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Started by Hans van der Maarel , May 28 2006 01:05 PM

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 01:05 PM

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Fun game with Google Maps: you get shown a satellite image and have to point at the corresponding location on a map. Very doable for this crowd, unless they show you an all-ocean tile...

http://www.mindpicnic.com/maps-quiz/

So... who can beat my record of 47 miles? :rolleyes:
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Posted 28 May 2006 - 04:38 PM

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 04:45 PM

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 05:49 PM

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15, try beating that one, haha. Guess I was a bit lucky.

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 06:01 PM

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Magnus wins.

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Posted 29 May 2006 - 01:45 PM

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OK, that's addictive. Instant gratification for those of us who think we're good at this game.
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Posted 29 May 2006 - 09:38 PM

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11 miles! Ha!
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Posted 30 May 2006 - 09:06 AM

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11 miles! Ha!
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Wow all your scores are amazing! I finally got one of the easily recognizable California coast and I was still 181 miles off. If I remember, I'll try to figure out how many miles each pixel on the world map represents. Unless someone already knows?
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Posted 30 May 2006 - 08:01 PM

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Damn! 11 miles?

I have been playing a bit (it is a very addictive game - like crack for geographers...) and the closest i can get is 21 miles.
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I'll try just one more time... B)

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Posted 30 May 2006 - 11:14 PM

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Fun game with Google Maps: you get shown a satellite image and have to point at the corresponding location on a map. Very doable for this crowd, unless they show you an all-ocean tile...

http://www.mindpicnic.com/maps-quiz/

So... who can beat my record of 47 miles?  :rolleyes:

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Haha, got an all ocean tile and got 218 miles, not too bad.

Anything under 40 miles has gotta be luck, even if I know exactly where it is, I can't get right on. Need a larger world map

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Posted 31 May 2006 - 03:30 AM

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15 is the closest I got so far.

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Posted 31 May 2006 - 08:31 AM

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Getting close is mostly luck as trying to determine the center point on the sample image and then hitting it on that tiny map is almost impossible. The difference between a few hundred miles and 11 is more about you click accuracy than geographic knowledge.
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