{"id":53,"date":"2006-01-17T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T20:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=53"},"modified":"2006-01-17T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T20:04:35","slug":"ads-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/ads-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads from above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA Target store has painted a huge Target logo on their roof, so that it can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.006505,-87.887138&#038;z=0&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\">in satellite pictures such as those in Google Maps<\/a>. (Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/01\/17\/stores_paint_ads_on_.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIngeniously obvious &ndash; it&rsquo;s a great way to advertise your location &ndash; and it&rsquo;ll be interesting to see where this goes. We&rsquo;ve already also got <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=35.511549,-104.579887&#038;spn=0.058143,0.097521&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\">the Scientologists&rsquo; symbol<\/a>. I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll soon be seeing dedicated art \/ installation projects that are meant to be viewed from high above.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/perljam.net\/google-satellite-maps\/\">Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps<\/a> has many more interesting views.)\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Edit:<\/i> It appears that the logo was originally painted for overflying aircraft and not Google Maps. Less amusing, but the point still holds true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Target store has painted a huge Target logo on their roof, so that it can be seen in satellite pictures such as those in Google Maps. (Found via BoingBoing.) Ingeniously obvious &ndash; it&rsquo;s a great way to advertise your location &ndash; and it&rsquo;ll be interesting to see where this goes. We&rsquo;ve already also got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky_things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}