# Share your GoogleEarth 'what is that?' **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-googleearth-what-is-that/347190 "2006-03-05T23:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-googleearth-what-is-that/347190/101 "2006-03-16T22:46:24Z")
> [@Baraqiyal](#): > > In my neighborhood there’s [this](http://www.google.com/lochp?hl=en&q=&t=k&ll=37.784351,-122.325039&spn=0.02944,0.05785&t=k) highway to nowhere. It’s actually the freeway built for the movie Matrix Reloaded. There’s not much there now, except once a month it turns into a huge antiques fair. There’s more on that [here](http://www.norcalmovies.com/TheMatrixReloaded/FreewayChase/). I’m pretty sure _Mythbusters_ films there, too, when they’re blowing things up and crashing cars. Their [usual digs](http://www.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&ll=37.750375,-122.395694&spn=0.001086,0.002677&t=k) are a bit small, plus they don’t want to disturb the Yellow Taxi fuel station just up the block. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-googleearth-what-is-that/347190/102 "2006-03-16T23:52:27Z")
Ok, another question. When I go directly to google maps, I get the map that takes up the right half of the screen and the left half contains text the gives example search help. How do I get from there to full screen maps that some of you are linking to? ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-googleearth-what-is-that/347190/103 "2006-03-17T00:16:41Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Google Earth indicates that the line corresponds to the northern edge of some sort of park. Yes, it’s the border between the US and Canada in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. [Here](http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=12&X=1436&Y=27156&W=3&qs=%7cBabb%7cMontana%7c) is a shot with much better resolution, albeit in black and white. On another message board that no longer exists, someone once posted a shot of it from the lake. It’s really too bad, because it shows how rough the terrain is and how thoroughly they cleared that area of trees. > [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > There’s more on that [here](http://www.norcalmovies.com/TheMatrixReloaded/FreewayChase/). > > I’m pretty sure _Mythbusters_ films there, too, when they’re blowing things up and crashing cars. Their [usual digs](http://www.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&ll=37.750375,-122.395694&spn=0.001086,0.002677&t=k) are a bit small, plus they don’t want to disturb the Yellow Taxi fuel station just up the block. Yeah, I can see several places there that might have accommodated the rig for their semi-crash experiment involving two trucks and a small car donated by a viewer. The most likely place seems to me to be the inverted “T” formed at the southern edge of the airfield. > [@Danalan](#): > > [Holes.](http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.442232,-113.529695&spn=0.003206,0.005289&t=h) I don’t know if I cheated by doing this, but I zoomed out and saw that this was in Southern Idaho. As such those would be the cinder cones of [Craters of the Moon National Monument](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craters_of_the_Moon_National_Monument). It’s a neat place with the remnants of fairly recent lava flows and huge lava tubes to explore. > [@scr4](#): > > Another [ghost airplane](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.597076,139.826303&spn=0.005906,0.010064&t=k). That’s awesome! It must be a plane they caught in-flight. You can see it’s shadow up and to the right. I guess the “ghost” is an artifact of the motion. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-googleearth-what-is-that/347190/104 "2006-03-17T00:23:18Z")
[This](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=&ll=37.328246,-121.893219&spn=0.000936,0.002682&t=h) site in San Jose kind of looks like a baseball field, doesn’t it? But what’s that blue thing? [The answer](http://www.monopolyinthepark.com/) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-googleearth-what-is-that/347190/105 "2006-03-17T00:26:35Z")
[Hooray for this!](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ll=34.134109,-118.321794&spn=0.000975,0.002682&t=k) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-googleearth-what-is-that/347190/106 "2006-03-17T00:36:49Z")
Good grief! What’s that [curlicue thing?](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2301+hardies+lane,+santa+rosa,+ca&ll=38.460083,-122.735594&spn=0.001844,0.005364&t=k) [The answer](http://www.schulzmuseum.org/labyrinth/index.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-googleearth-what-is-that/347190.md?page=5)