Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps

[@Google]

Great explainer!

[@clivedrinkscola]

Literally the official Google account with only 7 likes

[@fietae]

I like that google is not boosting their own comments

[@JackAttack65]

It's been more than 2 days now and Google's comment only has 19 likes.

[@destroassasin9505]

I was the 23rd like

[@JediEdi]

44 likes in 4 days, bro fell off

[@ElPolloDiabl0]

Did you notice how Google Earth in a desktop browser seamlessly transitions from a globe into a tiled Mercator projection as you zoom in? That's the real magic.

[@qtluna7917]

The real magic is that the closest zoom level is 3d and it still feels seamless

[@Meg_A_Byte]

I did and it was magical. It's always magical!

[@ado3247]

I bet some developer spent day and night figuring out how to transform the globe in a way that looks right and then after he made it he admired it for days just zooming in and out

[@luipaardprint]

@TrustandbelieveintheLORDI was really hoping for some kind of joke about God needing a way to admire his work and creating Google Earth while reading that.

[@Persun_McPersonson]

@@luipaardprint To counteract this verbatim passage devoid of humor, I give a verbatim passage which is much the same (any humor is a coincidence) but is more entertaining to read nontheless: "And He said, 'Wow. Even I might have overreached my Noodly Appendage on this one,' and not even sure what day it was anymore, He decided to take an extended break from the whole creation gig, and He gave a quick blessing and declared, "From here on out, every Friday is a holiday."  - The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: Section 2, Chapter 5: Book of The Holy Noodle: Part 5 (Che Fifth Day), Paragraph 2, Sentence 3.

[@pallasproserpina4118]

the editing on this one goes hard, the section on different mosaic methods was incredible

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

[@madfinntech]

Well, someone was paid to edit it, so one would expect them to do a good job. I always give less respect to KZbinrs who don't edit their own videos. The plus side, of course, is that it employs editors, I guess.

[@patrikwihlke4170]

@@madfinntech why should they edit their own content? One person can only do so much and content creation is a company like any other. You don't expect the CEO of GM to assemble cars right? Arguably the editors are also youtubers and thus edit their own content...🤔

[@Ace.20]

The music is a bit too loud

[@CamcorderHomeVideos]

​@@skyfi-app 🤭

[@Nalehw]

The orthorectifying at 4:25 looked so good. And the image stitching demo afterward, too! Editors knocking it out of the park today.

[@skyfi-app]

Glad you loved it! With SkyFi, you can see orthorectified images of your backyard in stunning detail. Stitch that!

[@BlackthornGamesFN]

No one’s gonna question that @skyfi-app JUST COMMENTED ON THE VIDEOS?!?!

[@Razorcarl]

​@@BlackthornGamesFNis it real?

[@BlackthornGamesFN]

@Razorcarl Pretty sure

[@aminfozdar]

@@BlackthornGamesFNit’s their way of advertising, I’ve seen them comment on every other comment on this video lol

[@General12th]

Hi Sam! Big thanks to Amy for using a really big Pogo stick to bounce herself into orbit so should could take pictures of all the oceans. She deserves a raise!

[@nygothuey6607]

Or at least a lunch break. Come on Sam, have a heart...

[@Mike_Dubayou]

Who tf is amy

[@General12th]

@@Mike_Dubayou ur mom

[@defeatSpace]

Evidently, Amy can already raise herself (sorry I'll leave)

[@Swagkonge]

Jokes on you! I drive in the ocean anyway! Can’t fool me, googloids!

[@Palmtop_User]

What car you got i keep trying to drive in the ocean but my car dies before my window is even in the water

[@Swagkonge]

@@Palmtop_User uhhh my car is blue, try one of those?

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

[@My_Name_Here420]

@@EEEEEEEE that is the most poetic story i have ever heard 🤧 more ples

[@JPurvis10]

Waze will make you take a left turn through someone’s living room.

[@aquss33]

2:03 dude really zoomed on on some random granny's house in Đurđevac, Croatia to illustrate zoom levels, now that's what I love about this channel

[@skyfi-app]

Haha, SkyFi can take you from granny’s house to the Great Wall in seconds. Zoom level: expert!

