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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Why is there an embassy there?!? It had to be within walking distance of Tim Hortons
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it's probably one of the honorary embassies or whatever, and thus just the home of the person who is the "ambassador"
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Mano posted:it's probably one of the honorary embassies or whatever, and thus just the home of the person who is the "ambassador"
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Jun 17, 2022 14:57
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AFAICT, Angola doesn’t even have an embassy in Canada. It closed in 2018.
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Angepain posted:
This is great, had no idea this existed
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Jun 17, 2022 15:14
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Only Angolan government cares about it's people enough to have an embassy in the northern most town on Earth.
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Canada kicked out all Angolan immigrants. If they wanted to stay, they would have to get their names on a list for a one-time formal group appeal by the Angolan ambassador. The only way to get on this list was in person at the Angolan embassy, which the Canadian authorities relocated there.
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Count Roland posted:This is great, had no idea this existed It's one of those land formations that you would 100% call out as dumb if it was in a fantasy novel.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Canada kicked out all Angolan immigrants. If they wanted to stay, they would have to get their names on a list for a one-time formal group appeal by the Angolan ambassador. The only way to get on this list was in person at the Angolan embassy, which the Canadian authorities relocated there. cant tell if youre joking, thats the type of poo poo denmark would do
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a pipe smoking dog posted:It's one of those land formations that you would 100% call out as dumb if it was in a fantasy novel. absolutely, this is fake as hell
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Jun 17, 2022 17:32
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I like looking at tiny isolated communities in google maps and there are tons of obviously fake joke pins people add up in Arctic communities like that.
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i think its because back when foursquare came around, facebook launched a "check in" feature & google did their maps location integration too, everyone checked in at like "your moms rear end" (friend's house) but since tech companies are idiots who love data no matter how garbage it is, that poo poo just got passed along with & eventually became ground truth. like, there are multiple cases of people having something removed from eg google maps, but then goog imports data from openstreetmaps or whatever and it comes back. so you have to remove it everywhere, and you can only do that if you can satisfy them all that you are the person or owner of the place in question. at least gdpr has made the process slightly easier /former resident of 69 butt plaza, assville, current resident of 5 Five, fffffffi
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FreudianSlippers posted:I tried to draw Europe from memory and failed miserably Not bad at all except the overcompensation regarding Greenland's size, while still leaving the Scandinavian Peninsula absolutely enormous. I doubt I could do better. One useful thing to remember about the North African coastline is that Tunisia sort of juts out on one side, there's a decently long stretch where the coast runs north-south.
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Pakled posted:I like looking at tiny isolated communities in google maps and there are tons of obviously fake joke pins people add up in Arctic communities like that.       some truths are better thought fiction
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Like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you want to draw your memory map of Europe, but don't want to be the first poster to start the derail where everyone draws their memory maps
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theres that dude who lives right on the idk albuquerque airport who painted "welcome to minneapolis" on his roof (replace those two cities with whatever is correct)
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Carthag Tuek posted:theres that dude who lives right on the idk albuquerque airport who painted "welcome to minneapolis" on his roof This YouTuber did the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya_LluCl16k
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Like, subscribe, and hit the bell if you want to draw your memory map of Europe, but don't want to be the first poster to start the derail where everyone draws their memory maps That first map looks like Bismarck’s fever dream during the Congress of Berlin. “1. Settle the Russo-Turkish War by wiping Bulgaria off the face of the earth. 2. Demonstrate the ‘alignment’ of the Balkans towards Germany to justify German leadership. 3. Emphasize Germany, Russia, Austria, and France. 4. The rest is immaterial.”
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Look at that border gore! Sharks are literally eating our lands. 
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Jun 18, 2022 11:18
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I see four green dots around Australia and two in the Indian Ocean east of Africa. Where is the seventh?
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Platystemon posted:I see four green dots around Australia and two in the Indian Ocean east of Africa. Where is the seventh? Australia
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Platystemon posted:I see four green dots around Australia and two in the Indian Ocean east of Africa. Where is the seventh? Right behind you
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adhuin posted:Australia 
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Jun 18, 2022 11:40
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Looks like we're winning
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Platystemon posted:I see four green dots around Australia and two in the Indian Ocean east of Africa. Where is the seventh? Inside a shark. Duh.
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-At the end, he gave me a choice - between a life of comfort... or more torture. All I had to do was to say that... I could see five dots, when in fact there were only four. -You didn't say it. -No. No. But I was going to. I would've told him anything. Anything at all. But more than that - I believed that I could see... five dots.
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Pakled posted:I like looking at tiny isolated communities in google maps I assume I'm the only weirdo who does this, but sometimes I boot up Google Earth, go to a random city on the other side of the world, and then just virtually stroll around in it using Street View for a bit. Say what you will about Google, but I'm still in awe that that's a thing you can actually do. Sometimes I imagine what it would be like to live and/or work there, or what the stories are behind the things I see. For example, just now in Oaxaca, Mexico, I came across this Alcoholics Anonymous meeting place unfortunately located right next to a bar: 
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You're deffo not the only one, GeoGuesser is huge on twitch now.
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Flying around cool locations is the only reason I play MS Flight Simulator.
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I think most people in this thread would spend plenty of time on google maps or equivilant services. I normally keep mine viewing from overhead while switching between satellite with labels off and terrain mode so I can see elevation. To get a feel for a place I'll try to find street view or panoramic photos though I seem to end up in places that don't usually have much material available there. It is indeed remarkable that a tool like this not only exists but is instantly accessible and free. Along with Wikipedia its one of the best fruits of the internet age.
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 I've been using Street View on and off for years, and I find that there is much more 'content' available for it than there used to be. For example, all major South American cities are now accessible, with the exception of the ones in Venezuela and Paraguay. Venezuela perhaps shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, but I wonder what the deal is with Paraguay. Kind of a shame, I wanted to take a look around in Asunción to assess the linguistic situation; see if Guaraní is widely used for signage along with Spanish, things like that.
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I've probably got more hours in gearth than any video game I've ever played lol. I mostly prefer aerial shots though, using street view to just get a feel for a place. Oddly enough bing maps had a good birds eye once upon a time (and a great companion to gearth) but they did something to it and made it worse and I'm very disappointed with them
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Google maps and street view is a fuckin' lifesaver for us poor sense of direction folks. I never go anywhere unfamiliar without checking out the area on there first.
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Are there any good alternatives to google earth? I have a little wishlist of features that other services might have... -Terrain view without labels -Better/clearer national borders -Ability to turn off roads
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This is my favourite thing I've ever found while using google streetview:
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Do we have a dedicated geoguessr thread on the forums? I know loads of people in this thread are map nerds.
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I only use google maps to respond to the question like "what does cities in this small republic in the middle of asia looks like". Generally more than half of the world looks like europe. Not the entire world, mind you, but half of it. Is kind of weird how western infraestructure + western vehicles give everything the same style.
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