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Nevermind it being visible on google maps since 2007...<p>Imagine being the homeowner who had no idea a corpse was decomposing steps from his own backyard for the past 22 years... or that a car was in the pond behind your house.<p>People really need to get out more often.
> "Amazingly, a vehicle had plainly [been] visible on a Google Earth satellite photo of the area since 2007, but apparently no-one had noticed it until 2019," according to the report.<p>This sounds like a job for machine learning. Are there any systematic efforts underway to use Google Earth to search for out-of-place objects?
Last month, I noticed there was a sign not well fixed over the road. So when I arrived home, I reported it to the appropriate authorities through a web interface. And doing so, to pinpoint it for the repair guys, I noticed that the precise sign was available to be seen via street-view. I was even able using the time-travel feature to notice that it has been dangling for more than two years.<p>Probably running anomaly detection on all road-signs all over the world, you could prevent a certain number of accident each year.<p>The deeper question behind this, is what should have been done by those who have the info and didn't act ? Once you start running anomaly detection on data how do you navigate the ethical minefield that ensue.
>Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office told the BBC that Mr Moldt is presumed to have lost control of his vehicle and driven into the pond.<p>>The force said that, during the initial investigation into his disappearance, there was "no evidence of that occurring" until recently, when a shift in the water made the car visible.<p>I'm surprised that no one saw signs of a car going off the road back when he went missing. In the image the car is quite far from the road suggesting a lot of momentum as it went into the pond.
This same story has happened before, in Michigan, when a worker putting christmas lights on a nearby tree noticed a car in a pond from their raised vantage point.<p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/car-with-body-of-man-missing-9-years-visible-on-google-maps_n_5645f5e4e4b045bf3deead62" rel="nofollow">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/car-with-body-of-man-missing-...</a>
Note that it wasn't _found_ with Google maps, it's just that you can see it.<p>From the article ..<p>> *it was a neighbour who reported the sunken car and was not aware of reports that Google Maps had been used."
I wonder how hard it would be to scan ingested maps for interesting submerged structures, and also roughly how many cars would turn up if it's feasible. I'd guess... O(100)?
I've found and reported obviously problematic submerged items on Google Maps on a few occasions. No one is interested. Now I just share them with my friends.
also visible in Apple Maps. Definitely in 3D, but only just in 2D. I.e. in 2D at maximum zoom there is a light spot where the car was. 3D lets you zoom in closer, and you can see the rear end of a car even more clearly than the picture in the article.<p>3D: <a href="https://www.ianitor.com/img/3dcar.png" rel="nofollow">https://www.ianitor.com/img/3dcar.png</a>
2D: <a href="https://www.ianitor.com/img/2dcar.png" rel="nofollow">https://www.ianitor.com/img/2dcar.png</a>
I wonder how many other cases like this can be solved with an image recognition based AI scraping the rest of Google Maps out there.. anyone on here interested in collab on that?
Let alone Cthulhu is on a pond <a href="https://i.imgur.com/CbgqpkF.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/CbgqpkF.png</a>
So if a <i>whole car</i> can stay hidden for 22 years, that tells me that in those 22 years, nobody swam or fished nearby. The aerial photo makes it obvious the whole subdivision is intercut with ponds that are obviously man-made, and they look stagnant, nasty & sad. Probably also full of pesticide & herbicide runoff(t). Everybody in the subdivision probably tells their kids to stay out of the ponds. "That's what the pool is for honey! Ponds are for poor people!" I wish Kate Wagner (mcmansionhell.com) was here.