[@manmanman2000]

That's the house of my granny, Iblanka Ivanic. God bless her ♥

[@aquss33]

@@manmanman2000 I know whose house it is. I just didn't want to write the names or the adress so as not to sound creepy cuz I actually do not know these people even though they live close to me, I only know their names through publically available house ownership records... (katastar najobičniji)

[@klarabarunovic9841]

How do you know that?

[@Vociferous]

The Earth's oceans look so bumpy on Google Earth because they are not actually showing the real surface of the water, but rather the shape of the sea floor below.

[@tfx9223]

That’s what he said

[@HappyQuailsLC]

And that I already knew.

[@guameldestruir6239]

Actually, for the most part they aren't if they were underwater rivers/sediment deposition zones would be way clearer, but as it is now only a few have been mapped and NONE fully, just as with the rest of the sea floor. Easiest one to see on google earth is the one coming from the Columbia River in Washington State, you can see it snake for hundreds of miles on the pacific floor.

[@awsomebot1]

This was already addressed in the video?

[@AskYourWifeAboutMe]

Glad you clarified that for all 3 people that didn't know.

[@sorenmeyer7347]

I'm a GI Scientist / Engineer working with satellite and airborne orthophotos and i have to say you nailed the explanation of tiling (like a WMTS) and ortho photography. Cool to see my field of work shown and explained really well here on this channel.

[@theairaccumulator7144]

It wouldn't be surprising if Skyfi helped them not make a mess of all the facts.

[@ReynaMirez]

Who asked?

[@ChrisFord-wh1gl]

And this fool is an intellectual and doesn’t get that talking about the surface of the water is not the point google shows the seabed

[@goinkosu]

Sam zooming in on Wendover, Utah is a payoff I've been wanting for 2 years but never expected. Thank you, Sam.

[@goinkosu]

@@skyfi-app That's my worst fear. How dare you

[@benm1414]

​@@skyfi-appThat's my worst fear. How dare you

[@DeerJerky]

@@skyfi-app That's my worst fear. How dare you

[@googiegress]

@@skyfi-app That's my worst fear. How dare you

[@MichaelfromtheGraves]

​@@skyfi-app That's my worst dear. How dare you

[@shredead]

I 100% take Google Earth way too much for granted. Imagine trying to describe what it can do to any human who ever existed prior to the 20th century, a person who probably never left their native land in their entire life or maybe crossed oceans not knowing what was on the other side or if there even was another side to get to

[@Callaghan552]

People knew what was on the other side of the oceans for 600-700 years already by the time the 20th century rolled around. If I was talking to Columbus I'd call it a collection of maps, navigational tools and contact information for trades and services in any particular area that regularly renews itself so it is always accurate. If I was talking to anyone after 1700 I'd call it a tool that replaces/supersedes the use of an atlas, trade directory, travel timetable and personal guide.

[@scottie_2024]

Never thought I'd see a KSP reference in HAI, but now I demand MORE

[@philiphockenbury6563]

The music for the game is permanently etched in my mind.

[@The2wanderers]

And The Expanse. It's like someone at HAI is trying to troll me with reminders of all my favourite, cancelled, things.

[@trixxite]

​@@The2wanderers wait The Expanse wasn't cancelled right? They ended at season 6 because the books continue the story after a (long) time skip and of course they couldn't age the actors a lot on tv. I'm not sure but I think they have graphic novels in the works which continue the show's story past season 6.

[@The2wanderers]

@@trixxite Season six was short, and while there is a natural gap in the story, it's not like they couldn't have handled it if Amazon had wanted to continue.

[@lrdxgm]

@@trixxite Season 6 was half building new plots for the future, and just half real story. I mean, wtf was that whole story about the life on the alien planet was?

[@joshuasims5421]

Ok, now I need a season of Jet Lag that is just a scavenger hunt of racing to cities with names like Apples, Switzerland and Orange, France. The thematic challenges write themselves.

[@staryoshi06]

Then they gotta get from Orange, France to Orange, Australia.

