Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Sep 8 2007, 02:44 PM) [snapback]509147[/snapback]</div>

That's the correct area. If you zoom in on it, there are some many sand dunes it is amazing. This area is so remote that up to WW2 no country actually claimed it. If you look on old maps, the area is just left blank as to political jurisdiction.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Sep 8 2007, 02:00 PM) [snapback]509152[/snapback]</div>

Sturgeon farm?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Sep 9 2007, 12:12 AM) [snapback]509370[/snapback]</div>

Hmmm, you are at least in the right hemisphere with that comment.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Sep 9 2007, 12:54 AM) [snapback]509389[/snapback]</div>

I figure it is a boat drag strip, but can find any. The larger strip is for the races and the smaller strip for return. It also appears to be some other type of recreational facility. That's as far as a got.

Also the street name is not english.

How about some more clues.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Sep 9 2007, 09:54 AM) [snapback]509494[/snapback]</div>

Boat drag strip is a description that is appropriate although not in the manner you are currently thinking.

After finding out what it is, you will know why Americans are not familiar with it. For some reason, we just didn't go there.

 

I think we need a bit more to go on than a bend in a river somewhere outside the USA. I'll grant there are other clues: The river is used for commerce, commerce lucrative enough it was cost effective to build a lock to cut off the extra mileage going around the bend; the nature of the bend suggests the area is in a plain where rivers meander and form bends like that; the economy of the area must be doing pretty well in that a major roadway is under construction and its new bridge is being built for high speed, at huge expense, crossing the river at an angle rather than at the narrowest part of the channel (which would decrease the bridge expense but put tight turns in the roadway). What affluent area would value high speed road transit to that degree? None of these clues have anything to do with the mystery pond, but there they are.

But they ain't enough!

MB

(on second thought the fact that a lock is required to cut off a small bend like that actually suggests more sloping terrain, not mountainous, but not ironing board flat either).

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 9 2007, 05:40 PM) [snapback]509710[/snapback]</div>

When you realize what it is, you will understand. Believe it or not, it is highly connected with the invasion of Afghanistan!

Now put all of the clues together.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Sep 9 2007, 07:29 PM) [snapback]509745[/snapback]</div>

Let's review the clues so far:

1) Writing on map.

2) Not a seaplane runway.

3) Built at huge trouble and expense.

4) Not a sturgeon farm, but right hemisphere.

5) Boat drag strip but not in the sense I think the poster meant.

6) After finding out what it is, you will know why Americans are not familiar with it. For some reason, we just didn't go there.

7) Believe it or not, it is highly connected with the invasion of Afghanistan!

Should be enough?

 

Alright let's make it easy with two puzzle clues:

George Orwell less 48 months plus Gershwin hit by Janice

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Sep 9 2007, 08:47 PM) [snapback]509801[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=55.791286,37...c=addr&om=1
Games of the XXII Olympiad Canoeing and Rowing Basin², Krylatskoye -

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 9 2007, 09:47 PM) [snapback]509834[/snapback]</div>

Russia is the only place in the region with that high of resolution in the drawn maps . I was searching Naval bases for the past hour.But I never found a map with numbered buildings .
The summer 1980 clue had to be the Russian Olympics.

Ill leave it open.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Sep 9 2007, 09:54 PM) [snapback]509835[/snapback]</div>

Ok heres one[attachmentid=11317]

 

Iraq just north of Kuwait!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...310364&z=12

Let me find something quick.

Whoops, had trouble posting the link and got beat to the draw. Second guess for me, I started in Kuwait! A little quicker than the summer olympics post. (That I didn't know what it was when I initially posted it. )

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 9 2007, 11:41 PM) [snapback]509854[/snapback]</div>

You can take it or someone else can jump in. I need to call it a night.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 10 2007, 02:06 PM) [snapback]510241[/snapback]</div>

Not for me, Doc, I don't recognize it at all. Looks like an old fort or a prison, but where in the world it is I don't have any idea where to begin.

But if you think it is so obvious someone should know it out of hand, perhaps hold off on clues for a bit more - I think we've relaxed the "Hold Off If You Know It" rule so that if no one's jumped on it in the last 12 - 18 hours or so, go ahead and ID it so as to get the game moving again.

MB

(I gotta say, that shadow next to it is intriguing - something massive as a land mass yet dead straight. Is there a Vogon spaceship parked off-frame?)