Google Messed up! Double CN Tower in Streetview

Posted by Tricia in Sunday, October 11th 2009   
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Ha! Google didn’t edit all the shots it has of the CN Tower (Still the worlds largest standing tower for a few months!) in it’s newly released Streetview Canada.

If you go to Google maps to try out Streetview and type in 52 Manitoba Drive, Toronto, Ontario and spin around to the right a few times you’ll see this:

Double CN Tower - Google Streetview

Double CN Tower - Google Streetview

I just heard about this on this evenings CTV news and I had to go searching for it myself. It’s a pretty cool picture, but I’d imagine that Google will fix this pretty soon!

When I first went to Google maps I just typed in CN Tower, Toronto and it put me at the base of the tower on Bremner Blvd, Toronto, Ontario … Of course I couldn’t find the double tower that way … but after traveling North on Bremner Blvd in street view I found this picture (after tilting upward of course):

Top half of CN Tower is off kilter - Google Streetview

Top half of CN Tower is off kilter - Google Streetview

When I zoomed out it looks like you might be able to get to this address by typing in 200 Bremner Blvd, Toronto, Ontario (at Lower Simcoe St.).

Actually, I gave it a try and I got an even cooler shot! Take a peek!

CN tower top offset in Google Streetview

CN tower top offset in Google Streetview

Are you able to access Google Streetview for your area of the world yet? If so you might want to waste a little bit of time looking around your city or town and see if you can find any odd views like I’ve posted here. My guess is that taller structures will be more likely to be messed up.

Let me know if you find anything interesting!

BTW Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians!

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Dorothy Stahlnecker (10 comments.) said in October 11th, 2009 at 11:15 pm    

It first said error fill in fields so I’m trying again..

Dorothy from grammology
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Ricky (0 comments.) said in October 12th, 2009 at 4:51 am    

Well it is sad that Google is not rectifying it. Google did show some sensitive area of India as well. Terrorists can easily target those area with few clicks of the finger.

Tricia (571 comments.) said in October 12th, 2009 at 4:34 pm    

Well Ricky … Google Streetview for Canada only started on October 7th so it’s only been a few days where the public has been able to access it. I think it’s likely they’ll correct the CN Tower mess up soon as it’s a famous Toronto landmark.

Tricia (571 comments.) said in October 12th, 2009 at 4:45 pm    

Hey Dorothy .. thanks for trying to comment again. I can’t figure out why you are having trouble. I thought it was my anti-spam plugin (WP-Spamfree) but it doesn’t seem like it is since your comments are showing up in the blocked comment logging file that I turned on. Hmm i wonder if it’s an add-on on your browser that’s causing a problem … do you have a javascript blocker or perhaps a no ads add on?

Is anyone else having trouble when they try to comment on posts on this site? If so, please leave a comment on the contact form as that seems to work fine, and let me know if you see any errors when you try to comment. Thanks!

Hector Neil Santos (0 comments.) said in October 14th, 2009 at 6:34 am    

Whoa, such a keen eye.. Nice view, and nice skills to see that ..

Rock On!

zebra comforter set (0 comments.) said in October 14th, 2009 at 10:42 am    

I was surprised to find the other day that google street view was working. What i want to know is when they took these pictures? I never saw anyone take these pictures! Reason im so curious is because on my street view is a car i purchased 2 weeks ago, my office is facing the street, never saw anyone taking photos

Dragan Mestrovic (0 comments.) said in October 14th, 2009 at 12:06 pm    

There are always pros and cons in technological evolution.
You can’t only get the best things sometimes it is accompanied with worst things also!

nile cruise (0 comments.) said in October 14th, 2009 at 12:49 pm    

Hey Ricky, you are correct the Mumbai 27/4 attack also planned through by Google map only, after they reached mumbai they use Google maps through cellphones and they went to their area etc etc..

Tricia (571 comments.) said in October 14th, 2009 at 2:06 pm    

Zebra – you don’t say where you are – Are you in Toronto? It said on the news that they’ve been taking pictures in Toronto since 2007, but news stories about Google car sightings didn’t really come out until earlier this summer in June.

I didn’t seem them drive by my house either, but judging from the way things look ie no leaves on trees, no flowers coming up in my garden and no snow the pictures of my house and street must have been done in late March or early April.

Tricia (571 comments.) said in October 14th, 2009 at 2:10 pm    

Nile I didn’t know that they used Google Maps when they planned their attack in Mumbai. Even so … if Google Maps didn’t exist they would have used normal maps or some other tool for their planning. Sad but true.

gorillas (8 comments.) said in October 14th, 2009 at 11:33 pm    

Very interesting sometimes how errors make you see things a different way. The first photo reminded me of the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia and confused me for a minute before I understood what was going on. Its fun to play with, you can’t expect to much precision at this point. Imagine how much time it takes to map everything!

Bloggers Payback (0 comments.) said in October 15th, 2009 at 9:45 pm    

Hi Tricia, sorry, I’m not from Canada, so forgive my question. Is it supposed to be one or two towers?
Thanks: Rob

Tricia (571 comments.) said in October 15th, 2009 at 11:43 pm    

Bloggers Payback the CN Tower is the worlds tallest tower. You’ve never seen it?

Yes it’s supposed to be one long skinny tower like this photo I took of it at sunset from the lake, or these photos from the base of the tower.

Jean-Luc Picard (421 comments.) said in October 16th, 2009 at 3:50 pm    

They got my house here in Britain.

Ledward (1 comments.) said in October 18th, 2009 at 1:18 pm    

That’s a very interesting ante dote about Google. That just goes to show you that no one or nothing is perfect.

Google recently built a new server farm in my neck of the woods and looking at the job requirements it was mind boogling. They expected a TON of formal education AND related work experience.

Part of negotiations involved special tax incentives granted by our local and city and county and they’d help stimulate the local economy by hiring locals.

Most of the work force where I live are not technical in nature–hence Google did most of the hiring by promoting from within or getting folks from other areas.

Jean Baptiste (0 comments.) said in October 20th, 2009 at 12:40 pm    

Lol..this one’s a nice find :) The image splitting of the top half of the tower is acceptable. But the double tower makes me lol.. You could report this to Google, rather.. :P

Peter K (0 comments.) said in October 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 am    

Same warping/distortion happened with the tower here in Sydney. Google Aus fixed that up quick when it made the news. Must have been a slow needs day.

Bissell Spot Lifter (0 comments.) said in November 2nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm    

Hi Tricia,

Google hasn’t done my area yet (whitby), or haven’t posted it yet anyway. I hope it’s a good shot when they do though. My wife likes to leave the garbage and recycling on the porch for me to put in the garage when I get home. That would be embarrassing if they got a picture of that, lol.

I’m sure there has to be a website dedicated to funny or interesting things found on Google Streetview. I’ll let you know if I find anything interesting in the GTA.

Steve

Professor Muckefuck (1 comments.) said in November 23rd, 2009 at 9:48 pm    

I noticed that the tower was split. I am just glad Google didn’t see me walking around in my underwear through my street level window.

I was excited when Google maps came out, and now this. Awesome.

Josh (0 comments.) said in November 24th, 2009 at 8:42 pm    

I’m not sure if google can “mess up”. Are you sure it isn’t our perception of reality that is wrong?

Scotia Systems (0 comments.) said in December 14th, 2009 at 5:45 am    

Tricia,

If you like this – did you hear about the Canadian musician that followed the StreetView cars around and managed to get himself and an advert photographed? :-)

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