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GamingFox [PersonRank 2]

Friday, May 26, 2006
18 years ago6,659 views

Funny... In one of the questions, they showed me a pic of the middle of the ocean then asked me where is it...

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

>they showed me a pic of the middle of the ocean

same here I missed by 1584 miles.

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

my closest is now 119 miles

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

cool game :)

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

my closest is 144 miles

ShellehS [PersonRank 5]

18 years ago #

Missed by 167 miles. Way to go!

cant b closer....

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

my closest is 34 miles :) yesssss

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

just got a 62 mile one straight after :)

Andreas [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

74 miles. Though I'm probably disqualified since I created the quiz :).

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

45 miles, if you get a bit of sea and land it's acutally quite easy

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

21 miles! ok, i'll stop for a bit. try and beat that. Post a screen shot if you can.
It's a great game Andreas. Well done. I've got a screenshot of my 21 miles one if anyone wants to see it.

Andreas [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

Wow, that will be hard to beat. I guess the resolution of the world map is about 20 miles per pixel – it looks like you hit the exact position!

Elias KAI [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Well done Andreas, great tool that will get great incoming links.

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

I've just got one that says "sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom"

How am I ment to do that?

Andreas [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

Uhh ... you could guess which areas of the world have the worst satellite coverage :) ?

Initially the satellite image was shown at an even higher zoom level but the no-imagery-message appeared way too often. After zooming out a bit I thought it was gone for good. Apparently there are still some areas without coverage, event at the current zoom level.

Elias KAI [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Missed by 63 miles. Way to go!

iZeitgeist [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Okay, we're changing the rules of the game,

Try this time to get as far as you can get from the point.

Got 11487 miles, anyone wants to compete ?... ;-p

http://bennis.googlepages.com/gmapsquiz.jpg

Andreas [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

12268 miles :-)

http://www.mindpicnic.com/media/img/user/andreasen-47673-maps-quiz-12268.jpg

Ramibotros [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

wow! the upper map is actually dragable :D .. didn't know that.

iZeitgeist [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Andreas,

Your answer doesn't count ;-)

/pd [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

I dont like this game.. its very additive... I hate you Andreas!!!

:)-

Dart [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

I can't get it to work now... it always loads saying "we don't have imagery at this zoom level..." Did Google get tired of the indirect traffic? Anyone else have this issue?

My addiction is unquenched!

phil [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

Suggestion: Why not make the cursor a small rectangle (the same proportions as the view window) so you can position it on the map in exctly the same place as the view. It could be possible then to get some stunning accuracy. At the moment I am not sure which part of the little hand is the actual selection point.

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