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Mar 24
2009

Filed Away: Inspiration, Miscellaneous

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19 Cool Textures from Google Maps

Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
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Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
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Jemdet Nasr, Iraq

Jemdet Nasr, Iraq
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Yuzhny Island, Russia

Yuzhny Island, Russia
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South Island Mountains, New Zealand

South Island Mountains, New Zealand
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Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
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Balochistan, Pakistan

Balochistan, Pakistan
Map it!

Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana

Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana
Map it!

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14 comments so far on this post:

  1. Aaron Irizarry | March 24th, 2009 at 9:24 am

    That southwest Kansas, and southeast Colorado is pretty awesome. I like all the circles.
    Great find!

    Aaron I

  2. Tim Schmidt | March 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    Awesome finds dude! \m/

  3. Cristhian Bedon | March 24th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    This is a great find!

  4. Leonie Wharton | March 25th, 2009 at 8:40 am

    I love the one with all the circles presumably caused by the way farmers cut crops

  5. Dan Tagg | March 25th, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Here’s a bit of Alberta that I fly over from London to LA,
    http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=53.214257,-111.928711&spn=0.633208,1.746826&z=9

  6. David Link | March 25th, 2009 at 10:43 am

    @Dan

    Sweet! Thanks, man. :)

  7. Dan Tagg | March 25th, 2009 at 10:53 am

    and a turquoise lake x0CA1D9
    http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=53.456831,-112.524462&spn=0.019676,0.054588&z=14

  8. Logo Design Guru | March 25th, 2009 at 11:35 am

    That’s pretty funny! I never thought that the distortion of google while it renders would create such cool textures. Great idea. I really do think that beauty and creativity is everywhere, it’s just a matter of finding it. Sometimes we don’t see it when it’s right in front of our noses.

  9. uber | March 27th, 2009 at 8:10 am

    How do you capture the images in such high quality jpg files? I have some areas i’ve found in google maps that I would love to turn into desktop wallpaper!

    thanks for the great pics!

  10. David Link | March 27th, 2009 at 9:18 am

    @uber

    I have a large screen resolution. So I just expand the satellite pane as large as possible. But if you’d like to create even larger images, you can simply pan around in Google Maps and capture multiple screenshots. Then just pull them into Photoshop (or similar) and stitch ‘em together! Thanks for the comment. :)

  11. Chase "The" Swindler | March 27th, 2009 at 10:27 am

    It’s amazing that our planet can look pixelated simply because of farmers. Maybe we should hire a bunch of farmers as web designers to see how they are at it. Could produce interesting results.

  12. Marc | April 1st, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    I’ve often marveled at this when flying cross-country, and watching the landscape slide by. Obviously the midwest either uses too much JPeG compression on their crops, or doesn’t grow them at a high enough resolution. We Northeasterners use much higher ppi (people per inch) settings in our urban sprawls.

  13. Craig Stanton | April 18th, 2009 at 3:12 am

    Western China (http://tinyurl.com/d43pbl)
    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.759472n+85.508461e&ie=UTF8&ll=39.876019,85.506592&spn=0.931653,2.463684&t=h&z=9

  14. Erin | April 20th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    The circles are from irrigation….there is a center point and a long arm-raduis on wheels. The arm has the spray nozzles and it progresses around to water all of the crops, hence circular crops.

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