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Error on Google Maps (White Spot) - How can that happen?

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Error on Google Maps (White Spot) - How can that happen?

Post by Devko » Sat, Sep 17, 2011, 10:27 PM UTC

Error on Google Maps (White Spot) - How can that happen?
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Re: Error on Google Maps (White Spot) - How can that happen?

Post by jfricker » Sat, Sep 17, 2011, 10:36 PM UTC

Looks like the aerial camera operator stuck his gum in the wrong place. Har har.

Or perhaps the home owner was sunbathing and asked Google to obfuscate for the good of mankind.

Re: Error on Google Maps (White Spot) - How can that happen?

Post by rorrr » Sat, Sep 17, 2011, 11:42 PM UTC

If looks like there was something very bright there, probably a sun reflection, and older digital sensors have a problem with that, it's called "blooming" and "streaking". Basically the charge in one "pixel" is so high, it leaks to the neighboring pixels.

Example:

http://www.aerith.net/misao/pixy/tutorial/blooming.html

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