The way Google Earth creates it's images sometimes leads to interesting results. I ran across the work of Brooklyn artist Clement Valla who scours Google Earth for screw ups that make for some rather interesting images.
That was fun.
It looks like most of them aren't screw-ups, but just the result of GE not knowing the height of bridges and portraying them at its ground elevation.
Maybe a couple horizontal mis-registration of photo panels also.
A real screw-up would be like the one I used to see with a photo panel having an elevation error so that in 3-D it appeared to float a mile or so above the surrounding terrain.
It looks like Salvador Dali was at the controls that day.
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
Via cryptoquote
DDSM
Those would qualify as some thrill-packed rides if they really existed.
Sometimes I use my 3D mouse just to fly around in GE, you see so much of this and it is stuff down the street
I'm hanging onto this for the next person who calls me questioning my work based on their virtual fly by in GE.
That's a common optical illusion when looking at stereo pairs of rivers with boats/barges in motion. Oftentimes you can view zillion-ton ships floating 200 feet above the water.
