How about this island: pulau menjangan island, a small island, located 5 miles to the north-west of Bali, Indonesia
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=-8.09500,114.517 You can clearly see it on satellite view (and on bing maps) but it is completely missing from Google maps! On Thursday, December 1, 2005 3:54:22 AM UTC+1, Kayaker wrote: > > San Pedro Rock, a 300 meter long island off San Pedro Point, > visible from Pacifica State Beach, 12 kilometers north of The > Mavericks, 30 kilometers south of San Francisco in California USA > (37.6195N / 122.497W.) is missing from the Google maps! What is most > disturbing is you can see current flows in the water as if someone > carefully airbrushed out the rock and airbrushed in some reasonable > looking water. How many other 300 meter long featues are missing from > the Google Maps?? > In the Google Local street map the island does appear as a white > blob offshore, but it dissapears in Satellite or Hybrid mode. In the > API maps it does not even appear as a blob in street map mode! > I have heard Urban Myths about map companies putting in made-up > towns that are not there to catch copyright violators who copy their > maps. Perhaps Google has removed a few features like this for the same > reason. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-api/-/OHBcD-FWv_kJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
