What is it? [Archive]

PacWestGS

10-12-2006, 09:32 PM

Most of the ones like that I know about are used by the police in aircraft to time the speed between any two markings. They don't have to be a mile and maybe the shape/angle of the ones they are using there specify a shorter distance bewteen the lines.

Have you heard about VASCAR. Time vs. any known distance = actual speed. No radar just a printout from the on-board computer...

Someday big brother is going to be issuing speeding tickets from outer space right to your mailbox.

JMHO
YMMV

Doc

PAULBACH

10-13-2006, 06:37 AM

That explanation makes sense but they show up in odd places. This one is in front of my house in a closed loop neighborhood. Fastest thing is neighborhood are kids speeding by on bicycles.

Mika

10-13-2006, 08:06 AM

Pic points sat. photo

I am guessing that it something along this line. Have you checked with the county highway department?

My 5 year old granddaughter Brylee thinks that it is a small 'r'. I asked if it could be an upside down L and she just gave me - the look - and asked for some chocolate milk.

crazydrummerdude

10-13-2006, 08:26 AM

Pic points sat. photo

That's what I'm thinking.

Motor31

10-13-2006, 09:09 AM

Call the streets department for your community if it's in town. I doubt that it would be related to a satelite photo, larger landmarks than that are used for satelites and even arial photos as well. Given the scale of it an arial photo mapping situation is far more likely than any satelite purpose.

Vascar markings are out of the question since it's in the neighborhood you described. It may be something related to underground pipes / wires but they usually don't bother with markings that clear, just spray painted.

Perhaps it's a landing marker for UFO's......... :dunno :hide :bolt

20774

10-13-2006, 09:11 AM

Does the number 6014 match up with anything? Street address, GPS (not!), or ???

Kurt in S.A.

username

10-13-2006, 09:22 AM

go paint over it with grey/black paint, and then paint a replica of that one about 100 feet down the road.

:D

PAULBACH

10-13-2006, 09:30 AM

MCMXCIVRS

10-13-2006, 09:44 AM

Called the county highway department and they said they did not paint them but they "think" they are being used for aerial surveys. I asked for mapping for what or surveying for what and their reply was they had no idea.

Have a call into the town highway department. :brow

Its got to be the ailiens then. :uhoh Or the CIA :uhoh Better stop asking questions if you know what's good for you. They're watching. :bolt

PacWestGS

10-13-2006, 10:08 AM

Strange... Please do let us know. And if you have to call from Gitmo I think you dial 011- to get out of the country. Hehehe :brow

Crow18

10-13-2006, 10:15 AM

Cover it up with a pile of leaves or something, and see which super-secret gubmint agency shows up to clear them away.

Me, I think some aerial-photo-editing lackey at Google Maps is about to crop your neighborhood. Be sure not to stand directly on the mark, or things could get messy.

Burnszilla

10-13-2006, 10:42 AM

Does it point to an airport? It might be an arrow to help small craft airplanes to find the local airport.

godzilla

10-13-2006, 11:06 AM

"They" are going to build I69 from Evansville to Indy and it goes right near my house :mad .

"They" painted those kinds of marks all along the route to be used for thr aerial photography, some are white and others are yellow. The positioning of the mark tells you the layout of the road, with the longer leg being paralell to the planned highway.

Are there plans afoot in your area to build a new highway?

PacWestGS

10-13-2006, 11:38 AM

Definately some kind of aerial surveying going on, but I see this as another opportuntity (excuse if you will) to go for a ride. Paul do you have a GPS? Go find all the markings you can and plot them on the GPS with any numbers you find painted next to the marking. Then go home and download the info to your PC and play connect the dots.

It could be something as easy as a road widening project for the current road (although the one in your neighborhood takes away from that thought). Maybe an underground pipeline, NatGas, or a sewer system for some planned new housing.

