Hello, Google Maps!

[soulxtc]

With advertising already appearing everywhere from fresh produce to the crappy movie you just paid $12 to see, it was inevitable that advertisers would finally look to the skies.

The amazing success of Google Maps has seen a new marketing phenomenon: Retailers are painting logos on rooftops in hopes of getting online-map users as customers.
http://www.sploid.com/images/newadvertizing.jpg
Target stores have begun painting massive logos on the rooftops of the big-box retailers.

Roof advertising isn't new, but it was generally limited to the areas around commercial airports. Google Maps uses satellite imagery taken all over the world.

READ ARTICLE (http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/01/hello_google_ma.php)

[Auggie2k]

Aren't all Google Map images a couple of years old?

[moneoa]

Aren't all Google Map images a couple of years old?
Anytime in the last 5 years though if the demand was big enough I am sure they would start providing more recent shots, they own Keyhole so I am sure it would nto be that hard.

The ad revenue from stuff like this might be the catalyst.

[Fudge Tunnel]

They should try that in Iraq to reduce friendly fire.

[broadwayrock]

That would not work:

In 2001 the US army bombed a Red Cross warehouse in Afghanistan TWICE even though there was a big red cross logo painted on the roof.

http://www.therationalradical.com/dsep/red-cross-bomb.htm