Strange Google Map Error, Section of RR Track missing

Started by Brian556, March 24, 2015, 09:22:34 AM

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Brian556

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

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

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.


empirestate

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.)



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