Place Spotting― Try to solve this Google map quiz. In the upper part of the page you see a satellite picture. Drag and zoom the map in the lower part of the page until it shows the same location as the upper map. Here's how. posted by netbros (32 comments total)
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I assume that my picture was not meant to have the name of the city in the bottom right corner of it..... made it much easier though! posted by kjs4 at 10:43 PM on August 16, 2008
Love this. Thanks netbros! Fun! posted by nickyskye at 10:57 PM on August 16, 2008
Fun, but did not work in FF3 on a PC for me. Worked fine in IE. (I'll go take a shower now.) posted by maxwelton at 11:10 PM on August 16, 2008
This is really hard to get into if you don't spot something familiar right away. Here's an easier one that I did. posted by kyleg at 11:16 PM on August 16, 2008
funny thing I had noticed before that trying to find where you were on a random google map was a pretty fun activity. kudos to the peeps for the execution posted by yort at 1:51 AM on August 17, 2008
Am I the only one who thinks this is a great idea, poorly executed? posted by alby at 3:11 AM on August 17, 2008
Alby, I don't know about poorly, but it could probably be better.
(Also, if your referrers are disabled, you can't see the top map. I am generally incompetent.) posted by maxwelton at 4:26 AM on August 17, 2008
Am I the only one who thinks this is a great idea, poorly executed?
Could you expand on why you think it's poorly executed? I don't see any obvious problems, and it's a lot of fun. posted by languagehat at 7:05 AM on August 17, 2008
"Message from the craetor of this quiz:"
Fun, though. Thanks! posted by graventy at 7:31 AM on August 17, 2008
It can't just be me who think's it more fun making these maps than solving them, right?
I have a nasty feeling I'll be doing this for months. It's annoying that they don't let you log in and give you some degree of ownership over your maps. Nevermind... posted by twine42 at 4:35 PM on August 17, 2008
Hopefully the craetor of the site is reading this thread and might consider some of the enhancement requests. posted by netbros at 4:56 PM on August 17, 2008
Yes, being able to "take ownership" a little would be a big help, also, to access some way of figuring out the more obscure ones! posted by Rumple at 6:17 PM on August 18, 2008
Hi everybody
@netbros / twine42: Yes I am the creator of the game and I read this thread. Thanks for all your positive feedback it definitely encourages me to improve the site. Most of your suggestions are really good ideas and I will try to include some of them in the next version. But placeSpotting is for me "only" a hobby and so it may take some time... Sorry!
I hope you go on using my site and it would be cool if you tell your friends. For a non-professional site as placeSpotting.com is, it is not that easy to get new users. posted by mafussen at 10:00 PM on August 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
mafussen : Welcome to Mefi!
The big one for me would be letting people log in so that they can track the puzzles they've created and how well they've done in answering other people's puzzles.
After that, it would be cool to be able to choose the language of hints without going through the search page - a drop down on the front page, for example.
I'm already telling people about the site as I find it strangely addictive! :) posted by twine42 at 1:02 AM on August 19, 2008
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posted by Rumple at 10:23 PM on August 16, 2008