I found it completely by accident. I started out playing with Google Earth, experimenting with the new "Street view" option which sets new levels of disconcerting levels of detail.. I say disconcerting because it's become a whole new venue for putting pictures of random people online, there's one example where some person on a park bench was discovered picking his nose.. I can't quite come up with a convincing argument against this, but to me it's starting to raise some privacy concerns.
Still it's an interesting feature, I'm fascinated by the idea of taking a van outfitted with cameras and automatically blanketing an entire city in panoramic photos that allow you to practically drive through the streets by transitioning from one photo to another. You know, when we spend large amounts of time taking and then processing a single panoramic picture,
After I discovered how limited their street level coverage was I switched my focus to Orlando. It's among my favorite targets for satellite viewing, if nothing else I keep hoping for more recent imagery that'll show newer versions of the parks with the updated attractions. But I was getting clumsy, I did my usual trick of first locating Orlando International, then using that for a sense of scale and locating Disney World. No, I don't use landmark streets, I don't know why but that's become my method. If I need to I use Cape Canaveral for additional reference. But somehow I REALLY messed things up. The map wasn't scrolling smoothly enough, I was getting some leftover imagery that was muddling the process, and I got well and truly lost. And then, all of a sudden, there was this ginormous mouse ears pattern right there on my screen.
I went to Google Earth to see if there was any explanation for it, but there were just three markers mentioning that it was there.
Yeah, it's got to be the work of a creative farmer. But I'm still surprised to see it. I guess farmers would have to have some sense of scale, they'd have to understand the layout of their land, but to make such reasonably perfect circles at that scale still impresses me. I want to say that it suggests a certain skill at surveying, but at the same time a reasonably inexpensive GPS receiver would probably simplify the whole process.
