{"id":2453,"date":"2009-01-16T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:24:12","slug":"interesting-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/01\/16\/interesting-flare\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Flare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SXEW9PsTkvI\/AAAAAAAAAXw\/MOLXlnm-IbQ\/s1600-h\/Picture+1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 310px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Picture1-1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292036278577238770\" \/><\/a><br \/>I was idly playing with Google Maps a moment ago and zoomed into the <a href=\"http:\/\/dlgregersen.blogspot.com\/\">Gregerson<\/a>&#8216;s house at Namwianga Mission in Zambia (just south of Kalomo) and was surprised to see that their house had been removed as if by a knife scrape on a film emulsion.  I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s the place.  I recognize their yard and their garden across the road.  It&#8217;s just another quirk of the global mapping database.  I suppose it could be a sunflare from their metal roof or even some kind of crude security mask, but I suspect it&#8217;s just an accidental injury to an aerial photo or something like that.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Update:  The more I look at it the more it does look like a sun flare.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was idly playing with Google Maps a moment ago and zoomed into the Gregerson&#8216;s house at Namwianga Mission in Zambia (just south of Kalomo) and was surprised to see that their house had been removed as if by a knife scrape on a film emulsion. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s the place. I recognize their yard&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/01\/16\/interesting-flare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Interesting Flare?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[314,315,316],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Picture1-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Dz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}