Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pewd @ Aug 19 2007, 11:46 AM) [snapback]498711[/snapback]</div>

Thirsty. :lol:
But not if you face into the hurricane and open your mouth. :lol:
Otherwise, you are on
Loggerhead Island in the Dry Tortuga National Park
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...023518&z=16
Sorry, couldn't get a Google Maps satellite image.

NEW IMAGE:
Some people would expect this area to be in California, because of what happens here.
The correct answer is 'where this is' and 'what happens here.'
Of course confirming links would be nice.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Aug 19 2007, 12:51 PM) [snapback]498752[/snapback]</div>

It's the New Madrid Seismic Area, Missouri, a place where severe earthquakes shook everybody up in 1811 and 1812, and will experience another "big one" at some indeterminate time in the future. Anybody taking bets which fault will pop first - the San Andreas or the New Madrid?

Field is open -------------

MB

 

>Loggerhead Island

a few miles further west
map and satellite image are out of sync

 

someone who hasn't had a chance, jump right in

 

I've had a couple of chances already, but if no one else is going...

This place is worth more than it looks like.

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We need a few clues.It looks like it could have a steeple.

 

Not a steeple, though it is an unusually shaped building, and some could be said to worship here.

 

I have no idea, but here're some thoughts:

The small employee parking lot and softball field indicate a small business in terms of headcount, but perhaps international prominence in its market cap. & annual revenue. The right side looks made up to receive visitors (landscaped nicely, more decorative architectural features, borders one of the ponds, and the lot on that side has buses in a parking lot that looks like it's reserved for buses, since they're the only thing in it). The employees' parking lot and entrance is at the less glamorous back of the complex on the left. Big or small, it's famous, in some circles anyway.

But all of that could be true of a thousand small enterprises on the planet (especially in the the worth more than it looks dept).- I think we need a liitle more help.

MB

 

I am thinking it must be something like one of the secure printers for the Euro and/or a storage vault. The building to the south is interesting too. However, my searches have yet to yield the answer.

 

Just a caution, and I don't know if it's the case here, but using Google Earth images in a Googlemaps game can lead to problems if the Googlemaps resolution is poorer than the same area in Google Earth. Not all of us are prepared to search BOTH Google Earth and Googlemaps trying to track these things down. I mention this because a possible candidate building in Ithaca NY is impossible to verify in Googlemaps because the resolution makes all of Ithaca look like a bad accident in a stew kitchen rather than a city.

MB

 

More clues? Well, some of the guesses are right on the money. The 'headcount' is both small and large, in a cryptic-puzzle-clue manner of speaking. It is popular with visitors, but the prominence is more international than is known in most circles.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Aug 20 2007, 08:54 PM) [snapback]499554[/snapback]</div>

I'm under the impression the Ithica images are of the highest quality Google provides.
I was told by a Navy buddy who was from the area that as far as he was concerned, Ithica was a smudge on what would otherwise be a very beautiful area . . . especially considering all the beautiful waterfalls. :lol:

Any chance our current image is of a high end sports car or racing team factory?
"worth more than it looks like"
"some could be said to worship here."

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Aug 21 2007, 12:58 AM) [snapback]499619[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=16&om=1
Royal Canadian Mint Manitoba
Evan ,the "*" symbol is the mints maple leaf logo, good eye.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 21 2007, 12:17 AM) [snapback]499630[/snapback]</div>

I'm sure that's where Carl Showalter buried the suitcase in the snow with $920,000 in it before driving off with $80,000 to his (unexpected) appointment with the wood chipper (Fargo), but which road and which fence out there in the wilderness of the Dakotas is still a matter of guesswork.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 21 2007, 12:17 AM) [snapback]499630[/snapback]</div>

Bonneville Salt Flats

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...c=addr&om=1

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 21 2007, 02:44 AM) [snapback]499632[/snapback]</div>

You are ice cold.Speaking of movies, several were made here.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Aug 21 2007, 03:00 AM) [snapback]499634[/snapback]</div>

Bonneville Speedway specifically ,good job.

 

I'd never heard of this place before visiting it, but I'm sure some world traveler will recognize it. In this picture it is still under construction but it is finished now.