Google Earth

[den]

While mucking around with Google Earth, I thought I'd have a look for Griffin Park, the home of Brentford FC and my favourite UK football team. I enterd "brentford, england" into the search and hit enter, as you do. Google Earth zoomed in to Brentford, West London, and... what the hell is that? Just west of Brentford, beside the M4, and a whacking great black rectangle. It's obviously hiding something, but the huge black blank is an enourmous "NOTHING TO SEE HERE MOVE ALONG!" sign.

Now I want to know what's there.

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Oh! How weird... I looked at it on googlemaps here (http://local.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=windmill+lane&ie=UTF8&ll=51.498351,-0.344954&spn=0.012129,0.029182&om=1) and it seems to be the rest of the lake and an empty field. *Seems to be*, at least. Maybe you found the UK equivalent to Area 51? :)

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Maybe it represents something along the lines of Watford Gap:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Gap. Or mauybe it's the British Rectangle to go along with the Bermuda Triangle:D. Keep your eyes on the skies!

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

Britain is full of places that everyone knows are there, but don't appear on any maps. US airforce bases (and some of our own brand) for example. there's one near Bolton Abbey (North East of Colne, but in West Yorkshire) that looks like someone has been growing mutant mushrooms, it has so many and they're so large that the thing must be visible from Mars, but it's "not there" :)

[atara.livejournal.com]

There is lots of interesting stuff to see on Google Earth. Have you seen this? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_earth_competition_results/)

I especially like the areas in Africa - just some shanty town in the middle of nowhere - which is imaged at insane resolution (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_earth_competition_results/page11.html). You can see the people, make out their features, and even find laundry drying on the ground.

[jrrhack.livejournal.com]

It seems like a black film is sticked in the lens when the photo was taken.

[torkell]

Hmm. Looking at other sites like Windows Live Local shows the full park, so it's probably a gap in whatever data Google's using. Maybe the satellite coverage missed a spot? The rectangle is slightly rotated as well.