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Google Maps is a universal resource for finding restaurants and friends\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 houses, for ensuring we can drive from Illinois to Colorado without somehow ending up in Connecticut. How many countries does Zimbabwe border? Where in the world is Hvolsv\u00c3\u00b6llur? And, naturally, street view is the patron saint of identifying shady areas in unfamiliar cities. But outside of pure practical functionality, Google Maps also carries with it a great potential for other uses.<\/p>\n
The thing about the street and satellite views is that they are, plain and simple, massive, nearly inexhaustible visual resources. Ninety-eight percent of the time, you will see nothing out of the ordinary. But every here and there are gems. While puttering around in street view, one comes upon single frames with colorful digital aberrations, misaligned shots. Outside a police station, the view is suddenly blocked by seagulls and one bird, right up in front of the lens, is carrying a giant log of food. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve begun curating screenshots of interesting things. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s found art, of a sort.<\/p>\n
Spotting low-flying airplanes from an aerial perspective provides another pastime\u00e2\u20ac\u201d one was a plane so close I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d mistaken it for an airport icon; another could only be found by the shadow it cast on the ground. Planes and the like aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t anything out of the oddslot tips<\/a> ordinary, but unlike much of the everyday activity one expects to see captured, some things are strangely absent.<\/p>\n