Near my house, they just recently put in a four-foot steel pipeline that is streching from Tacoma south, so far 20-miles of this thing and I have no idea what it's going to carry. Gas I think, but liquid or other I don't know.
I didn't pay any attention to whether they painted markings on the road before they got to it, and dug it up, but they probably did. I know it crosses about 30 or more roads in the area, but the area they cleared (clear cut and grade) on each side of it is big enough for a two-lane highway which TTBOMK is not going to be a highway.

Doc

BubbaZanetti

10-13-2006, 11:38 AM

go paint over it with grey/black paint, and then paint a replica of that one about 100 feet down the road.

:D

it's people like you that cause homeland security such headaches :violin

PAULBACH

10-13-2006, 05:39 PM

I know where there are a couple more will some additional data. All of your comments are great but these things are for real. Maybe this is the October suprise but they have been here since September.

Burnszilla

10-13-2006, 06:27 PM

Was this sign nearby?
http://www.gearthblog.com/images/black_helicopter_shirt.jpg

PAULBACH

10-13-2006, 07:28 PM

I live about 1.5 miles from a small airport (http://www.airnav.com/airport/5B2) . Hmmmm Maybe I should check the hangers.

Are Black Helicopters anything like Phantom Helicopters?

crazydrummerdude

10-13-2006, 08:51 PM

Strange... Please do let us know. And if you have to call from Gitmo I think you dial 011- to get out of the country. Hehehe :brow

As a kid, I remember calling 1 (234) 567-8910. It was some government agency.

Mika

10-13-2006, 11:14 PM

Its got to be the ailiens then. :uhoh Or the CIA :uhoh Better stop asking questions if you know what's good for you. They're watching. :bolt

Paul, have you done something to make the Great Sausage upset? I hear he is CIA(rumor from another thread). He and his black ops team could be locking in target coordinates for their space based lazer zapper thingie. :uhoh

PAULBACH

10-14-2006, 05:57 AM

The VT MOV is having a fall ride this morning. I will be on the lookout for more of these "markings." I was also in VT yesterday and the riding was sublime. Beautiful colors, not much traffic and hardly a straight or level stretch to be found.

Have many, many colorful shots to post. Sorting them out is like shovelling snow in Buffalo.

OUTBACKUFO

10-14-2006, 12:22 PM

Its got to be the ailiens then. :uhoh Or the CIA :uhoh Better stop asking questions if you know what's good for you. They're watching. :bolt

dont look at me for the answers :nono my kinda only turns cows inside out for fun :laugh

BradfordBenn

10-14-2006, 05:46 PM

I have gotten a sercret comminique from the Leadership Sausage this morning... he sez he is on vacation and as soon as he is done learning how to fly Black Helicopters he will answer the phone :stick

GeneT

10-15-2006, 10:46 AM

Was this sign nearby?
http://www.gearthblog.com/images/black_helicopter_shirt.jpg

Black helicopters are usually bad news for the bad guys, these belong to Federal Law Enforcement and usually have small gold colored letters indicating which agency they belong to. In many cases they are like nuns, they travel in pairs.

:dance

Visian

10-15-2006, 02:59 PM

http://paul2.net/photos/firehydrant.jpg

were there any fire hydrants or other type of facilities device like a power transformer nearby?

Lots of times aerial surveyor who are building a GIS (geographic information system) database of facilities will paint symbols on roads to make the actual devices easier to locate in aerial photographs.

PAULBACH

10-15-2006, 09:06 PM

Here is another one of the road markings. I parked the K75 next to it to give you and idea of size. No black helicopters were seen in the area.

20774

10-16-2006, 06:22 AM

Can you get any GPS readings for each mark that you find...can you locate them on a map? Do you have information on the orientation of each "L" in terms of the directions it points (N, E, W, S) and how one mark may "match up" with another mark? I'm wondering if there aren't four marks which consitute the corners of a box...

Kurt in S.A.

PAULBACH

10-16-2006, 06:30 AM

Sent an email to a local newspaper (Albany Times Union) that does a traffic & roads report once a week. I suspect we will have the answere within a week or so.

wmubrown

10-16-2006, 07:50 AM

Most of the ones like that I know about are used by the police in aircraft to time the speed between any two markings. They don't have to be a mile and maybe the shape/angle of the ones they are using there specify a shorter distance bewteen the lines.
Doc
Those are big yellow 'X's, not big while 'L's. These are for sattelite/aerial photos.

