Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Clue #1 This is a tourist attraction not in the US

Clue #2 Ciò è in qualche luogo sul vecchio continente

 

Clue #1 This is a tourist attraction not in the US

Clue #2 Ciò è in qualche luogo sul vecchio continente

Clue #3 Look at the shadows of the buildings

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Sep 29 2007, 06:37 PM) [snapback]519256[/snapback]</div>

Excellent pick!!! The Leaning Tower of Pisa! Now why'd it take so long for something so famous to finally get posted here? Or require so many clues?

Ah well, here's the landmark I tried to post earlier but got washed out by the site crash ---

For a natural feature of such prominence, it's amazing how remote and inaccessible it still is (even the satellite won't give it the high resolution eye). This is a new entry, but not a new category.

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I don't know why but it hit me that it had to be Angel Falls. Here is what set me to it.

1) North flowing river, consistent with drainage pattern for Venezuela.

2) Clouds for no apparant reason.

3) Bare ground associated with the clouds.

This just had to be an insulberg. Well the most famous inselberg is the one the Angel Falls comes from.

I am walking out the door so the field is wide open.

 

I'm back home now and I see now one has posted so here is one.

 

Clue #1 It is a cemetery

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Sep 30 2007, 05:56 PM) [snapback]519615[/snapback]</div>

Aha, it's the Normandy Memorial Cemetery, Colleville sur Mer, France as seen in Saving Pvt Ryan.

Wikipedia Details Here.

I'm fresh out of landscapes; although I ordered six boxcar loads of them, they have yet to arrive, so the field is open. Anyone else out there besides the Mapman and me?

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 30 2007, 08:16 PM) [snapback]519652[/snapback]</div>

A Famous Venice Bridge
--- but which one I have to step over to Google to find out ---

Standby

Here it is, the The Bridge of Sighs

Go again, Evan, my basket's empty ---

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 30 2007, 10:33 PM) [snapback]519659[/snapback]</div>

Since its open for so long I'll post one.
This place was a record holder.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 1 2007, 12:19 PM) [snapback]519863[/snapback]</div>

silk route , not Islamic.The yellow push pin is a few millimeters directly below the point of interest.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 1 2007, 01:46 PM) [snapback]519907[/snapback]</div>

dynamite and tank barrages

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 1 2007, 06:31 PM) [snapback]520055[/snapback]</div>

This location was made 1500 years ago.The largest was 180 ft

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 1 2007, 08:03 PM) [snapback]520060[/snapback]</div>

i have no idea yet.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Oct 1 2007, 07:34 PM) [snapback]520071[/snapback]</div>

Maybe the terrain will help.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 1 2007, 12:19 PM) [snapback]519863[/snapback]</div>

The picture doesnt actually show the items that this place is famous for,its a ruin.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 1 2007, 06:15 PM) [snapback]520086[/snapback]</div>

The picture doesn't show the items because they're no longer there; the Taliban idiots destroyed them, the Bhuddist statues at Bamiyan, Afghanistan (and other places).

Ours is a colossal conceit, we humans, that we think because something happens to occupy our country, or our backyard, that we own it; that we can make it subject to our transient whim. It doesn't occur to we of tiny, petty minds that some things transcend the concept of "ownership", that across time and endurance some things belong only to humanity at large. Had the world had the balls and spine it should have, we'd've sent a multi-national envoy to protect those statues by force. Now they are irretrievably lost, while all around men with microscopic brains and even tinier hearts blow each other up and lay further waste to the landscape, not because of what was destroyed, but because we haven't the wit or imagination to even learn how to get along with each other, and because we think a trifling rag of a flag matters more than history.

Shouldn't've picked that one, Mojo - what it reveals about the human race is VERY disappointing - I get upset not so much at what the idiot Taliban wanted to do, but that an idiot world LET them do it.

OK, on to less depressing things ---

Give me a moment to hunt something up.

MB

 

Oh no - the kid's gone off the deep end with another airport!

An airbase, actually. It's a dark and stormy night. The student qualifying for night instrument landings sweats as turbulence jolts the heavy Vulcan he's hand flying down the ILS because the check instructor's disabled the approach coupler and for added misery pulled the breaker on the electric trim. Twenty seconds to decision height and the thick clouds begin to break ahead of the aircraft; the student can see the glow of the approach lights. The instructor looks at his watch and says "Pull up the undercart, kid, and do a missed; the 9:20 to ___________ will be crossing the runway about now."

In the arcanities of figuring right of way, the rule is this: the vehicle with less control has it. Thus, when calculating whether an airplane has the right of way against a train, the train wins. So just where in the wide world is this airport with live train tracks crossing a live runway?

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Are you sure the locomotive engineer doesn't need clearance from the airport control tower? And methinks there's more than one place like this. Say, Londonderry and Peshawar? If it's a Vulcan landing, I'm thinking it's not Peshawar on the Khyber Pass.

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Sorry to spoil your fun so quickly. You gotta stay away from this railway stuff...Go ahead with another one. I'm going to bed early for a change. And I don't mean early in the morning.