Real-World Google Map Markers

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

This is silly yet interesting. First some facts about Google Maps: “Each marker and even the speech bubbles with further information cast a shadow on the maps and satellite images. While zooming in on the map, the pixel size of the markers on the screen always stay at the same size. But if their size is seen in relation to their environment they shrink when the user zooms in.”

Basically that knowledge got guy named Aram Bartholl all worked up, and he decided to re-create the map markers in real life. To scale. “The size of the rebuilt red Marker in reality corresponds to the size of a marker in the web interface in max zoom factor of the map.”

See Adam’s Map Project Here
Source: datenform.de
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