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Non-Road Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Brian556 on March 24, 2015, 09:22:34 AM

Title: Strange Google Map Error, Section of RR Track missing
Post by: Brian556 on March 24, 2015, 09:22:34 AM
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.452815,-97.961997&spn=0.012168,0.024784&t=h&z=16 (https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.452815,-97.961997&spn=0.012168,0.024784&t=h&z=16)

GSV in the missing section shows the track exists.:
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.452673,-97.961995&spn=0.000035,0.024784&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=36.452673,-97.961995&panoid=v70E6DynwHRdrEThF2Xq7g&cbp=12,315,,0,0 (https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.452673,-97.961995&spn=0.000035,0.024784&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=36.452673,-97.961995&panoid=v70E6DynwHRdrEThF2Xq7g&cbp=12,315,,0,0)

Wider view, with more craziness. Another track is turned at an odd angle:
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.451044,-97.951012&spn=0.024336,0.049567&t=h&z=15 (https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.451044,-97.951012&spn=0.024336,0.049567&t=h&z=15)

I can't figure out how to report this. When you click "report", it just takes you to worthless instructions with no way to actually report the issue.
Title: Re: Strange Google Map Error, Section of RR Track missing
Post by: empirestate on March 24, 2015, 09:35:48 AM
The piece of track at the odd angle in your second view is actually the one missing from your first. Look further to the east and you'll see the correctly-angled piece of trackbed for the second rail line (looks abandoned).

Seems to be a case of badly-stitched aerial photography. There's often some manual* editing to make individual orthoimagery tiles appear more seamless, and sometimes they do it wrong.

(*Could be an automated process, actually, with the anomaly caused by an erroneous photo-mosaicking operation.)