Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps 280
Toramir writes "Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps, would cross above their city and used people to make a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea of an entire town working hard to get its 15 minutes of fame. The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event."
You know what... (Score:5, Funny)
Google will have to remove the pic (Score:5, Funny)
or the copyright owners of the smiley face will issue a DMCA take down notice.
Whether that would really happen or not, the news has become so much like the Onion that I kind of expect asshattery like that.
In soviet Russia.. (Score:5, Funny)
Mad (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where exactly? (Score:5, Funny)
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia... (Score:5, Funny)
Rick Rolled? (Score:0, Funny)
I think we just got Rick Rolled.
Re:In soviet Russia.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Google will have to remove the pic (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, smiley face owns copyright on DMCA!
In future Soviet USA, they skip take down notice. Instead send you straight to a DMCA Forced Work Camp in Alaska. Where you will transcribe entire works of Disney, by hand.
Re:Where exactly? (Score:5, Funny)
For those who absolutely refused to read the article, here is an artist's impression
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Re:Where is it? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where exactly? (Score:2, Funny)
It appears as if the smiley was photoshopped in or out of one of the pictures.
Yes, it appears as if the smiley may have been added to the image using Adobe Photoshop software. Adobe Trademark Use [adobe.com]
That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
You should see how many things in the U.S. are named after Ronald Reagan!
Re:Lenina? (Score:3, Funny)
Palin is a heroine. She once drilled oil with her bare hands.
Re:Where exactly? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where exactly? (Score:5, Funny)
I disagree. I can provide a better artist's impression: :D
Re:Fake images (Score:5, Funny)
No, the purpose of a cinema is to sell popcorn. It's actually quite the opposite of karma whoring.
Re:Here's an example of the real thing (Score:2, Funny)
Shh! You FOOL! Those are Wall Mart's cover story for their impending death-satellite campaign. You're not supposed to mention them until AFTER the attack.
One more word outa you, and you'll be a door greeter in Topeka for the next 5 years.
ALL HAIL WALLMART!
Re:Yes, Lenina (Score:1, Funny)
I think he was comparing the desire to forget a nasty period of history, not equating the crimes perpetrated by the respective historical figures.
Me, I'm wondering how many girls born in 80s Scotland were named Margaret.
Bad teeth (Score:2, Funny)
(Disclaimer: I say this as a Hungarian with bad teeth.
In soviet Russia.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where exactly? (Score:3, Funny)
Nothing in Russian google maps
http://maps.google.ru/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=chelyabinsk+russia&ie=UTF8&ll=55.160141,61.402341&spn=0.005075,0.016522&t=h&z=17 [google.ru]
Re:Where exactly? (Score:5, Funny)
^_^
bleh (Score:4, Funny)
I'm more impressed that they made their park a union jack, I guess that was put up a 100+ years ago, so maybe they just have a history of sucking up to the powers that be..
Re:In soviet Russia.. (Score:1, Funny)
In soviet Russia, we know when the American satellites are coming!
Because outer space is not maintained by the U.S.A. Art Buchwald, upon hearing the plans for moving Minuteman missiles in a secret underground tunnel network so that the Russians would not know where the missiles were at any point of time, instead proposed using AmTrak for moving the missiles around.
And in order to make sure the Russians never knew where the missiles were, to give them the train schedules.
I think they actually heeded his advice in so far as railroads were indeed used for that purpose. I don't know whether they also followed his suggestion of handing over the train schedules. There are probably treaties against that kind of infamy.
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
But there's only one thing named after George Bush, sadly that thing is still running the country.
Re:Where exactly? (Score:5, Funny)
Off-topic, I know, but I'd never seen this before, and I found it quite funny.
Trademarks are not verbs, therefore verbs are not trademarks, therefore 'photoshopped' is not a trademark, and can therefore be used freely. Or am I applying logic where none applies? (Yes, I know, trademark law probably covers stuff like this.)
I tried to Google for an authoritative answer, but didn't come up with anything.
Re:Where exactly? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where exactly? (Score:5, Funny)
That makes me angry. They go through all the trouble of handing out yellow capes to hundreds of people. They tell them where to stand, and they probably have to wait there for quite a time while the satellite passes over. They have to block traffic, and business, etc. Then some humourless drone down at Google goes and photoshops all that work away. It was probably done by the same sourpuss person who got rid of the "Swim across the Atlantic" instruction you used to get when asking for directions from New York to London, England.
Re:Where exactly? (Score:3, Funny)
It was definitely 'shopped, but I did manage to find a real instance of this happening. It was in Central Park, NY, weird...
Here's a screenshot:
http://05lan.dyndns.org/public/centralpark.JPG [dyndns.org]
This one is definitely not photoshopped.
Re:Where exactly? (Score:3, Funny)
It's 3 bytes actually, he added a space there ;)
Re:Finally, a way GIMP is definitely superior! (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah... "I gimped Bob into the company photo" will go over real well.