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Spamming Google Maps
An anonymous reader writes "Google organized a flyover of Sydney, Australia last Friday for Australia Day. The images taken on the day will be posted to Google Maps in a few weeks. A number of dotcoms spent hours making huge signs that would be visible from the air.
It will be interesting to see whether Google will repeat the event in other cities. If they do, get prepared early. What sign would you make?"
"Hi Mom!"
She always loves that.
An arrow pointing to my asshole neighbor's house with the caption "Unsecured wireless network here!!"
John Hancock wuz here.
There's only one thing to put on such a sign:
"Mostly Harmless"
www.eFax.com are spammers
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Where I live right now is just a very low-res blur on Google Earth and Maps. We've had a banner on the roof of our garage that reads "Fuck off Google!" in 3' high letters for the past two years just waiting for the day they update their imagery. We're still waiting...
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What else would a
"Nothing to see here, move on"
(preferably in ASCII art)
If you look at the roof of the Target store in College Point, NY, there's a huge logo. Not such a good idea.
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.
Does it really matter when google has spammed first?
For example, look
here. It is off the california coast, near LAX.
Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
This fine rooftop example for instance:
l =en&ll=54.506361,-1.35223&z=19
U TF8&z=17&ll=33.634542,-112.059485&spn=0.004582,0.0 13475&t=k&om=1
http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1211&c=&t=k&h
Or this gem in Arizona:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=85022&ie=
As long as they had a ballpark sized ad, they should be ok.
Ryan-
But a giant goatse.cx recreation would be funny.
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see subject (if you're exceptionally unlucky ! )
"Here be dragons!"
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
That's clever... I was going to go with "Kill Bush", but yours is punnier.
We will be along very soon. I take my coffee black, by the way.
Signed,
The Secret Service
You're just jealous because they're bigger than yours.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Shouldn't You expect more from your DJ?
If we're doing hitchhikers guide the sign should be in big flaming letters saying 'we apologise for the inconvenience'
Wouldn't that be a nice message from dog?
Btw: Hey Wow where is my insult?
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
Uhm...if Google maps gets you to the right intersection, and then you can't take over from there and figure out which of the four corners has the Taco Bell, you shouldn't be going out for food on your own in the first place.
what else?
Maybe a giant goatse?
I can't decide whether you're talking about the parent poster's mom or not, but I like it either way.
Where are you located. And give us the specific address of the busybodies who attend all the Association meetings. Because right now is when we can buy 100 pound bags of clover seed at the lowest price.
You'll be responsible for the followup, though, going to the association meetings and getting a restriction placed on how often people can spray their lawns with 'weed killer' (for the 'good of the children and pets' remember)
Around here, there's only room for one Starbucks per intersection, what with all the CVSes, Walgreenses, and Rite-Aids in the way.