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hi everyone and welcome to this new
series focusing on using different
methods for geolocation I'm Ben and I'm
really excited to share this stuff with
you so settle in get your Maps ready and
let's get started on episode one of
Let's geolocate
I'm so excited to kick this series off
with some of the coolest things you can
find on Google Earth massive art pieces
seen from space
many of them have since been removed or
have eroded but they're still visible on
Google Earth and Google Maps as you're
about to see in the spirit of this
channel being tutorial based I've listed
the links to the images we will be
finding the locations of in the
description below the coordinates are
next to them feel free to pause before
each one in this video and have a go at
finding those locations all you'll need
to do that is Google Maps the desktop
version of Google Earth and a Keen Eye
otherwise sit back relax as we explore
the world of art from above
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first up is this very large piece on top
of the building that we can see here
it's a person with a blue cap and
perhaps a swimming outfit
so what we can see is that it says St
plus art
start maybe uh Goa which is the name of
a place it says that this piece is in
panjim so I'm going to take a look at
this place and see maybe if we can have
a look around this area it's quite a big
area so maybe we'll have to have a look
for a few more details
now it's directly overlooking the sea it
looks like we have quite a large Highway
a large big bush so I'm going to have a
look at a place that perhaps
hmm might have these kind of red and
white tiles next to them a large Highway
and right next to the ocean we've got
some unique features and this is a
pretty unique building too with these
two kind of holes in here and this this
kind of unique shape so I'm going to
have a look around next to the coastline
I can see a main road that might be
coming along here
looks like quite a large Main Road
there's a highway up here as well
and if we zoom in a little bit more
we've got this building here now I can't
see the art on that building
so we might have to go back a little bit
in time to see if it's there what we can
do is use our Google Earth for that so
I'm going to go straight to those
coordinates that we just found on Google
Maps
okay we've got that location and I'm
going to click on my historical
historical function
and let's scroll back in time I can see
some paint on top of that building
February I think we have to go back a
little bit longer hey
so here we are in April
2021 maybe the artwork might be a little
bit fresher
into in late 2019 so the end of December
2019 here we have the image
lovely so this is the first piece of art
that we can see
in this area and it's quite nice to sort
of be able to find this stuff on Google
Earth because as you can see if we have
a look at the top of that building
there's only slight remnants we can even
see Trace lines of that but going back
to that sort of end period of 2019 we
can see that that piece of art
is very much Clear and Present on that
one
the second piece that we have is a
really cool piece from kit Bennett who
is a artist primarily doing art in
Australia
this one's actually quite easy because
someone has posted a Google Maps Link in
there so let's check out that Google
Maps link and see if we can identify
that place on there I'm going to click
my satellite tile on Google Maps here
and zoom right in
and hey here we can see that image
we might be able to see that a little
bit clearer on Google Earth perhaps
let's have a look if we can see that
zooming in some of the satellite imagery
as you can see just isn't as clear as
we'd like it to be on Google Earth we
can go back in 2019 2018 we can see it
there
um early 2018 not there late 2018 very
nice shot and I think that's the same
shot that we see on Google Maps there
great so we've got that one that was
actually quite an easy example and you
can see how some of these range in
difficulty
great let's go to the third one magic
carpet
this one's quite an interesting one
because first and foremost we have a
large view in the background in going
through the comments section of this I
always like to as we had for the last
one we had a Google Maps link so let's
have a look at the comments of here and
maybe see if we can pick up anything we
have someone saying thought out Winkles
look at the fun new Magic Carpet Ride
carpet art right at my place cool so
where's thought out Winkles placed this
is a handmade jewelry store in Charlotte
NC great so let's go to Charlotte now
the reason why I find this quite useful
the city is because we have this City
View up the top here and we also have
this large train line so thinking back
to the first one which was quite easy we
had the road sitting in the background
train line right there
let's have a look at this place on
Google Earth and we now have the city
view of Charlotte
I'm going to click on a really useful
function here which is roads I'm also
