & descriptions? I suspect you're using a old(er) version of IE? Try it with Firefox...

    The whole idea of Wikimapea is that just like Wikipedia anyone can comment on anything. So you could find your car pasked on a street and draw box around it and put a description on it...
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    You not getting the boxes & descriptions? I suspect you're using a old(er) version of IE? Try it with Firefox...

    The whole idea of Wikimapea is that just like Wikipedia anyone can comment on anything. So you could find your car pasked on a street and draw box around it and put a description on it...
    i got it now. amityville horror location. that is pretty cool.
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    http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=35.690...19&l=0&m=a&v=2

    I found this and it was so random it made me laugh. It was not what I was expecting to find where I was looking.
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