[@pixelmaster98]

@@staryoshi06 trains only? /s

[@Bismarck-S]

Jet Lag Are actually just tryhards tryna make good content, but it’s all so fake and too forced

[@cheesehead52221]

​@@Bismarck-S No proof

[@yannicklokur]

IVE GONE TO ORANGE!!!

[@davidci]

"Depending on who you believe, the Earth is round..." 😂

[@E1craZ4life]

I remember watching a video about a series of questions being answered by a Flat Earther, but now it’s gone.

[@dajjukunrama5695]

I think its shaped like your mother

[@objective_psychology]

@@E1craZ4life Must've been taken down by Big Globe /s

[@shepardice3775]

Some flat earthers are so interesting to me because they show great curiosity and a decent grasp on the scientific method and designing experiments only to waste it on something so stupid

[@skyfi-app]

And if you need proof, SkyFi’s got your back with crystal-clear satellite imagery of our round (or is it?) planet!

[@Aido1098]

Wendover, Utah is now a canon location in the WPCU (Wendover Productions Cinematic Universe) 0:45

Only now? It's been that for years...

[@skyfi-app]

Epic! SkyFi should be next-imagine all the cinematic potential with real-time satellite footage!

[@brynclarke1746]

Personally I'm still waiting for them to credit the o.g. Wendover, Buckinghamshire

[@Avendesora]

@@skyfi-app​​⁠ I was legitimately interested in the app until I saw you spamming advertisements in the comments. The second-hand embarrassment would be real if brands deserved that level of empathy.

[@skyfi-app]

@@Avendesora It was like 8 comments dude. And we agreed it was a little bit much so we stopped. There are 500+ comments in this thing. Sorry if the human behind this keyboard hurt your feelings.

[@WaterjetChannel]

Me, a Utahn, wondering why it’s zooming in on the salt flats “Wait why are we going to Wendov- ahhh”

[@4RILDIGITAL]

I never realized how much work goes into the details of Google Maps. After learning about all these intricacies, I appreciate it even more. Fascinating stuff.

[@Nate5]

"fine folks at google" 0:24 triggers my google assistant

[@skyfi-app]

Oops! Well, SkyFi won’t trigger your assistant, but it will trigger your sense of adventure with amazing Earth views.

[@DanmakuFriedChicken]

Same

[@SuryaBudimansyah]

Fine folks indeed

[@gamagama69]

not sure theres any of those, probably barely even count as human

[@Lunar_OG]

My grandfather actually used to weld at the exact plant that was repeatedly referenced in Louisiana. Just thought it was neat. Port Fourchon. He was cajun-french and pronounced it "foo-shawn".

[@mpjopatv401]

That's how it's pronounced and called by the locals even though it's not spelled that way 😅

[@cannonwalker4713]

Wait, the ocean is real?

[@objectsupr9970]

-Tibetan monk

[@Uranium_Enjoyer]

No probably not

[@E1craZ4life]

Always has been.

[@christeanaz]

That's what Big ocean wants you to believe!

[@jbird4478]

Of course not. Have you ever seen water attach to a ball? All the water would fall off. The ocean can't be real.

[@ovinel]

The editing on this video is crazy good.

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

[@ZetaPyro]

especially considering all of the editors resigned in protest

[@skyfi-app]

Right?

[@Enoch_Trismegistus]

Clearly a big editing shill. Lol.

[@ryankrause618]

people who don't use maps in satellite mode need to be studied. like what are you looking at. i'm studying random places all day for no reason whatsoever.

[@phamwoaw]

I completely agree! why look at a man made digital layer of places when you can see real fixtures of the world to increase your awareness of points of interested and cardinal direction

[@ARose47]

@@phamwoaw Because I just need to know which street I'm gonna be making a turn into. Satellite mode makes everything look saturated when following GPS

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

I don't use them when I'm driving around, but when I'm sitting at home zooming around backwoods Kyrgyzstan from the comfort of my desk chair? heck yeah

[@DrunkSonicYT]

Uses more battery

[@zoeskinner2871]

Disagree I use it on the terrain setting and its so interesting from a geographical point of view

[@giovannifigoni]

I just want rainbolt to react to this video and geolocate all the pictures shown at the ending portion. It'll take him a minute at most anyway

[@kumbayo84]

I felt the same. Yeah, it will be too easy for him as many pictures already contain street names ;-)

[@SuryaBudimansyah]

"The sea looks Mexican"

[@vaszgul736]

Nice vid, honestly love that you were able to reach out to the people who actually work with these things.

