Spamming Google Maps

An anonymous reader writes "Google organized a flyover of Sydney, Australia last Friday for Australia Day. The images taken on the day will be posted to Google Maps in a few weeks. A number of dotcoms spent hours making huge signs that would be visible from the air. It will be interesting to see whether Google will repeat the event in other cities. If they do, get prepared early. What sign would you make?"

Of course

[LlamaDragon]

"Hi Mom!"

She always loves that.

Naughty naughty

[rawket.scientist]

An arrow pointing to my asshole neighbor's house with the caption "Unsecured wireless network here!!"

"Here's your sign"

[wowbagger]

There's only one thing to put on such a sign:

"Mostly Harmless"

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

[Fuyu]

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

I'm still waiting for this area to be updated

[markh1967]

Where I live right now is just a very low-res blur on Google Earth and Maps. We've had a banner on the roof of our garage that reads "Fuck off Google!" in 3' high letters for the past two years just waiting for the day they update their imagery. We're still waiting...

Re:Of course

[Anonymous Coward]

Troll? WTF?

Sometimes you really have to wonder about the moderation system...

Nothing to see...

[Anonymous Coward]

What else would a /. reader put up if not:

"Nothing to see here, move on"

(preferably in ASCII art)

Bullseye

[krygny]

If you look at the roof of the Target store in College Point, NY, there's a huge logo. Not such a good idea.

Does it matter...

[ForestGrump]

Does it really matter when google has spammed first?

For example, look
here [google.com]. It is off the california coast, near LAX.

Grump

Nah, you can see penis drawing from space

[Mr. McD]

This fine rooftop example for instance:

http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1211&c=&t=k&hl =en&ll=54.506361,-1.35223&z=19 [googlesightseeing.com]

Or this gem in Arizona:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=85022&ie=U TF8&z=17&ll=33.634542,-112.059485&spn=0.004582,0.0 13475&t=k&om=1 [google.com]

As long as they had a ballpark sized ad, they should be ok.

Ryan-

Re:None

[Anonymous Coward]

But a giant goatse.cx recreation would be funny.

this field is...

[picob]

Intentionally Left Blank

goatse

[smoker2]

see subject (if you're exceptionally unlucky ! )

An old nostalgic favourite...

[RealGrouchy]

"Here be dragons!"

- RG>

Re:Chimpeach!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's clever... I was going to go with "Kill Bush", but yours is punnier.

We will be along very soon. I take my coffee black, by the way.

Signed,

The Secret Service

Re:Penis Spam on GoogleMaps

[kleptonin]

You're just jealous because they're bigger than yours.

Re:Bullseye

[maxwells_deamon]

So if I am flying over this is a hot air balloon, do I have permission to drop things on that roof?

Re:Bullseye

[1u3hr]

If you look at the roof of the Target store in College Point, NY, there's a huge logo. Not such a good idea.

Why isn;t it a good idea?

Terrorists? Martians? Pigeons?

Re:"Here's your sign"

[SkyDude]

There's only one thing to put on such a sign: "Mostly Harmless"

C'mon, we're geeks here: "Hello world" is what belongs on the sign

Douglas Adams

[smilinggoat]

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

We apologise for the inconvenience

[nietsch]

If we're doing hitchhikers guide the sign should be in big flaming letters saying 'we apologise for the inconvenience'

Wouldn't that be a nice message from dog?

Btw: Hey Wow where is my insult?

Re:Bullseye

[jlindy]

Gives a whole new meaning to "Google bomb"

Re:None

[harlows_monkeys]

Uhm...if Google maps gets you to the right intersection, and then you can't take over from there and figure out which of the four corners has the Taco Bell, you shouldn't be going out for food on your own in the first place.

YOUR AD HERE

[cavehobbit]

what else?

Maybe a giant goatse?

Re:how could anyone forget....

[gardyloo]

I can't decide whether you're talking about the parent poster's mom or not, but I like it either way.

Re:None

[that this is not und]

Where are you located. And give us the specific address of the busybodies who attend all the Association meetings. Because right now is when we can buy 100 pound bags of clover seed at the lowest price.

You'll be responsible for the followup, though, going to the association meetings and getting a restriction placed on how often people can spray their lawns with 'weed killer' (for the 'good of the children and pets' remember)

Re:None

[Dachannien]

Around here, there's only room for one Starbucks per intersection, what with all the CVSes, Walgreenses, and Rite-Aids in the way.

Re:goatse

[BillX]

Thanks for that. Now if I ever go to Google and they've added an "I'm feeling exceptionally unlucky!" button, I'm selling my modem and becoming a forest ranger.