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World’s Largest Fingerprint and Face Art

December 11, 2007

When looking at the imagery in Google Earth, you often find amazing sights you would never expect. GoogleSightseeing.com is a blog which often highlights some of the more bizarre and unusual finds. Recently they found a couple I found particularly entertaining.
World's largest fingerprint in Google EarthFirst up we have the world’s largest fingerprint – it’s a 38 meter tall fingerprint which you can see in Google Earth . When I first saw it, I thought for sure this was a fingerprint someone put on the negative of an aerial photo. But, when I looked closely it seemed it was really there. Then I noticed the link in the bottom of Googlesightseeing’s story which reveals this is actually a fingerprint someone built in a park!
Giant face in Google EarthNext up, someone named Jennifer found what looks like an amazingly large artistic-like rendering of a face in a field in Ohio. The general consensus is that it just coincidentally looks like a face, but it’s just an odd coincidence of tree, towers, and tractor tracks which when viewed from above our eyes convert into a drawing. But, wow! Check out the face in GE . [Update: Check the April 2004 image in historical imagery to see the face.]
Amazing sights!

About Frank Taylor

Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank completed a 5.5 year circumnavigation of the earth by sailboat in June 2015 which you can read about at Tahina Expedition, and is a licensed pilot, backpacker, diver, and photographer.

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  1. Erik says

    December 12, 2007 at 10:04 am

    Are these objects found by chance or made by artists?

    • B-wizzle says

      September 13, 2013 at 9:38 pm

      The face is natural; someone got bored one day and put a giant version of their fingerprint in a park in England



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