going to have a look at other features
that we have so transportation and then
I might even click off-roads and have a
look at that Transportation the reason
why I clicked on the transportation is
because what it does is it shows me
clear train lines running into the city
now remember back to the picture that we
had the picture was showing this
building
and this building now these buildings
should be quite identifiable
so I'm going to go to the city
so I've got my 3D buildings on I've got
these buildings viewed and I want to be
just looking at the left
of this building here
so I'm going back from South End I need
to look for this kind of path along the
side here with these buildings in this
car park as well
so I'm going to work my way back from
that location
we have these buildings match up with
this one here we have these buildings on
the right and what do we have down here
perfect
our nice little
piece of art great that one's
identifiable and maybe we can even go
back in time on this as well 2021 we
have a really good image of it 2018
still there let's go to this 2016 image
yay
and that's the angle that this photo
would have been taken at
great so we found that one let's move on
to number four which is Lilith and Olaf
I really like this one it's done by the
same artists as number one
um it's really huge piece this is
actually a video on YouTube it's a drone
video and you'll start to get a sense of
the scale of size so you can see the
people here who filmed this video you
can see this one who I believe was Olaf
seems quite big
but definitely not the biggest and this
is actually really why I like this kind
of art because it just shows like how
much effort has been put into it and how
difficult it would be to really paint
something like this without getting lost
without having that kind of overhead
view
so this is obviously quite a large mural
so what we're seeing is kind of like a
like a factory style building already I
can see that in this building we've got
like these green rows and then there
seems to be like lines across the little
towns and these kind of things these
tracks in the middle so it's next to
railway tracks which if you think about
the last one is probably something quite
definitive that we can look for
huge industrial area and in in that kind
of neighborhood as well so I'll click on
here for more details it says the mural
was completed in clip rogueland so let's
have a look for that location I'll go
back to Google Earth because this was
made in 2015. so perhaps we
might not be able to see it in fresh
satellite imagery I'm not too sure or or
whatever recent satellite imagery we
have now I'm looking for kind of like
that train line next to a large project
or a large kind of Warehouse industrial
area
I can see in the middle of clap they've
got an industrial area here just from
the outset of things I'm not really
seeing a train line next to any of these
and I'm also not seeing any buildings
that seem to match that scalex instead
except for this which this one seems to
have like a few more finished ends is in
a commercial area this seems to be more
like a a car park and not that kind of
industrial area
got one down here that could be
something but again that train line is
kind of missing for me
so I think I might have a look at
surrounding areas I just noticed while
zooming out that we've got this kind of
line because don't forget I've still got
my Transportation line turned on to show
up which is really helpful so we've got
a train line here there's an industrial
area along here so I might just start
following this Around clip and see if
there's any industrial areas that kind
of match what I'm looking for Around
clip next to a train line so I might
keep
following this train line up see if
there's anything around here nothing
there nothing there
anything around here hey I think I might
have something here
cool so this looks like our Lilith and
Olaf
that we have here there's the little
happy man with a person with a little
Crown which is really cool it looks like
it's kind of in that similar stage of
construction as well we can even see
those little panels facing out just very
similar time frame we can have a look
back a little bit more so you see like
in May 2022 that's super faded it likes
2021 2019 still quite faded 2018. I
might go back a few more years like
maybe 2015 2014 no cool so 2017 seems to
be the clearest that's also the the
standard image I think that's probably
the same image that you might have on
Google Maps so there we are there's our
Lilith and Olaf that we found again
using train lines which seems to be the
winner here cool so let's go to number
five sleeping Rosa uh sleeping Rosa is
again one from uh Ella and Peter this
one is in Rotterdam uh in the
Netherlands just looking at this image
already I can see it's kind of next to a
port it seems to be one of the
industrial buildings next to it it's got
a couple of like buildings there next to
a green patch possibly a train line or
possibly a cut line for storage or
something like that it actually says
masilo Rotterdam so I'm going to take
