Fun with Google maps.

[HubZilla]

Fun with Hawaii streetnames.

Try giving directions around this neighborhood)

[silenus]

@Airblairxxx

I’m sorry, but is that a golf course right next to the pyramids of Giza?

Yep. Looks like a nice little 9 hole course. The King Khufu Country Club (Restricted).

[MrDibble]

@Colophon

That is neat. Look at the colour of those glacial lakes.

And is this the lava?

Yes (I think)

@Colophon

What a fantastic place that would be to visit.

Yes, I think so. There is a small French research post and some (3500) sheep, and from what I’ve read, several abandoned whaling posts on the smaller islands.

They also have there own (indigenous) cabbage .

The islands appear in more fiction that I would have imagined given their relative obscurity.

But what I think is really cool is that the island is just the high point of an entire sunken microcontinent that was above the waters as little as 20 million years ago…

…and here Lovecraft thought R’lyeh was in the Pacific! fhtagn

[TheLoadedDog]

World’s biggest advertising sign

Situated 800 kilometres east of Perth near the midpoint of the Eyre Highway, the “diamond in the desert” was once a familiar sight along what used to be the trans-continental flight route during the 1960s and '70s.

Each side of the diamond measures 1.8 kilometres. The letters that spell out “READYMIX” are 240 metres high by 180 metres wide, with each stroke estimated to be about 12 metres wide.

[GorillaMan]

@HubZilla

Fun with Hawaii streetnames.

Try giving directions around this neighborhood)

Likewise in Yorkshire: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=adel&sll=21.400755,-157.957757&sspn=0.006813,0.014849&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=53.858488,-1.60498&spn=0.004315,0.01133&t=h&om=1

[TheLoadedDog]

@GorillaMan

Likewise in Yorkshire: Google Maps

AS a postal worker, I can say that British addresses are my favourite. Do anything, but don’t have any numbers in it!

“Cherrywood”
The Oaks
Smithton Mews
Goatwater Lane
Rumpy and Pumpy
Nr. Dopersville (East)
BUCKS
UK
(leave at side door, servant’s quarters)

[ElvisL1ves]

I posted in the wrong thread, sorry. The loop ramps on the Macau/China border switch cars between sides of the road. They drive on the left in Macau and Hong Kong, and on the right in China.

[GorillaMan]

@ElvisL1ves

I posted in the wrong thread, sorry. The loop ramps on the Macau/China border switch cars between sides of the road. They drive on the left in Macau and Hong Kong, and on the right in China.

No shit, Sherlock: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8281264&postcount=5

[Colophon]

@Airblairxxx

I’m sorry, but is that a golf course right next to the pyramids of Giza?

From that picture, it looks as if the pyramids are about to be swallowed up by American-style suburban sprawl.

I was about to post the same thing. A golf course.

I had heard that the pyramids are basically in the suburbs of Cairo, but that golf course is only 200 yards away from the pyramid!

[Sunspace]

@HubZilla

Fun with Hawaii streetnames.

Try giving directions around this neighborhood)

Hoo-boy.

[Sunspace]

Re: North Korea.

This appears to be the North/South Korean border, with a new-looking South Korean train station and road customs complex on the right. Not how the rail line dwindles to one track after crossing the border, and there appears to be NO traffic. I followed the road and rail line into North Korea, and they enter a town that appears to be half-built. And there is still NO traffic.

Somewhere to the northeast of here, I found what I believe to the the neutral Treaty Village between North and South Korea, but I lost it again.