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Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body

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Re: Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body

#21

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They must have changed it, because I'm not seeing it.

I think you need to be using the 45 deg imagery.

And if you rotate the view point you get 4 different snapshots in time.

More police activity. Police activity but no body. And then back to as it was. No activity, no body.

Re: Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body

#22

It's a little south of the marker on the map in the article, but it is still on Google Maps.

It's been blurred out now ( http://imgur.com/1GcROpY ). Also, the new maps interface is very unintuitive. I remember there used to be an option to create a shortlink to an exact coordinate: I can't figure out where that is now. There is a 'Save' button, but I think that just saves it to my local machine. How do I share a location?

that blurry square isn't it, if you travel south for about half a block, you'll see a police car, follow that road forward a bit, and you can see a body, and north of that in the field there is a group of law enforcement.

slightly gruesome screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bnyNZq5.png

Re: Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body

#26

It's a little south of the marker on the map in the article, but it is still on Google Maps.

It's been blurred out now ( http://imgur.com/1GcROpY ). Also, the new maps interface is very unintuitive. I remember there used to be an option to create a shortlink to an exact coordinate: I can't figure out where that is now. There is a 'Save' button, but I think that just saves it to my local machine. How do I share a location?

Right click (option click on Mac?) and select 'What's here'. That gives you exact coordinates under the green arrow, with nearest street address under the pink map pin. In this case it's 37.951592,-122.36045. That may be a 14 year-old boy lying there dead and if true it is a terribly sad thing and I hope it is at least blurred out soon.

Re: Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body

#27

It's a little south of the marker on the map in the article, but it is still on Google Maps.

It's been blurred out now ( http://imgur.com/1GcROpY ). Also, the new maps interface is very unintuitive. I remember there used to be an option to create a shortlink to an exact coordinate: I can't figure out where that is now. There is a 'Save' button, but I think that just saves it to my local machine. How do I share a location?

The url in the address bar now reflects the current state of the map, and that can be shared. This leaves no shortening option, but it can still be done manually at " rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/>.

Re: Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body

#28

It's a little south of the marker on the map in the article, but it is still on Google Maps.

It's been blurred out now ( http://imgur.com/1GcROpY ). Also, the new maps interface is very unintuitive. I remember there used to be an option to create a shortlink to an exact coordinate: I can't figure out where that is now. There is a 'Save' button, but I think that just saves it to my local machine. How do I share a location?

You can just copy and paste the URL to share your current view (should include any markers on the map as well).

Re: Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body

#29

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They must have changed it, because I'm not seeing it.

I would post a link, but I have no idea how to do it with the new Google Maps Beta. Much like everything else they've done recently, they've hidden all the functionality with absolutely no benefit, and exposed utterly useless functionality.

They've "fixed" it so that you just copy and paste the URL to share whatever you're seeing in the map. Yes, in some ways, it's not obvious, but mainly because the "obvious" way of sharing the URL didn't work before.

Re: Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body

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That's it? What a load of fuss over nothing.

Imagine that body was somebody that you loved.

I can empathize, but I would probably ask Google to remove it before going to the news.
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