The Long Overdue Scavenger Hunt wrapped up a few minutes ago, and we have a tie for first place! Congratulations to adrbr and mlc1us for tying for first place:

Final Standings:

• 1. adrbr - 49 points
• 1. mlc1us - 49 points
• 3. giove - 43 points
• 4. milwhcky - 42 points
• 5. Trooper111 - 40 points
• 6. neotrix - 27 points
• 7. mikeb9991 - 19 points
• 8. cmueth - 16 points
• 9. Effi - 12 points
• 10. djhobby - 10 points
• 11. DonMartini - 8 points
• 11. Rene73 - 8 points
• 13. Straylight - 1 points
• 13. dda - 1 points

Here are my two favorite submissions from the winners:


Congratulations and thanks go out to all of the contenders! 216 maps were submitted for this hunt, with many great finds.

We really love doing these hunts, so we will be trying to hold a new one about once a month.

What did you all think of the hunt? Anything we can do to make it easier? More fun? Let us know!



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The Long Overdue Scavenger Hunt still underway and there are still 5 days left. We have 14 competitors submitting over 160 maps already!

Some of my favorite submissions so far:


There's still a bunch of time, with Trooper111, milwhcky and mlc1us wrestling for the lead.

Haven't done a VGT scavenger hunt before? It's simple and a whole heck of a lot of fun. To participate, you simply submit maps as normal, then select the category you are submitting to. Once a moderator approves your map, you automatically get points for that category!

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Step 1: Hire a lawyer and threaten to sue us.
Step 2: ??
Step 3: Profit!

Just kidding!

We have this detailed on the site policies page as well, but if your private property is listed on the website and you wish to have it removed, simply contact the admins and we will scrub all personal information from the post -- the location, city, and link to the Google/Live maps page. All that will remain is the cached images from the mapping sites (since that is publicly available).

We would prefer you not send us a threatening cease and desist, demanding that we remove a certain New York "flying" football team's head coach's name because we're infringing upon his rights of publicity (!?) and threatening legal action if we do not. It's quite unnecessary. A simply "would you please" works just as good as threatening to take us to court.

Thanks.

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MS has some new BEV Imagery. No official notice yet, but below is the list of what I have found so far:

Canada:
Abbotsford
Airdrie
Brampton
Calgary
Chilliwack
Coquitlam
Edmonton
Langford
Langley
Mississauga
New Westminster
North Vancouver
Oshawa
Pickering
Port Moody
Richmond
Sainte-Thérèse
Saint-Eustache
Saint-Lambert
Surrey
Toronto
Vancouver
Varennes
Vaudreuil-Dorion
Windsor

USA:
Russellville, AL
Longmont, CO
Pueblo, CO
Pueblo West, CO
Elfers, FL
Hudson, FL
Jasmine Estates, FL
Land O' Lakes, FL
New Port Richey, FL
Punta Gorda, FL
Spring Hill, FL
Conyers, GA
Dallas, GA
East Point, GA
Fayetteville, GA
Gainesville, GA
Griffin, GA
Monroe, GA
Peachtree City, GA
Stockbridge, GA
Cedar Falls, IA
Coralville, IA
Iowa City, IA
Sioux City, IA
Waterloo, IA
Charleston, MS
Cleveland, MS
Corinth, MS
North Tunica, MS
Senatobia, MS
Water Valley, MS
Greenville, NC
Hope Mills, NC
Concord, NH
North Sioux City, SD
Rapid City, SD
Sioux Falls, SD
Eau Claire, WI

Europe
Bottrop, DE
Dorsten, DE
Duisburg, DE
Düren, DE
Gladbeck, DE
Krefeld, DE
Moers, DE
Remscheid, DE
Solingen, DE
Willich, DE
Wuppertal, DE
Iráklion, GR
Kaválla, GR
Khaniá, GR
Lárisa, GR
Patras, GR
Volos, GR
Bray, IE
Dublin, IE
Swords, IE
Amstelveen, NL
Den Helder, NL
Hoofddorp, NL
Zaanstad, NL
Aberdeen, UK
Dundee, UK
Edinburgh, UK
Glasgow, UK
Liverpool, UK

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What a better name for this scavenger hunt than 'Long Overdue'? Maybe 'Dropped the Ball'? Maybe 'What the heck were you guys waiting for?'. Sorry! Back by popular demand, 8 months since the last one, we are finally hosting another scavenger hunt.

This is a medium-length hunt - 60 points total - and will be held for two weeks.

Contenders, start your submissions! Good luck! View all the details on the Scavenger Hunt page.

(thanks to all of the moderators for coming up with this list!)

