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May 11, 2007
Giant Building Found in Google Earth
[UPDATE May 17: Google did a layers update yesterday and removed the bad building.]
Found an E-mail from Jorge González this morning who told me he had found a 72 km tall building in Google Earth near Bratislava, Slovakia. Apparently someone has secretly built a space elevator in Slovakia - either that, or something wrong happened when a 3D model was put into Google's database. You only see this data error if you turn on the "3D Buildings" layer. Then, follow this link 
, or do a search for "Bratislava".
I'm sure Google will have this corrected soon. Possibly when the next layer update occurs. There are already several 3D buildings built in Bratislava, it was my first time to visit the area. Jorge also has a spanish blog where he writes about things he finds in Google Earth - check out Turismo Google.
Posted by FrankTaylor at May 11, 2007 07:43 AM
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Posted by: Juraj at May 12, 2007 02:50 PM
Haha, awesome. I couldn't get the thermospheric description in view before GE culled it out (it's located 102762.7545881012 meters above the ground to be exact), but by sniffing my own network traffic I found it's "nieco BIG" by Kiwi, described as "BIG BIG BIG":
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=1720400f53258fd67d1edfc9f68d8317
I think I'll make a copy to share with others when it's gone; at least I presume it won't stay there indefinitely.
Posted by: Jonathan at May 13, 2007 07:35 AM
btw "nieco BIG" in slovak means "something BIG", which I guess is a good description for this monstrosity :)
Posted by: gulo at May 14, 2007 01:23 AM
This is wikid i can spend hours on this and not get bored keep up the wikid things...
Posted by: Bruce at May 31, 2007 04:20 AM
Another giant building (error in 3dwarehouse) found at Burhaniye, Turkey 39*29'N 26*56'E, Kent, Denmark
Posted by: Kent at June 19, 2007 11:57 AM
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There are two other 3D buildings in Bratislava on GE, on the place of new National Theater, which in reality no exist.