PAULBACH

10-16-2006, 08:13 AM

They sure look white and they photograph white. :brow

I got a call this morning from the town highway department. He said they have something to do with the airport nearby but is not sure what their function is.

My next step will be to go to the airport and try to find further information.

PacWestGS

10-16-2006, 08:53 AM

Those are big yellow 'X's, not big while 'L's. These are for sattelite/aerial photos.

Maybe in your neck of the woods, out west they are white "lines", "Arrows" "Diamonds" and just about anything else they can know about.

They are using aircraft to spot speeders on I-5 during medium to light rush hour traffic in and around Seattle proper. So it's just not for the open road any more.

It saddens me to know that between Seattle and Olympia or Marysville where it's posted 60 and congested with a lot coffee drinking cell phone talking distracted drivers I have to drive between 70-80 or risk getting run over. South of Olympia where the road is long, with few exits and less traffic it's posted 70 and if I go 75 I may get a driver's award.

Something backwards about driving in any major metropolitan area in the US. You have to speed up the closer to the city center until you are going L.A. (California) speeds of 80-100. :doh

Ooops tangent, over... :nyah

BradfordBenn

10-16-2006, 06:40 PM

Here is another one of the road markings. I parked the K75 next to it to give you and idea of size. No black helicopters were seen in the area.

WEll they are camoflagued in Black after all :)

gsinmaine

10-16-2006, 09:36 PM

Soooo how far was I ???? and naaa to ufo's But??how knows

PAULBACH

10-17-2006, 05:56 AM

Operations are still sound at the White House. A couple of the bar patrons look a bit strange but that is entirely normal. Please keep the location of this strategic watering hole TS.

DADODIRT

10-18-2006, 01:48 PM

I am a Professional Land Surveyor in Colorado. I have done a lot of work with air photos and have never seen one that is L shaped. Usually they are an X or a 3 way intersection. They measure between 8 and 12 feet per leg and are visible from above. How big are the L's?

PGlaves

10-18-2006, 04:42 PM

These clearly are reference points for aerial photography. They may be near section corners or other known/documented survey points, or they may be placed with a generalized but not precise spacing and pattern.

At some point in time, before it disappears, a survey crew will precisely locate each mark's position. Usually both horizontally and vertically (elevation above sea level based on some USGS benchmark). Then those marks and their positions will be used by the photographic lab to scale correct the photography, both horizontally and vertically, if it is 3D topographic photography.

Been there, done that, working on a survey crew - both painting targets and surveying their locations later. We did the entirety of Story County in Iowa - not for any specific project but because the County was obtaining a new aerial photo set covering the entire county. We were hired by the aerial photography company to do their ground control survey work.

PAULBACH

10-18-2006, 05:08 PM

Will check this out with county highway department. It all sounds reasonable.

Mar

10-19-2006, 09:23 AM

I have gotten a sercret comminique from the Leadership Sausage this morning... he sez he is on vacation and as soon as he is done learning how to fly Black Helicopters he will answer the phone.

Hmmmm. Look for this when he returns:

wmubrown

10-19-2006, 10:58 AM

Hmmmm. Look for this when he returns:
That's nature's way of saying "Don't Touch".

DADODIRT

10-19-2006, 01:27 PM

Paul-I'm still not convinced that they are for aerial photography, survey purposes. Could be, but not convinced. I don't remember ever seeing them 'L' shaped. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Just that I am used to 'X' pattern. We normally will set a spike or rebar(something permanent) at the intersection.

bigfoot105

10-19-2006, 04:17 PM

The "L"s "X"s and "Diamonds" have the same effect as "Crop Circles" in fields. (makes more sense from above) Its just too difficult for them to organize asphalt pebbles/rocks in the same directions. So, they use paint instead.

:laugh

:dance