Search Results for 'bridge'

8 More US Street View Cities

The Google latlong blog has just announced that they've added street view imagery for 8 more US cities - Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Providence. They've also linked to this cool…

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Wednesday, 12th December 2007

European Barge Lifting

Today we're posting a roundup of the most interesting ways Europe has employed to get canal barges up-and-over stuff. The simplest method is of course a bridge, of which you can see several excellent examples in…

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Friday, 30th November 2007

Runway Roads

When the American Eisenhower interstate system was constructed it was a specific requirement that one in every five of the 46,837 miles of road had to be kept perfectly straight. The idea was that during times…

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Monday, 19th November 2007

A Canal Across Germany

Germany has an extensive canal system, made up in part by the Mittellandkanal (Midland Canal), which helps form an important industrial shipping route from the west of the country, all the way to Poland. In Minden…

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Wednesday, 26th September 2007

Impossible Railroad

At the beginning of the 20th Century, San Diego needed a fast and reliable rail connection with the east to maintain growth and prosperity. Due to the hostile desert mountains it needed to negotiate on its…

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Monday, 25th June 2007

The New Wembley Stadium (Under Construction)

As the image updates that we reported last week have now made it to Google Maps, there's now almost complete coverage of the whole of England, and we've had a ton of great locations submitted. So…

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Monday, 11th June 2007

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