Google Earth Odd Airfields

[Maoraigh1]

Looking at Google Earth, I noticed a number of airfield symbols in strange places. When clicked on, they have names similar to real, accurately marked airfields. Dalcross on the Black Isle, Connel near Lochgilphead, a second Broadford in the middle of Skye, and a second Dornoch north of the town.
Is this just in the north of Scotland?

[aerobelly]

It's in the US too. I recently found that Monmouth Airport, site of my first solo, had shifted to the car park of a church in a nearby seaside resort.

The real place is now Monmouth Executive Airport, but in GE the tiddlers on the apron look much as they did 35 years ago.


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[mikehallam]

http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww121/mikehallam/CourseampWindTriangleCorrection100313.jpg

[BillieBob]

More likely the odd dyslexic nerd typing in the wrong co-ordinates.

[Sir George Cayley]

Wouldn't that be nred?

SGC

[Maoraigh1]

If you look, these are additional airfields - e.g.Inverness Airport and Oban Airport in the correct place. Dalcross and North Connel, their wartime names, on symbols miles away.

[Whopity]

Anybody can post flags on Google Earth, they need no qualifications or expertise and so long as they don't place anything offensive I doubt anything is ever checked. Just look at the level of literacy on eBay as an example. The majority of people have never had to define things in geographical co-ordinates and in any event a position only defines the corner of a rectangle.