[@claire2088]

Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

[@michaelclapp8694]

Finally I get my chance to correct the guy from Wendover!! Fourchon is pronounced Foo-Shawn

[@skyfi-app]

Unfortunately, we don't have experts to fact check this one.

[@yessitsme6884]

Actually, it's pronounced "fourchon"

[@benm1414]

@@yessitsme6884 or is it pronounced "fourskyn"?

[@chrisa9990]

+

[@brennonledet2943]

Can confirm, it's foo-chon. Latter part of the pronunciation was on point. With Louisiana place names, try making it sound french-y, but also pretend you have a mouth full of marbles.

[@hayleyxyz]

Out of all of the HAI videos, this is the only question I was actually curious about before watching

[@skyfi-app]

Curiosity satisfied! If you have more burning questions, SkyFi’s got all the answers with our real-time satellite imagery!

[@aminfozdar]

@@skyfi-appstop advertising here, it’s annoying

[@coffee-is-power]

1:40 fun fact, that algorithm was stol... i mean inspired by a ealier software called terravision which was made to run the terabytes or even petabytes of data of google maps on 90s hardware, it was so incridible that google used the same algorithm for google maps and google earth and everyone forgot the original one

[@scmike1229]

This was great. I worked at Bing maps about a decade ago and life revolved around tiles. I am not smart enough for this part of the process, but I was always blown away by the algorithms and computational power required for stitching, elevation / 3D modeling, lidar data processing, and projection of 2D textures onto 3D models.

[@Fanro3]

this video stands out from the endless expanse of hai videos on mildly interesting topics, idk what it is about it, the video is just unique

[@jensschroder8214]

Does that mean a large vessel can't use Google Street View to find its way across the seas?

[@dasmellyyooper]

You can tell Maps is made from tiles and mosaics when you zoom in and your internet or computer are slow and it takes time to render or fails to load at all

[@FinnPlanetballs]

6:54 ksp

[@wheepee]

fr

[@jasonthesnow]

The jump scare of seeing my old apartment complex in a HAI video

[@Parc_Ferme]

Funny Jokes aside LOL. Your editors made an incredible amazing job in this video! You guys rocks!

[@Veilure]

These just keep getting better. Great job.

[@djksfhakhaks]

Are we still pretending that you arent in love with Amy?

[@kenmore01]

Well, she did blow off that satellite build.

[@timothydavis8388]

Fun fact, my dad wrote the base code that Google uses to stitch the pictures together, since it's open source and google didn't put it in a product that they sell they didn't need to pay him, but they did send him a thank you back pack, check, and fund his research.

[@SaltHuman]

Nice

[@retrorampage4666]

Cool

[@theairaccumulator7144]

If its open source what's the name of yhe project?

[@draco2351]

My remote sensing class is coming in handy! Ah, so much time spent atmospheric correcting and orthorectifying imagery.

[@amehak1922]

I do admire their attention to detail putting the ocean floor instead of just the surface waves

[@bmac4]

0:45 I like how you chose to zoom in on Wendover in Utah and Nevada, AKA the place Utahns drive from the capital to to do their gambling

[@JoeJaJoeJoe]

Wendover: where Salt Lake City residents buy weed and liquor

[@smashedpotato8689]

And Wendover Productions

[@kennymcats]

You just covered a month's worth of my satellite imagery college course in the span of a single video. Well done! The tiling is common to many mapping softwares today. Imperfect, but brilliantly scalable and effective.

