# Unusual things found on Google Maps **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-found-on-google-maps/584926 "2011-06-10T01:01:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-found-on-google-maps/584926/41 "2012-05-28T01:22:48Z")
Go into street view at: Rugdeveien 39 5097 Bergen, Norway and also 30.603437,-104.518476 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-found-on-google-maps/584926/42 "2012-05-28T02:11:24Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > When google earth had just started, a neighbor’s kid got caught mowing curse words into a farmer’s crop field. The word was F\* U mowed into a 100 acre field. Talk about bad timming. “Who are you who are so wise in the ways of crop circles?” ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-found-on-google-maps/584926/43 "2012-05-28T12:19:00Z")
> [@furt](#): > > Go into street view at: > > _snip_ > > 30.603437,-104.518476 That’s actually a [sculpture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prada_Marfa). ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-found-on-google-maps/584926/44 "2012-05-28T13:39:01Z")
> [@furt](#): > > Go into street view at: > > Rugdeveien 39 5097 Bergen, Norway > > and also > > 30.603437,-104.518476 OK, I tried the first of these: guys in scuba gear walking in the street, blurred out until you mouse over the right spot. Then I tried the second, which took me to a map of a highway in New Mexico. When I went into street view there I found myself back on the Norwegian Street with the scuba guys. 😕 A second try on the New Mexico coordinates, when I put the little street view man on the green arrow instead of the orange teardrop, got me a slightly different view of the Norwegian Street (at least, I suppose it is in Norway, I am starting to doubt Google’s truthfulness now), but the guys in scuba gear were now sitting in folding chairs by the roadside. 😕 I gather from **postcards** ’ post, that what I am supposed to see at the second coordinates is a (fake) Prada outlet in the middle of the New Mexico dessert, but my street view is stuck in suburban Norway. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-found-on-google-maps/584926/45 "2012-05-28T14:30:14Z")
[Big toy?](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Artesina+in+Italy&t=k&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=44.243946,7.769501&spn=0.004788,0.006877&z=17&iwloc=addr) ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-found-on-google-maps/584926/46 "2012-05-28T19:25:56Z")
Over a year ago, I was in Las Vegas, waiting outside the Neon Graveyard, when I saw one of the street camera cars drive by. I waved at it, assuming it was a Google Streets car. Sadly, it turned out to be just for Bing Maps. But I’m there, on Bing Street Maps! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-things-found-on-google-maps/584926.md?page=2)