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We will be having a new scavenger hunt starting this Wednesday 2008-04-23 at noon EST. Nothing huge, but we're long due for a new one!

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Hot on the heels of Microsoft's latest Virtual Earth updates, Yahoo! Maps posted the largest update to their imagery since inception. They claim new imagery both in breadth (with "freshness, color and clarity") of many parts of the US, as well as two new potential zoom levels for aerial and satellite imagery around the US.

Read more at the Yahoo! Local Blog



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The Live Maps (Virtual Earth) Blog has a huge post detailing all of the latest updates released to Live Maps today. There are some great new features! Instead of repeating their post, I'll let you read the details directly, but one thing I'm excited about is being able to export my collections to GeoRSS/KML/GPX. I'm just about to take a cross-country road-trip, and I have a collection of all the places we're visiting on the way. Now I can export our stops to my GPS device.

Besides collection exporting, updates include higher detail 3D cities, street labels for Birds Eye imagery (that must've been hard to get right), MapCruncher integration, enhanced 'geoweb' exploring, neighborhood RSS subscriptions of geoweb content, enhanced directions and traffic information and more.



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Via Google LatLong Blog:

* Albuquerque, NM
* Anchorage, AK
* Austin, TX
* Cleveland, OH
* Fairbanks, AK
* Little Rock, AR
* Madison, WI
* Nashville, TN
* Rockford, IL
* Richmond, VA
* Spokane, WA
* St. Petersburg, FL
* Tampa, FL
* Yosemite National Park, CA

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Chris Pendleton's Virtual Earth Blog announces a 42.85 TB imagery update for Virtual Earth.

Orthos Updates
USA: Las Vegas, Denver, Phoenix, San Luis Obispo
Austria: Vienna, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Klagenfurt
Switzerland: Bern, Basel, Zurich, Geneva
United Kingdom: Norwich, Ipswich, Cambridge, Hereford, Ludlow/Diddlebury Region, South Coventry, Bury St. Edmonds
India: Mysore, Ranchi, Mangalore, Lucknow, Guwahati, Amritsar, Surat, Taj Mahal, Jamshedpur, Koshikode
China: Fuzhou, Baotou, Macao, Wuhu, Xuxhou, Taipei

Obliques (Bird's Eye)
North America:
AL: Pickens Co, Cullman Co, Blount Co
AR: Sebastian Co
CO: Jefferson Co
FL: Hendry Co, Milton Metro, Orange Co
GA: Atlanta Metro
IL: McHenry Co, Peoria Co, McLean Co, Du Page Co, Belleville Metro
IN: Monroe Co
IA: Scott Co, Polk Co, Linn Co
MI: Saginaw Co
MN: Washington Co, Dodge Co
MS: Clarke Co, Holmes Co, Issequena Co, Montgommery Co, Yazoo Co, Washington Co, Humphrey's Co, Leflore Co, Sharkey Co, Sunflower Co, Tippah Co, Union Co, Madison Co, Pontotoc Co, Perry Co, Calhoun Co, Desoto Co, Chickasaw Co, Lafayette Co, Copiah Co, Franklin Co, Warren Co, Simpson Co, Pike Co, Marion Co, Lincoln Co, Smith Co, Lawrence Co, Jefferson Co, Jefferson Davis Co, Wilkinson Co, Grenada Co, Jasper Co, Carroll Co, Lauderdale Co, Walthall Co, Tishomingo Co, Claiborne Co, Quitman Co, Panola Co, Scott Co, Adams Co
NM: McKinley Co
NY: Sullivan Co, Steuben Co, Binghamton Metro
OH: Mahoning Co, Madison Co, Pickaway Co, Delaware Co
OR: Lane Co
PA: Lehigh Co
SC: York Co, Beaufort Co
TN: Knoxville Metro, Gibson Metro
TX: Stephenville Metro, Taylor Co, Orange Co, Erath Co, Fort Bend, Coryell Co, Hidalgo Co
VA: Manassas Co, Chesterfield Co
WI: LaCrosse Co

Europe:
Austria: Graz
UK: London, Wigan, Cheddar, Harlow/Sawbridgeworth
France: Lille Tourcoing Roubaix Villeneuve d'Ascq, Charleville, Amiens
Italy: Civitavecchia, Agrigento, Novara, Verona
Portugal: Almada
Norway: Kristiansand
Finland: Vaasa
Spain: Arona
Germany: Detmold, Gütersloch, Nordhorn, Ruhrgebiet Region, Koblenz & Neuwied, Gummersbach, Paderborn
Ireland: Limerick, Carlow, Wexford, Navan, Cork
Netherlands: Tilburg, Helmond

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