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Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by boulder_bum, Jun 3, 2007.

  1. bestmapman

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 10 2007, 05:06 PM) [snapback]510241[/snapback]</div>
    The image is very dark can you give us a zoomed in look?
     
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    That's gotta be a lighthouse, that tiny white square at the bottom edge of the cape. But I'm not enough up on famous lighthouses to know which one - or if it's the lighthouse we should be paying attention to.

    Just what is casting that enormous shadow anyway? Is that a clue, Evan?

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    not a clue, not a shadow, that's just a different contrast with the satellite imagery.

    This is a significant geopolitical point.
     
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    Oh for petes sake, it's right where my first guess thought it might be, but I didn't go look there because I didn't recognize it! It's the southern tip of Spain - Gateway to the Mediterranean Sea. Cheez! Specifically, it's the Isla de Tarifa o de las Palomas.

    OK, if I don't get an image up by 3:15PM Pacific time (12 minutes from now) it's an open field. But gimme that 12 minutes first.

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    Whew! That was close timing!

    This should be a gimme. Considering how many entries are in this game, I'm amazed that this is this place's first appearance.

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 10 2007, 06:12 PM) [snapback]510279[/snapback]</div>
    Rock of Gibraltor

    That one had crossed my mind too, just never followed through with it.

    This one should be a gimme too.....

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    Maybe not so easy. Not sure how many employees work here, but there's no jobs. Maybe for someone trying to get through the fence?
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Martin Gundel @ Sep 10 2007, 09:47 PM) [snapback]510402[/snapback]</div>
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&...p;z=18&om=1
    Microsoft HQ

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Sep 10 2007, 10:39 PM) [snapback]510475[/snapback]</div>
    Not any more, they've all been outsourced! :lol: Ellis Island, New York Harbor

    This place has been mentioned in this game earlier, by name, but never put up as an entry - until now. Well, the resolution is a tad discouraging. Anyway, the place's name is precisely the opposite of what you'd think it should be named - but only from a landlubber's perspective.

    The arrow is pointing at what makes this place significant - and no, the resolution is irrelevant

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    This should help a little ---

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 11 2007, 11:07 AM) [snapback]510589[/snapback]</div>
    West Quoddy Head, ME
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=13&om=1

    somebody else post one, and I'll take a turn later... I can't get my work computer to cooperate!
     
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    Just to point out that the significance of West Quoddy Head is not that the lighthouse looks like a candycane, or that there's even a lighthouse there, but that it is the easternmost point of the 48 states, named "West .... "

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 11 2007, 02:19 PM) [snapback]510729[/snapback]</div>
    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.815,-66.9...c=addr&om=1
    West Quoddy Head

    No need for folks on PC to visit here.
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Sep 11 2007, 03:14 PM) [snapback]510765[/snapback]</div>
    Meaning a lot of PCers are already full of it
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Sep 11 2007, 05:56 PM) [snapback]510843[/snapback]</div>
    Too many clues: Blarney Castle home of the Blarney stone. http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=51.9...p;z=18&om=1

    Let me find something.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Sep 11 2007, 06:38 PM) [snapback]510870[/snapback]</div>

    Let's go back to the movie theme idea. My wife suggested this one, here is a filming location.

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    Well, its not the E T House. Thought I had it.
     
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    It's not "American Beauty" or "Crash" either.

    Given the immense quantity of movies featuring prosaic suburban neighborhoods, we're gonna need a bit more to go on, I think.

    Thriller or comedy? Recent or Chaplin? Blockbuster or Bomb?

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    It's not "American Beauty" or "Crash" either.

    Given the immense quantity of movies featuring prosaic suburban neighborhoods, we're gonna need a bit more to go on, I think.

    Thriller or comedy? Recent or Chaplin? Blockbuster or Bomb?

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 11 2007, 09:14 PM) [snapback]510942[/snapback]</div>
    Fair enough. Let's see if I can make it not too obvious.

    Try this for a clue:

    Ultimately there should be one more movie sequel than there were in the Rocky series.