[@AsterGB]

It's funny how cheesecake is mentioned. Allow me to change your view on it with a wall of how cheesecake could be a currency. so like basically bakeries are the new banks, they store money in the form of cheesecakes. There's two different cheesecakes, edibile (food) cheesecake and monetary cheesecake. Purchases are made with a standardised cheesecake slice size (say, a 1/32 sliced cheesecake as the smallest size slice) and the slices can be put together to form sorts of like accounts and stuff To ensure the cheesecake stays good it's made and stored in a refridgerated room, with a new cake of equal status replacing it every month. The old cheesecake can be used as animal feed or something idk maybe even fuel who knows It's a completely sustainable system once it's been put in place. The way it's sustainable is there are farms that work for the bankeries and they provide all the resources required for the monetary cheesecakes for free. The farms aren't required to pay property taxes or bills on their stuff. They do still have to pay for anything they buy though, so they get a subsidiary of 128 cheesecakes (4096 slices) each month. By the way, each slice would be equivalent to $3 USD to make transitioning easier.

[@SkyForceOne2]

you have converted me

[@Tallus08]

lol. Him trying to say Port Fourchon hurts my ears.

[@Rotary9000]

Haha came to post this. Its Port Foo-shon Sam 😜

[@BrettBeard-mt1go]

Lol I was about to comment that! I used to work down there

[@dickbutt7854]

Same

[@Julianna.Domina]

Fiji Arabia mentioned 💪🏼 My homeland is strong and united

[@jgagnier]

When an HAI video features something on a map that's really, really, REALLY close to where you live... it's eerie, let me tell you.

[@Axonteer]

Yay Switzerland is for a short moment in the center of the video frame! Happy me :D

[@godowrk3360]

This video was not only written really well, but put together in such a great way it’s a go-to for explaining how Google maps works

[@lilbitesgames385]

Expanse mention!!

[@joshthesarge]

Made a high g burn for this comment; did not leave disappointed

[@JoeJaJoeJoe]

Beltalowda!

[@MekarWB]

For some reason this video really put into perspective how monumental and insane Google Earth is. We really take for granted the fact that we have this insane ability that humans did not have even when I was in high school.

[@RedstoneMiner18]

0:21 triggered my Google assistant lol

[@A_King99]

No body cares

[@RedstoneMiner18]

@A_King99 5 people did, and u replied so maybe 6 unless u liked too

[@chadcatidkimnotachadidenti7973]

​@@A_King99and you are a nobody

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

6:26 I live near the bean in Chicago and it never crossed my mind to look at satellite images of it but now that you brought it up, I really am interested in that view now!

[@TejasKunduru]

2:58 Sounds like the best Geoguessr AI. . . SIFT + AROSICS vs. Rainbolt would be crazy

[@SteelKicker01]

Google maps is probably one of the most underrated things we have created as humans. I mean, we literally completely made an interactive map of the entire earth.

[@quikesteve]

Outside correspondent Amy needs to be Sam's next partner in Jet Lag the game next season!

[@corrinajhartman7543]

kinda a jump scare when u randomly click a youtube video and sam starts spewing facts at you

[@Guilojr]

BABE WAKE UP A NEW HALF AS INTERESTING VIDEO JUST DROPPED!

[@skyfi-app]

Wake up and smell the satellite images, babe! SkyFi’s got you covered with endless interesting views.

[@maxmyzer9172]

Note: While some places do use satellite photos at high zooms, more populated places use ariel photography from an aircraft

[@battlnerd2128]

americans will use iphones as a unit of measurement before they use meters

[@TheJelleH]

Truee

[@silverXnoise]

If you need a map to find the bean, I feel sorry for your significant other.

[@matthewpoyner]

I know Louisiana place names, especially in the southern part of the state, are difficult, but Port Fourchon is pronounced “Port Foo-shawn”

[@theguy9208]

i disagree, just because those cajun hicks forgot how to pronounce french doesnt change the name. should be foor-shawn, the only silent letter in french is x

[@DylanMcMullen]

Getting people to guess how to say names here is always fun. Like Tchoupitoulas (i even had to google how to spell it right)

[@themenacingpenguin.7152]

Louisiana was founded by the French so I can't be surprised their pronunciation is something I never want to understand and will substitute with something that is intentionally incorrect.

