Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Jun 13 2007, 10:36 AM) [snapback]460878[/snapback]</div>

Sorry, the Parthenon has already been guessed (by Wildkow in post 21). Need a new image.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Jun , 09:39 AM)</div>

Dang, I forgot! Sorry! ok, new one on its way...

I was born in this state capitol. Glad I don't live there anymore. It gets cold!
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Boulder Bum @ Jun , 10:51 AM)</div>

Well I was born in the city, but not in the capitol building.

Area 51
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=12&om=0

 

Here's the next one.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Jun , 12:33 PM)</div>

Christ of the Ozarks
Even after identifying it, it was still hard to find.

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

Looking for a new target...

 

This airport looks very different today. [attachmentid=8829]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Jun 13 2007, 03:40 PM) [snapback]461177[/snapback]</div>

My first successful landing in MS Flight Simulator took place at this airport. That would be Meigs Airport on Northerly Island, Lake Michigan, right next door to Chicago.


http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...m=1&layer=t

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Distributed Computer programs got their start here.

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 13 2007, 06:12 PM) [snapback]461264[/snapback]</div>

Why Mayor Daley isn't in jail for felony destruction of property and public endangerment for what he did to that runway speaks volumes about power and how powerless the law is against the powerful.

I think if we could identify the sycophant gene and eradicate it from the human race with strong pesticide it would make an enormous improvement - but I digress from the map game at hand. I just had to give a public shake of the head at Daley's crime.

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Jun 13 2007, 07:26 AM) [snapback]460821[/snapback]</div>

Whew, thank you I was starting to feel bad!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Jun , 06:23 PM)</div>

Agreed! :angry:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 13 2007, 06:12 PM) [snapback]461264[/snapback]</div>

That would be the Arecibo Observatory
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. . . but I don't think that was the start of Distributed Computing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distr...puting_projects

NEW IMAGE:
no hints yet.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jun , 07:57 PM)</div>

No wonder I couldn't find anything in Palo Alto to match that image.

 

(I have no idea how you determined that was Arecibo - good sleuthing!)
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jun 13 2007, 09:57 PM) [snapback]461308[/snapback]</div>

Hah! - that's Mount Rushmore, zoomed in, and rotated 90'. When I leaned back from the computer, it looked like at least one head. Unfortunately, there was a cloud over that part when they took the picture.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43....p;z=18&om=1

Here's a peaceful place, even farther north:
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I'm not expecting anybody to find this spot, just one of a thousand, but I thought it was too cool not to share: crop circles of a terrestrial kind, making an art-deco appearance:
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Jun 13 2007, 09:45 PM) [snapback]461384[/snapback]</div>

That sooooo looks like Pashimeroi Valley, Idaho.
So do I get to claim the non-credit? :lol:
It was kind of hard to find using Google Earth - the images were taken at different times.
Just look at the roads and the mountains on the right for confirmation. Crops change.
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Believe it or not, I'd been there!
For those who don't know, the circles are done for watering purposes.
The linked picture below - which is of the Pashimeroi Valley - shows one of the watering rigs (especially if you enlarge it) . . . they pivot around the center.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1395050

I'm still trying to figure out the image which is in play. :blink:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jun 14 2007, 12:43 AM) [snapback]461432[/snapback]</div>

Dang! SPE nice job! You should get double credits for that.

To the right side of the photo there is a runway that runs almost directly North-South, the headings should be 10/28. I looked for a bit but didn't find it. He did mention that it was a peaceful place and ND has a Peace Garden but as far as I can tell it's unrelated.

Wildkow