Incredible: Mowed down ground image immortalized forever on Google Earth and Google Maps

Mountain View. 2023: Google updates its satellite data for the map services Google Maps and Google Earth. What no one expected: Anyone searching for "Vierkirchen" in the north of Munich in one of the Google services will not believe their eyes: In the middle of the barren wintry fields, a satellite photo from a great height reveals an artifact that leaves one in awe. This would be material for TV series like "Unexplained Phenomena". It is a well-known logo, which can still be recognized in the field, although in late autumn all fields have long since been mowed and already plowed. So what is it all about?

Ground image on Google Earth in the north of Munich on a large field was originally field advertising of Volksbank Raiffeisenbank — Former ground image seen from the air: Found on Google Earth. The artifact is still visible even after mowing and is now permanent on Google Maps and Google Earth

Floor images do not disappear...

Ground picture Nazca lines, ancient Field Ads — Floor picture Nazca lines, ancient messages

Review: Even today, science still puzzles over the origin of the so-called Nazca lines in Peru. The prevailing scientific opinion assumes that these ground pictures were created about 600 years before Christ. By human hand. And: Without any possibility of ever being able to view the created work from a distance and from the air. Because drones did not exist back then. Whatever the motives may have been thousands of years ago, art and a sense of nature are deeply anchored in our genes. Creating works of art stands on its own. Conveying values and simply doing something do not raise any questions at the moment of creation. Rather, the questions of meaning arise afterwards!

Why have people always sketched their world and their ideals? What is and was important to them? What remains?
What messages are conveyed to entire generations? Some of these questions arise in today's world as well. So let's start at the very beginning....

Artifact/ground image found on Google Earth and Google Maps.

For those who want to explore for themselves:

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germany, north of munich region

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Google Earth immortalizes field advertising as ground image

This company logo has "immortalized" itself as a ground image on Google Earth. Originally, the logo was seeded with wildflowers. Here: Illustration after sunset

Why people send messages and use nature as a big stage, one can only speculate. That people have always seen nature as their stage is undisputed. But what messages are there in this day and age? And which messages are actually worth investing in nature?

Ground image on Google Earth: At least in this case we can clear up:

Google Earth was certainly never planned. Rather, it was about sowing a logo with a native wildflower mix. We seeded the wildflowers with centimeter precision using our VectorSeed technique. What emerged was the realization that living beings perceive their nature at completely different scales and from completely different perspectives:

1. man - let her / him, for example, 1.70 tall and wander along the wildflower logo. Completely unexpected and for many the very first time in life, the fruity scent of the wildflower field leaves one amazed. Many still claim to have never experienced such intensity of scent in their lives. Many took out the headphone plugs and consciously took a deep breath. 1.70 versus thousands of square meters of buzzing insects and scent-spraying wildflowers... it makes you feel in the middle of it all and very small. It triggers a lot and you start thinking. From a human's point of view, the sown branding is little more than a few huge curves. You can only guess at it and you're right in the middle of it.

2. the bee: Here it can fly. It is only one centimeter big and yet it flies here on several hectares. In its perspective, there is no wildflower logo, but millions of unsprayed flowers and many other insects such as butterflies and: Simply great cinema, life as bees imagine it.

Ground picture with blue phacelia and wildflower mixture

The field advertising was accompanied with beehives from the beekeeper — Field advertising with beehives

Our field promotion with wildflowers has promoted biodiversity and species quadlfat — Insects come back

3. the satellite, the plane, the drone, the universe: you can document a real nature sponsorship from far above. Here someone is not greenwashing, but doing good. Seen from a distance, he/she "signs" for it with his/her logo.

Field advertising in winter — Field advertising as a ground image can still be visible even in winter with snow, as here in the approach path of an airport

It was only a matter of time before such a commitment would be immortalized for all time on Google Maps. In any case, VR-Bank Dachau was the first to immortalize itself on Google with its commitment to nature and is thus likely to make history.

Field Ads VR Bank — Winter: The ground image is permanently visible on Google Earth, even though it is no longer there!

And that was it: field advertising with wildflowers

Vierkirchen - Dachau - Germany: Ground picture immortalized on Google Maps

Use the Google Maps links to find the artifacts of the ground image.

https://goo.gl/maps/RjSrpRECWvZXtuLv7

https://goo.gl/maps/z8zqtHVBm3g5TCEVA

Also found on Google Earth:

This ground picture with "GEOXIP" written on it is also still visible on Google Earth and Google Maps, although it has long since been mowed down.

GEOXIP makes ground images

True sustainability is the opportunity and benchmark

Greenwashing has not scored points for a long time. Advertising cultivation with native wildflowers is spectacular, quiet and honest at the same time. Because it's about nature. About biodiversity: BIO diversity "first". Companies enter into a nature sponsorship and promote the environment. In return they get "many bees", real and honest storytelling and: If chance has it: Google Maps forever.

A contribution by Christian Seebauer