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It's a little south of the marker on the map in the article, but it is still on Google Maps.

It's been blurred out now (http://imgur.com/1GcROpY).

Also, the new maps interface is very unintuitive. I remember there used to be an option to create a shortlink to an exact coordinate: I can't figure out where that is now. There is a 'Save' button, but I think that just saves it to my local machine. How do I share a location?

that blurry square isn't it, if you travel south for about half a block, you'll see a police car, follow that road forward a bit, and you can see a body, and north of that in the field there is a group of law enforcement.

slightly gruesome screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bnyNZq5.png

Very sad. The world is a very big place though, this kind of stuff is bound to come up. I do hope the Maps folks take some action.

Right click (option click on Mac?) and select 'What's here'. That gives you exact coordinates under the green arrow, with nearest street address under the pink map pin. In this case it's 37.951592,-122.36045. That may be a 14 year-old boy lying there dead and if true it is a terribly sad thing and I hope it is at least blurred out soon.

Opened these coordinates in 2 browsers, one shows old low res imagery with no body, one shows newer high res imagery with body. My guess/hope is that the older low res imagery is being pushed out and just isn't on all servers yet.

I think the main thing I got out of this story is that Rob Enderle is an ass.

You can just copy and paste the URL to share your current view (should include any markers on the map as well).

Okay, ya I just found it as well. It's actually more South-East of the marker, and you have to look for the police car to locate it.

I don't think this is an unreasonable request to remove this map tile, it's a pretty clear image of a dead with cops standing nearby.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Duboce+Ave+%26+Cherry+St,+Ric...

That's it? What a load of fuss over nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

Imagine that body was somebody that you loved.

I can empathize, but I would probably ask Google to remove it before going to the news.

Yeah, that part doesn't make sense to me either. Buuut, I'm not in the father's position, so I'll try to reserve some judgement.

They must have changed it, because I'm not seeing it.

I think you need to be using the 45 deg imagery.

And if you rotate the view point you get 4 different snapshots in time.

More police activity. Police activity but no body. And then back to as it was. No activity, no body.

I would post a link, but I have no idea how to do it with the new Google Maps Beta. Much like everything else they've done recently, they've hidden all the functionality with absolutely no benefit, and exposed utterly useless functionality.

They've "fixed" it so that you just copy and paste the URL to share whatever you're seeing in the map. Yes, in some ways, it's not obvious, but mainly because the "obvious" way of sharing the URL didn't work before.

Next to the tracks: http://i.imgur.com/6XFwOq8.jpg

Seems like google just updated the map tiles. I saw it 10 minutes ago but it was gone when I refreshed the page.

http://i.imgur.com/VXCTQ17.png

It appears when you use the 45 degree angle option but not the top down satellite option.

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