[@Nooticus]

such a great video. like genuinely the same level as wendover videos at this point. in fact probably more entertaining personally. love google maps so this was really appreciated

[@rolaca11]

3:30 rainbolt could tell you in a 0.1s, even if you black and white the picture

[@BierBart12]

6:22 I recently started using satellite view on phone google maps, spotted all kinds of interesting stuff while driving around and now I don't think I could go back to simple view. Besides that, my brain GPS generally works by memorizing how an area generally looks(I can never remember street names), and satellite view really has been helping me find my way without turning on GPS. It's a fun brain exercise

[@poif1105]

thanks for highlighting Montreal!!!

[@silentninja3161]

This is honestly one of thr most interesting videos I ever seen, i always use google maps daily on satellite view to get around and i always wondered why some images seem like 2 pics taken at different times, now i know

[@TranslucentGanon]

6:55 KSP reference wasn’t on my HAI bingo card but I love KSP so it was a welcome surprise

[@decorumpantroglodytes5962]

:D

[@demanorazfly]

The editors deserve a bonus on this one

[@fraughtmikester]

Loved the video! just a small note from someone that lives here. Because of Louisiana's heavy French influence, Fourchon is pronounced Fu-Shaw(n) (the more cajun don't add the N to the end :)

[@judy3827]

I feel like, to me, the most interesting thing he said in this video is that we actually don't even know what most of the ocean floor looks like but he kinda just brushed that off

[@WinterInTheForest]

Obviously there's something going on in the ocean they don't want us knowing about.

[@HundBlu]

Very nice thumbnail! Shows the subject, no clickbait, visually pleasing. Good job :)

[@fityfofilms]

I just completed the Esri Cartography MOOC to improve my use of ArcGIS so it's really cool to see some of the topics covered here! The editing work is also excellent. Well done HAI!

[@genghisdingus]

Google employees being told about having to make google earth: The bad news is you have to map the entire planet. The good news is you can cheat on 71% of it.

[@TimothyWhiteheadzm]

Small correction: 1:20 zooming in does not make it less distorted. lines of longitude remain parallel whatever the zoom level and the closer you are to the poles the more that distorts the image and makes relative areas wrong. Of course google maps does have a mode with a globe view that avoids this.

[@tsundoku5939]

I watched this entire video like I don't know it all already as a Geography/Cartography student. But it was a great video!

[@qfurgie]

5:18 so am I sam, so am i

[@filedotnix]

This answers a question I've always had, which is how Google Maps stays accurate at close levels while using a flat map projection!

[@filedotnix]

Also, why did I never realize that they'd have to edit out clouds from satellite images?

[@gdclemo]

@@filedotnix there used to be a park in London that looked like it had a plane in it, as it was photographed from above. I see they've edited it out now. What I don't get is why the ocean floor seems to have those long trails across it. Like all those long thin bumpy strips of sea bed criss-crossing the ocean. Is it data from ships taken along the ship's path? Except the surface seems to be much bumpier along the strip than across it.

[@Picobits]

genuinely thought the stock footage person at 6:16 was Sam for a second

[@nixielee]

You should do a video on how Google stole Maps from a bunch of German nerds way back before anyone thought this could even be done

[@goinkosu]

I have a fear of google Satellite View, especially when I'm moving across the map. I only turn it on in stationary positions when I need it. It's hard to explain but it just makes me uncomfortable

[@vinnysworkshop]

wut?

[@bonniedan123mc]

The Google maps zoom being a portal to better pictures is quite tangible when the internet was slow or got cut off XD When the internet is slow, the zoom only makes blobs of colors show up on screen.

[@kaymaynard1460]

I love this video because the water on Google earth used to scare the shit out of me and give me nightmares. thank you Sam, not all heroes wear capes

[@HoloTheDrunk]

My work involves improving a geographical data visualization library and water is a nightmare for LIDAR-based measures as well for similar reasons as explained in this video.

[@metalxhead]

0:47 Being pedantic, but the earth is a spheroid, not round; that extra dimension is important, especially when contrasting a flat earth. A flat earth can be round because circles are round; a flat earth cannot be a spheroid. Edit: Corrected "spherical" to "a spheroid." :)

[@jbird4478]

Being extra pedantic, but the earth is a spheroid, not a sphere.