this address
and pop that into Google Earth
let's go over to Rotterdam
great takes me to masillo and takes me
actually to the exact uh image that I
believe we're looking for this is on the
3D building uh so we can see it's next
to the water I'm going to go off 3D
by going back in time and let's go back
to when that might have been made so it
was this photo was taken in 2019 pretty
clear there June 2019
so I'm going to take this one back to
2019 yeah
um here is June not on the rooftop then
but in August lovely
really clean image what is referred to
as sleeping Rosa this one is a favorite
one of mine
it's these large spiders that are on top
of this building I think this is a
pretty cool one if you scroll down you
can maybe see some of the some of the
images that this guy does he does like
3D murals which are pretty awesome let's
have a look for this one it's it's
actually kind of a close-up picture of
him but I wanted to find what rooftop uh
he actually did this on so we can skip
through his photos and maybe find the
other photos so here it is this is quite
awesome seeing that and I definitely
want to see that on Google Maps so I'm
sure you guys do too so we can see like
a really nice shot here like here's him
with the picture with it and there's
Tara in the background we have this
Tower here as well for those of you that
don't know what the tower is well I
can't really tell you that but what we
can do is we can ask Google through
Google image reverse search
so that Tower is apparently the Space
Needle in Seattle so I'm going to go to
the Space Needle in Seattle on Google
Maps
Space Needle cool it's even giving me a
street uh Broad Street now I think we're
gonna have to do a bit of tricky
geolocation maybe I don't know how
difficult this is going to be to see
where this might be it seems to be quite
close to the Tower and there's the Space
Needle there so maybe we can like look
around I'm going to open this up in
Google Earth
the reason why I like to open this stuff
up in Google Earth is just because of
the kind of pivoting that we're able to
do so I'm going to reopen the kind of 3D
view that we usually have on Google Maps
but this allows me just to get a little
bit more into the street level detail of
what we can see here and really pivot
around to recreate that photo
so if we go back to this image we're
kind of looking at a specific angle of
this so we've got these kind of like
lattice bits on the side of this if we
have a close look at it they're really
only on two sides and hey I've just
pivoted this and it was actually a bit
closer than I originally expected but
hey here's our spiders we can even see
his name and yeah there's the spiders
how awesome is that
so let's go for the next one
um so this is actually an image I came
across it was by the British Airways
i360 so this is obviously from them
um or something of that uh quite near
them so I'm just gonna go and have a
look at that it's in Brighton we've also
got this kind of art and believe they're
graphic artists from Brighton as well so
it matches up it's quite helpful
immediately just on the sort of outside
of things I can see this one right here
I'm going to open that same one up in
Google Earth
just for the spinning effect but also so
we can go back in time and see perhaps
when that was made
so I have my 3D buildings turned on and
we can see that at the top of this
building here let that render a bit
better
nice and we can see that there that's so
cool and you can see the art and believe
on the side of that
really quite a cool illustration made
probably for planes flying over not sure
if they intended for this to be viewed
by satellite imagery Brighton's actually
a beautiful city to look at on Google
Earth or Google Maps for example just
next door at what I believe is the
Hilton because it's written on the top
there we have like this the one with the
glasses and we heart Brighton and
there's a lot of Little Treasures that
you can find around Brighton even this
kind of like painting in front of it in
front of this down here as well really
beautiful place to look at and that's
the British Airways disc that sort of
goes up and down there we also have this
one over here with the windmill so
that's just quite a cool little one to
find and to have a look around that area
to see if there's any Easter eggs that
maybe artists have hidden on rooftops
for us to find so I hope you enjoyed uh
this session going through some of these
awesome art displays that uh really
probably made for uh anyone with a drone
or anyone flying over but indirectly
also made for us the watches on Google
Earth if you have any art pieces
yourself that you've found or that you
think are cool please pop them in the
comments section below I'm sure a lot of
people would love to see them and check
them out and if you have any other
requests for me to find specific pieces
of Art and see if we can find them on
satellite imagery as well ping them
through in the comments section and I'll
check them out and get back to you
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