Did anyone find Stonehenge on Google Earth?

Factual Questions
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Google Earth has a great (ie priapic) overlay.
GE also has (at least) the following hill figures place marked:

E 0.18888,50.80904,Long Man Wilmington - 1710
W 1.93864,51.06123,Map of Australia - 1916
W 1.73683,51.41222,Marlborough Horse - 1804
W 2.06475,57.60009,Mormond Horse - 1790’s
W 2.02377,57.60244,Mormond Stag - 1870
W 3.21049,56.35121,Newburgh Bear - 1980
W 2.40040,50.65621,Osmington Horse - 1808
W 1.75517,51.32071,Pewsey Horse II - 1937
W 4.06440,51.74670,Port Abraham Teapot - 1992
W 1.97688,51.05360,Post Office Rifles Badge (Fovant) - 1916
W 1.97688,51.05360,Royal Corps of Signals Badge (Fovant) - 1970
W 2.02354,51.04236,Royal Warwickshire Regiment Badge - 1916
W 1.97688,51.05360,Royal hire Yeomanry Badge (Fovant) - 1951
E 0.17485,51.33620,Shoreham Cross - 1921
W 1.67651,52.21218,Stratford Rabbits - 1994
W 1.56414,51.57698,Uffington Horse - 1000BC
W 2.14562,51.26296,Westbury Horse II -W 1778
W 0.50690,51.24723,West Clandon Dragon - 1977
W 0.55388,51.84856,Whipsnade Lion - 1933
W 0.81012,51.72815,Whiteleaf Cross - 1000
W 1.45478,51.11411,Woolbury Horse - 1846
W 1.50518,52.21967,Warwick Swan - 2000
W 0.96781,52.53809,Watlington White Mark - 1764
W 1.97688,51.05360,Wiltshire Regiment Badge (Fovant) - 1945
E 0.96393,51.18053,Wye Crown - 1902
W 1.97688,51.05360,YMCA Badge (Fovant) - 1916
W 0.09164,50.82296,Whitehawk Hawk - 2001
W 1.02669,51.46854,Reading Adverts - 2001
W 4.04023,51.20839,Combe Martin Badge - 1970
E 1.13989,51.10127,Folkestone Horse - 2003
W 1.46800,53.36133,Heeley Horse - 2000
W 1.73803,52.45240,Elmdon

42

Why would someone expect to see a structure only 18" high on Google Earth?

43

Well sure, but of all the henges Stonehenge is certainly the nicest! Yes, it’s a very nice henge. :smiley:
Who am I quoting? Was that an Eddie Izzard?

44

It is probably a combination of gray on gray and low res. I visited Stonehenge in 1964 before they closed it to visitors and it is not small. My son has a sport court in his back yard (in Redmond, WA) and it is clearly visible. You can even see quite clearly a white box in the corner that measures maybe 6’ x 4’. Blew my mind. That is obviously high res.

45

Maybe someone who has seen structures smaller than a car on Google Earth?
The pics in rural areas aren’t very detailed. Try zooming in on an urban area; you may be surprised at what you can see.

46

You can see actual people (or rather their shadows - must have been dusk or dawn) all over Tiananmen Square.

47

As Ruken notes, resolution varies from place to place throughout Google Earth. A few miles East of me, US 422 crosses the La Due Reservoir on a causeway. (I have linked to maps.google but the image is basically the same.) The Western portion is clear enough to show individual cars and trucks and the white lane lines on the highway and you can get down to around 3,700 feet altitude before things get blurry. The frame pasted to the East of that shows an indistinct line on the water and the factories up on the hill are simply vaguely rectangular yellowish blurs that are only about as clear as the 6’ x 4’ picnic table in my back yard (several miles to the West), and the photo gets blurry around 10,000 feet.
Generally, sections colored bright green are taken from farther up with less resolution while the clear photos tend to appear grey from a great height.
The Stonehenge image is not a high resolution image.

48

An interesting variation. The big problem is that the wall is usually only a couple of metres, if that, across.

This image shows the countryside that includes the best known stretch of the Wall: the picturesque sections at Housesteads and to the west. The snag here is that the reason the Romans chose the route in this area - and the reason that it’s picturesque - is that the wall hereabouts usually runs along the tops of a series of crags. These rather handily mark the route of the Wall in the image, but you’re looking at the geology rather than the archaeology.
The three very dark patches in the image are lakes called Greenlee, Broomlee and Crag Loughs. The latter is the southernmost, narrow one just left of centre, along the south side of which runs the Wall. To the south of it there’s the rather obvious modern B6318 road, running in straight sections from left to right and slightly north. Roughly parallel with it to the north is a more irregular, intermittent feature, part of which runs alongside Crag Louch.
That’s not the Wall. But it is the series of crags that it runs along. Due south of the easternmost lake, Broomlee Louch, there’s a brief interruption in this feature. That’s the fort at Housesteads, though it’s hardly obvious as such. With the relevant OS Pathfinder sheet (546) and the old OS map of the Wall - the good version, scandalously long out of print - in front of me, I think I can pick out the modern carpark (the dark feature just where the B6318 kinks) and the museum building (the dark square NW of that).
More interestingly, I think you can just see a little stretch of ditch, about a mile to the west. To the left of Crag Louch there are two stretches of dark linear feature - these are probably shadows from the cargs. Between them is a brown L-shaped patch. This is a wood - and another carpark - where the Wall crosses a little local road running north from the B6318. Running west from this are two lines, which converge on the end of one of the dark linear features. Looking at the Pathfinder map, the lower of these corresponds to the line of the ditch. The Wall itself is just south of that, but I’m not sure it’s visible.

The caveat is that it’s not obvious that this is directly even the ditch that you can see. Over the centuries, the presence of the Wall has tended to shape its immediate environment. What we may actually be seeing is the modern Pennine Way footpath, tramped out over the decades by people walking this bit of the Wall.

49

Louch = Lough.

I obviously unconciously want to call them Lochs.

50

I’d like to know … what the hell is this?

51

It’s Waterloo station.

52

You mean the train depot?

53

At a guess you’re getting confused not about Waterloo Station but about about the odd view of the nearby London Eye, the giant Ferris wheel on the river.

54

Snake eating a railway station?

55

I dunno about that, bonzer… When you zoom in on it, that looks pretty clearly like a Ferris wheel.

56

–Chanelling Paul Hogan–

That’s not a Ferris Wheel. THAT’S a Ferris Wheel.

– /Chanelling Paul Hogan–

:smiley:

this Stonehenge view shows the carpark in the upper background.

22 feet hight is not so much, and it’s asking a lot to be able to view the stones- which are not so thick viewed from the sky. The low-aerial views are spectacular, though.