Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Jun 8 2007, 12:15 PM) [snapback]458206[/snapback]</div>

DOH! never mind!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Jun 8 2007, 02:15 PM) [snapback]458206[/snapback]</div>

Looks like Fiorano Test Track near Maranello, Italy
http://www.fiorano.com/company/fiorano_name.htm

Map Link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=16&om=1

Here's my next one. Hints later this evening, if needed.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 8 2007, 11:50 AM) [snapback]458190[/snapback]</div>

That's a C-5 maneuvering to get a snoutful of high grade kerosene from a KC-135 somewhere above planet earth. I can't identify the location any better than that from the indistinct terrain below. Did you just happen onto that by accident, Kow, wandering Googlemaps at high resolution? Quite a lucky find. Now there's the seed of a new game: how many different airborne aircraft can be found within a specified geographic region, the winners being the one that locates the most, the one who locates the smallest airborne aircraft, the one who locates the largest, and grand prize to the one who locates an airplane about to crash!

I have no idea what causes the ghosts in the image - some artifact of high atmospheric diffraction or something. The ghosts are above the aircraft - perhaps the ghosts are some sort of reverse "shadow" in a high thin translucent cloud layer.

As for the house and what's going on there - no idea. Not even enough to know where to start looking. The truck parked outside is just a happy accident of timing that it was there when the satellite snapped its photo, so I'm not sure the truck is relevant.

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Danny Hamilton @ Jun 8 2007, 12:46 PM) [snapback]458238[/snapback]</div>

That's Daley Plaza in Chicago but I don't know whether that's the John Hancock skyscraper adjacent or some other one.

Here's another easy one until I can find a real stinker for later - this one shouldn't need any clues at all

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Jun 8 2007, 08:48 PM) [snapback]458424[/snapback]</div>

The adjacent skyscraper is the Richard J. Daley Civic Center, featured in "The Blues Brothers".

The John Hancock building can be found here:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41....p;z=18&om=1

 

Taj Mahal



This one's probably too easy so no hints....




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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Jun 8 2007, 06:31 PM) [snapback]458411[/snapback]</div>

Ephesus, The Amphitheatre or Stadium where Paul preached, Acts 19.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=17&om=1

Airportkid, Indeed it is, nice call. The House pic is my old home in Clovis, CA and it's moving day! You can see the ramp sticking out the side of the moving truck parked out front. That was the first week of June, 2002, and my only claim to fame related to Goggle Earth!

Now for the Propellor Heads out there check this link out! You'll freak! :blink: You need to install Goggle Earth to see it!

Here's mine with a little bit different perspective. . .

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Wildkow

p.s. Check out the corn field just to the NW of the refueling jets! LOLOLOLOL!!! :lol:

 

Robincx's marina is still unsolved here's the pic below and a hint since Robincx is AWOL. . .
It's way to easy for me so I passed on answering and I'm leaving it up to you guys.

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Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 9 2007, 12:06 AM) [snapback]458559[/snapback]</div>

Wildkow

p.s. Check out the corn field just to the NW of the refueling jets! LOLOLOLOL!!! :lol:
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First clue. . . Greys hang out near this site.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 9 2007, 03:57 PM) [snapback]458862[/snapback]</div>

Where did everyone go??

Hint: Not made by a metorite and a "Reese Witherspoon" movie will give you a another hint as to the name.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 11 2007, 11:09 AM) [snapback]459618[/snapback]</div>

It may be down to you and me, Kow. Everytime I poke around in here I'm always the only visitor.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 11 2007, 11:09 AM) [snapback]459618[/snapback]</div>

I knew it's a caldera but couldn't find it on the Hawaiian big island and ran out of steam as to other famous caldera sites. Grey bears? Grey birds? Grey wolves? Grey beards? And Reese films are:

Penelope
Just Like Heaven
Walk the Line
Vanity Fair
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Sweet Home Alabama
The Importance of Being Earnest
Legally Blonde
The Trumpet of the Swan
Little Nicky
American Psycho
Best Laid Plans
Election
Cruel Intentions
Pleasantville
Overnight Delivery
Twilight
Fear
Freeway
Jack the Bear
A Far Off Place
Wildflower
The Man in the Moon

If you see any caldera fields in that rack of titles you've got better eyesight than I do.

 

I suspect the images and hints are getting a bit too obscure for the average player, so we lost most of our participants. We had more involvement when the images were fun, but easily identifyable (Statue of Liberty, Space Needle, Arlington Cemetary, Wrigley Field, Washington Monument, Kennedy Space Center, Disney Land, etc).

Most players don't seem to want to spend more than 15 minutes trying to find an image. If they know exactly what it is, they might take the time to find the image in google maps and post it, but otherwise they don't bother, they just have too many other priorities to bother sepnding the time to try and figure it out.

I'm still here and participating, but I haven't got any idea on either of the current two images and don't even know where to start looking.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Danny Hamilton @ Jun 11 2007, 07:34 PM) [snapback]459908[/snapback]</div>

Good point, here's a last hint or two. I hope this does it for both areas still not identified.

Robincx's
1) Es mi punto preferido de las vacaciones.

Mine
1) "Hombre en la luna" (cráter)

2) Gris = extranjero camino (pequeños hombres verdes)

3) The location of this site actually has something to do with fhoP and a "range".

4) If and when you do find it, I hope an "Easy Chair" will be nearby to rest your weary bones.

Extra points if you figure out how each hint is related to the location.

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 12 2007, 06:17 AM) [snapback]460026[/snapback]</div>

It's tough. Not made by a meteorite, and seems to have something to do with "man in the moon", so I was thinking maybe Craters of the Moon National Park in Idaho, but that doesn't look like it. Even allowing for different angles due to the fact this isn't a maps.google image. Doing a search on Man in the Moon gives a million hits, nothing that makes sense to me. A lot of other volcanic craters around, and the other clues aren't helping me narrow it down right now...could even be a man-made crater of some kind

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Jun 12 2007, 04:25 PM) [snapback]460466[/snapback]</div>

Hint number two is your friend and will at least narrow it down to one state. If you get hungry throw a "Pancake" on the "Range" Mmmmmm!

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Jun 12 2007, 06:32 PM) [snapback]460540[/snapback]</div>

Hmmmmmm, well then try these hints, Pancake Range, Crater, Extraterrestrial Highway, "Easy Chair" and don't forget Reese's movie "Hombre en la luna". Good luck.

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 13 2007, 05:58 AM) [snapback]460731[/snapback]</div>

Okay, that makes it easy finally. Lunar Crater in Nevada, Great Basin region.
Thanks for the hints, could be an interesting place to visit:
Description:
http://www.americansouthwest.net/nevada/lu...l_landmark.html
Google image:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=14&om=1

Here's an easy one, this place was a real blast back in the 80's:
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(Yes, I know, the marina in the vacation spot with the mysterious X marks still needs to be solved as well).

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Jun , 07:26 AM)</div>

Mount St. Helens.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&....53627&z=11

A new image is on its way.

This one is from a long way away and a long time ago.
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