Find The Landmark

August 1, 2005 8:28 AM

Find the Landmark: A Google Maps Game
posted by Vidiot (9 comments total)

How do you specify that you've found it?
posted by zeoslap at 8:39 AM on August 1, 2005

Click on it. But it's a wee bit clunky.
posted by Vidiot at 8:42 AM on August 1, 2005

Woohoo! I got the best time for LAX.
posted by devbrain at 9:07 AM on August 1, 2005

Damn, some of the high scores are crazy-fast. Cool find.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 9:23 AM on August 1, 2005

If you go back and then forward you get the same place but with the clock back to zero so you can whittle you time down.
posted by biffa at 9:42 AM on August 1, 2005

More google map games for you.
posted by Moral Animal at 9:51 AM on August 1, 2005

What am I missing? How it is possible to find, say, "Birthplace of Mary Shelley" in 1.82 seconds?

Or has this simply been hacked already?
posted by dmd at 2:47 PM on August 1, 2005

I was looking for this just the other day and I assumed that I'd seen it first on MeFi but wasn't able to pull it up with a search. Now dang it, where did I find it originally?? But thanks, no less.
posted by FlamingBore at 9:11 PM on August 1, 2005

Don't tell my girlfriend, but I've got the record for Boston Commons (at the moment). It could upset the balance of my "New York >> Boston" relationship with her. (Either that, or she'll go, "awww... you learned Boston geography for me")
posted by Eideteker at 1:45 PM on August 8, 2005