Comments on: 30 Giant Figures Seen from Google Earth

By: rajab

rajab — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:49:22 +0000

On close inspection, Google Earthimagery shows fascinating features, and this site offers a great service to the casual surfer. However, it would be of greater benefit to augemnt the description of each image with citing coordinates of the feature described (especially when small) or, better yet, a kmz file. Some of the smaller features in this page could not be located, and when features shown are not easily found by some viewers they would think the site is publishing phtoshopped images!

By: NTSE Sample papers

NTSE Sample papers — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:59:32 +0000

The figures are amazing and the face of native american is really excellent.

By: RoDRigo

RoDRigo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:28:13 +0000

Hey the monkey you say that’s on Mexico, actually is in Peru, its call nasca or something like that, they where made by the incas, for their gods

By: mark

mark — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:54:57 +0000

super cool.

fyi Google Earth was not a Google creation. It was called ‘Keyhole’ before Google bought it.

-M

By: c

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:09:38 +0000

in pic 3 there are 2 heads, and in the forehead of the main head with the ipod headphones is a devil like face too.

By: Carolita

Carolita — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:53:11 +0000

Several of these images are corn mazes — Arizona Oprah, the Exploding Pumpkin, and the Choo Choo Train, for sure. Corn mazes are a form of agri-tourism wherein a farmer generates revenue by planting a special kind of corn on from one to ten acres of farmland. Mazes are usually planted off-season, so they will be lush and green in the late fall and stand through winter, but are barely recognizable in the summer. They are carefully diagrammed and planted on a grid to make the picture/maze (rather than being cut to shape after they are grown) and the image is usually changed each year. You can find out more — and see lots of aerial photos — at http://www.cornmazesamerica.com/

BTW, they are very successful businesses, too. I know a farmer who makes in excess of $75,000 per year just from tourists visiting his maze, which is only open during the month of October.

By: Tim W

Tim W — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:51:01 +0000

You missed a very old and famous one from England — The Cerne Abbas Giant,,,, One for the ladies I think,,,,,

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:45:20 +0000

Very cool; would have been even more cool if the pictures linked to the location on google maps (satellite), or at least listed the global coordinates so we could look at them ourselves.

By: Aws

Aws — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:48 +0000

cool

By: Pippitypup

Pippitypup — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:38:19 +0000

The smiley face at Versailles is clearly seen in the 17th C maps of the place. Unfortunately the old menagerie is no longer there; it had a rather “masculine” look.