[@LaPingvino]

Dutch comedian Herman Finkers famously made the joke that the earth is round, like a pancake.

[@metalxhead]

@@jbird4478 Oh, I see. I thought "spherical" meant "similar to a sphere" and wasn't just the adjective to describe a sphere. I appreciate the polite and pedantic correction :)

[@metalxhead]

@@LaPingvino I tried to find an English version to better appreciate the joke in context, but alas, it seems to be for Dutch ears only haha

[@PopCapMusicTrending]

Simple: It's like painting pixel by pixel vs painting with brush. With satellite camera, they can capture wide area with only numbers of shots. But capturing sea bed, only ships can do that.

[@DavidChong]

ha! one of my professors in uni, David Lowe, developed SIFT (scale invariant feature transform)

[@jolly-rancher]

the problem is that they cut off coverage too abruptly. there are islands off the coast here, and they happen to be along a somewhat contested borderline, and they're invisible on satellite view which i think is ridiculous.

[@Not_Diderik]

My mans just casually shows my house in this video, thanks Sam...

[@plutoniumdust]

this video took 2 whole minutes of my life to explain what google maps is and i'll never get that back

[@JesusMartinez-rr2ry]

Humanity knows more about outer space than the bottom of the oceans at their home planet.

[@shakeelali20]

Yep. It always amazes me that we figured out heat shields and ion propulsion and yet we still can't make vessels capable of exploring the ocean floor for any great length of time.

[@wolfcat1998]

They know. Why do you think they want to get off the planet so badly?

[@EebstertheGreat]

Kind of. We know a lot about things that we can see in space. We know very little about the details of distant objects, because we can't see them. For the same reason, we know hardly anything about dark matter. We can't see anything _at all_ under the ocean, so of course we will know less in that sense. But we have sonar, and that shows us vastly more detail about the ocean floor than we have of even the moon. The best resolution achieved in photographs of the moon taken from earth is a few meters, compared to a few millimeters for multi-beam sonar of the ocean. And we know a lot about currents, for instance, which are barely understood in space at all.

[@andrewcheng1998]

⁠@@shakeelali20we in some way can do that. like there are submarines capable to reach the Titanic. but either we put somebody in the submarine and become the weakest link of the submarine or we make it fully autonomous because radio communications or light don’t go through water very well.

[@VitalVampyr]

If you consider percentages we know a great deal about the oceans and hardly anything about outer space. There's just so much outer space to see that the essentially nothing we do know seems like a lot.

[@pinnacleexpress420]

As expected, such a great video. Wonderful editing

[@jessehammer123]

0:04 What’s the deal with the David Parker Gallery?

[@lucase.2546]

perhaps the team just dragged a pin over the area south of Central Park? and that’s what Google Maps happened to pick? the gallery is permanently closed now incidentally

[@damianp7313]

Im glad ur still making. Videos lol i randomly found ur chanel again asking a question i was always wounderingb🎉

[@Mynamewashere]

So this is why I got lost on my way to the Bikini Bottom

[@macmedic892]

Were you going there to steal the Krabby Patty recipe?

[@cebo494]

Weird criticism, but the main song used has a weird baseline that, at least with good headphones, occasionally sounded like someone banging on my walls and kinda spooked me a little bit once or twice.

[@Deimos27889]

2:01 golden ratio?

[@ferretyluv]

The fact they don’t bother with the ocean has caused me so many problems. There was a bright light off the coast of where I was staying. It was too far away for me to see it during the day, but close enough that I could see a vague boat like shape. Except boats move, this one wasn’t. So I tried looking on google maps right where I was aaaaaand… nothing. Didn’t even bother showing it. It was just far enough off the coast that Google maps wouldn’t show it. It was very annoying and it took me YEARS to find out that it’s some kind of oil rig, which I found weird because I didn’t think that area had any oil.

[@ascalation]

They look so fake because the good old drawn-in sea monsters and shipwrecks are simply missing. Just like you know it from old maps.

[@aromaticsnail]

1:07 for the curious minds, these (not) "circles" are called Tissot's Indicatrices and they describe the local distortions on a map projection