Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 30 2007, 02:17 PM) [snapback]504432[/snapback]</div>

There will be an audit (in that square ) this year.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 30 2007, 02:14 PM) [snapback]504403[/snapback]</div>

Interesting hints famous signatures, movies, audit.

1. From the clues it must be some kind of famous financial institution.

2. From the looks of the facility it must be at a military base, or former military base.

3. Army or Marines not Air Force or Navy because not enough ramp space and maintenance facility for large numbers of aircraft. Just enough space to move aircraft in and out, but not be maintained there. Golf course dead givaway for U. S. Military but could be overseas. Also orderly facility, I mean parrallel streets and railroad.

4. Searched US mints nothing all in cities

Hmmm,

Got it US Gold Depository Fort Knox

I'll post another in a moment

 

Heres one a little closer to home.

I searched the list given by Airport Kid and did not find it on there so I think it is new.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Aug 30 2007, 04:49 PM) [snapback]504527[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.202944,-8...p;z=17&om=1
Churchill Downs

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This is an off topic post.Check out the perspective from which these skyscrapers are viewed.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.202944,-8...p;z=16&om=1

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 30 2007, 12:14 PM) [snapback]504431[/snapback]</div>

:blink: :blink: :blink: :blink: :blink:
Boy, I'm really stupid. And sorry. Apparently the pre-vacation Friday syndrome has arrived early. I think I'll go home before I do any damage......
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 30 2007, 12:14 PM) [snapback]504431[/snapback]</div>

True, dat.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 30 2007, 03:43 PM) [snapback]504552[/snapback]</div>

What's the big surprise? First there was the Great Chicago Fire - now there's the Great Chicago Earthquake! Er --- virtual Earthquake --- :blink:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 30 2007, 03:05 PM) [snapback]504534[/snapback]</div>

That's the other half, so it's not really a repeat --- Horseshoe Falls - The Canadian half of Niagara Falls

Now we've covered the entire waterfall. Did you know Niagara Falls is turned off at night? Check it out.

I'm busy in the kitchen so don't have time to search my own list - the field is WIIIIDE OPEN ----

MB

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 30 2007, 11:18 PM) [snapback]504755[/snapback]</div>

Downtown Houston
--- just like it says at the bottom of your image! :lol:

I've got a landscape primed & ready to go, but I'll defer and let you try again!

MB

 

There have been several occasions where Googlemaps prints the approximate geographic location at the bottom of the screen. When I run Googlemaps, that "caption" never shows up, ever. Where does that "caption" come from and why isn't it consistently either always there, or always absent?

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 31 2007, 08:17 AM) [snapback]504897[/snapback]</div>

One of the cheapest ways for companies like Google to expand their aerial and/or satellite photo library is to get them for free from local government agencies who have already paid to produce them and have them on hand. Naturally, those agencies want to be mentioned in return. I think that you will mostly find this in larger urban areas, where the government tends to be larger, and Google more active in contacting them.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 29 2007, 09:09 PM) [snapback]504094[/snapback]</div>

I hate to mention this, but a guaranteed up-to-date method is to simply search for your proposed target in this thread only, just by scrolling down and clicking on the search feature at the bottom of any page in this thread. It won't pick up hits from other threads. That would save airportkid a lot of work, unless he enjoys doing that...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 31 2007, 02:26 AM) [snapback]504768[/snapback]</div>

Rats!
That crooked building was Enron HQ .
Youre up Mark.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 31 2007, 10:05 AM) [snapback]504978[/snapback]</div>

OK, I'll go.

Considering what happened here, the resolution is frustratingly bad - and split right smack at the place itself. But since the place itself hasn't got anything that distinguishes it much from a plate of anonymous salad, I guess the resolution confusion doesn't matter. This is one of those entries where the picture is almost superfluous, since what's relevant is what happened.

And for that, you'll need a clue: There's poetic justice, and, sometimes, poetry is the only justice.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 31 2007, 12:31 PM) [snapback]505003[/snapback]</div>

Its not the crash sites of UAL 93 or PA 103.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 31 2007, 02:32 PM) [snapback]505149[/snapback]</div>

Those kinds of tragedies would have been unthinkable and impossible when the event in question happened, although it was a tragedy. Winston Churchill, fulfilling his interest as an historian, took time out in 1945 during the <strike>Malta</strike> Yalta conference to personally visit this place because of what happened here.

 

Hmmm, This is interesting post.

The poet clue did not due anything for me. But Churchill visiting Yalta solved it. The 1945 conference in Yalta was in the Crimea peninsula. Historically the British were involved in the Crimean War in the 1850's. Any student of military history would recall the "Charge of the Light Brigade".

Google Link Charge of the Light Brigade

This still didn't satisfy me. What was the poet connection. So I did my homework.

From Wilipedia:

The Charge of the Light Brigade is a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.

The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson's poem, published December 9, 1854 in The Examiner, praises the Brigade, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!", while mourning the appalling futility of the charge: "Not tho' the soldier knew, someone had blunder'd… Charging an army, while all the world wonder'd."

I am going to bed so it is Open for a poster. If no one posts by tomorrow morning I will post again.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Aug 31 2007, 07:42 PM) [snapback]505248[/snapback]</div>

And the most famous (and quoted) lines:

"... Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."

Good sleuthing!

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Aug 31 2007, 09:42 PM) [snapback]505248[/snapback]</div>

You all know this place .

 

411 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas.
Formerly known as the Texas School Book Depository.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...m=1&layer=t
This is almost a replay, as the memorial park a block away was played.

The bottom half of this land mass is unique, why and where is it?
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