Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 8 2007, 03:39 AM) [snapback]536653[/snapback]</div>

Also those red awnings are an indication of whats to come.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 8 2007, 09:59 AM) [snapback]536781[/snapback]</div>

Thought that looked like LA ---

Kodak Theater Hollywood

Details about its being permanent site for the Academy Awards.

Great pick, Mojo!

Field is open --- anybody got a good movie location to put up?

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 8 2007, 03:12 PM) [snapback]536835[/snapback]</div>

Thats also Graumans Chinese Theater next door.
I thought someone would recognize the line of dots on the sidewalk as stars.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 8 2007, 04:21 PM) [snapback]536883[/snapback]</div>

I thought that was a marking for a bike lane or something. Didn't look like a sidewalk to me, and I didn't recognize that type of marking, so thought it might be foreign, although the cars and buildings looked American.
No palm trees or anything to mark it as a southern climate, I was way off.

 

I think it's still open

Here is a place

[attachmentid=12383]

Was in recent news (in the past 1-2 weeks)

 

This has got to be where one of the fires in S. Cal. started. Which one that is the question.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 8 2007, 05:44 PM) [snapback]537021[/snapback]</div>

Or it's the epicenter of the 5.6 earthquake on the Calaveras fault - but one of the fire origins would certainly be more widely known.

Aha - it's the Earthquake epicenter

--- unless something else happened in these trees two weeks ago, like a murder, but I'm pretty sure it's the earthquake epicenter.

I'll leave it open until I can confirm it or someone else does.

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 8 2007, 08:16 PM) [snapback]537067[/snapback]</div>

Yes! You are correct. It is the epicenter of the recent 5.6 Northern California earthquake.

I had been wanting to post that one for a while. I'm not good at finding places so I usually wait for the map to be left "open".

I guess it's open for anyone unless airportkid wanted to post one.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(orionll @ Nov 8 2007, 08:03 PM) [snapback]537080[/snapback]</div>

I leave the field wide open ----

Good pick, by the way! - It's a new category!!

MB

 

You guys won't mind if I jump in here I hope - found something that hasn't shown up yet.

Fish have pissed in the harvest from these fields, but no one seems to mind ---

[attachmentid=12392]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 8 2007, 11:44 PM) [snapback]537103[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=U...043602&z=15
I searched "red ponds" and a picture of SF Bay salt ponds came up.

 

Weve all heard references to this place.[attachmentid=12394]

 

Check Point Charlie Berlin, Germany

I'll post in a moment.

 

Here you go

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 9 2007, 05:18 AM) [snapback]537199[/snapback]</div>

It's not a bombed out bridge - no roadway approaches & the shadows are too uniform. So it's a flow control system. But Googling flow control, flood control, crest gates, etc. doesn't do much but show a planet full of them in rivers everywhere, so what is it about this one that gives it prominence? That's just me talking out loud, not demanding a clue, by the way. Perhaps just knowing IF this one is special in some way would help without necessarily knowing WHAT makes it special?

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 9 2007, 08:18 AM) [snapback]537199[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=15&om=1
Thames Flood Barrier ,I found it because those London shadows looked familiar.

I'll leave it open

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Nov 9 2007, 01:52 PM) [snapback]537371[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.441667,-8...p;z=17&om=1
Point State Park Fountain Pittsburgh

Another fountain[attachmentid=12411]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 10 2007, 02:10 AM) [snapback]537635[/snapback]</div>

Started in the late 19th century, renovated in the mid 20th century and has since run like clockwork.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 10 2007, 08:33 PM) [snapback]537833[/snapback]</div>

The bright blue water appears tropical . It would be appropriate if the color were more neutral.