Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps

Toramir writes "Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps, would cross above their city and used people to make a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea of an entire town working hard to get its 15 minutes of fame. The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event."

Comments

In sovied russia, tech.slashdot is the new idle

[Anonymous Coward]

I had hoped idle would stay confined to idle. This is not technology.

This ... is ... IDLE!!! </300>

Re:Fake images

[easyTree]

I'd much rather just see a stream of images from what is actually happening and make up my own mind. There less editorial control the better.

Perhaps you've forgotten that the purpose of news isn't to inform, it's to coerce opinion.