Chelyabinsk: Giant Smiley on Google Maps

Toramir writes: "Citizens of the russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite QuickBird would cross above their city. QuickBird takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps. They created a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape.

And it worked. The image is on Google Maps. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea, that an entire town works hard to get it's 15 minutes of fame on Google Maps.

The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event."