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Google Earth HacksScavenger Hunts
Scavenger hunts are contests to see who can find the most maps in a list of categories. 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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Past Hunt: Long Overdue Scavenger Hunt
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.
Good luck!
The (n) numbers in the categories correspond to the notes below:
(1) With airliners.net documentation
(2) With documentation in More Info link
(3) The purpose of this one is not to just show a building in which R&D is done. We're looking for interesting infrastructure, test equipment, prototypes, testbeds, etc. We want to see the equipment actually used in the tests not just the structures that contain them.
(4) Not a static display but one that is under development
This hunt runs from 2008-04-23 11:00:00 until 2008-05-07 11:00:00 (CST timezone).
Categories:
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1 Point
- Advertising - 'Grand Opening' sign (StreetView) (5 submissions)
- Airliner with an identifiable special livery/paint scheme (NOTE 1) (8 submissions)
- Airplane on static display - Non military (NOTE 1) (5 submissions)
- Archaeological site with visible ruins - Greek (NOTE 2) (6 submissions)
- Archaeological site with visible ruins - Roman (NOTE 2) (6 submissions)
- Castle (NOTE 2) (8 submissions)
- Circus (8 submissions)
- Jet ski (5 submissions)
- Lighthouse (NOTE 2) (8 submissions)
- Observatory (NOTE 2) (8 submissions)
- Professional sporting event in progress (3 submissions)
- Scientific or R&D test facilities (NOTE 3) (4 submissions)
- Sunbather - Female (StreetView) (7 submissions)
- Sunbather - Male (StreetView) (5 submissions)
- Surfer on board (6 submissions)
- Surfer on board (StreetView) (7 submissions)
- Theme Park (NOTE 2) (8 submissions)
- University (NOTE 2) (11 submissions)
- Visible remains of a crashed airplane (not just random airplane parts) (NOTE 2) (5 submissions)
- Water park (NOTE 2) (9 submissions)
- Airplane - Current prototype (NOTES 2 & 4) (3 submissions)
- Sea - Cruise ship identifiable by name (NOTE 2) (7 submissions)
- Sea - Ferry identifiable by name (NOTE 2) (7 submissions)
- Sea - Hovercraft (either in port or at sea) (7 submissions)
- Sea - Military Ship identifiable by name (NOTE 2) (6 submissions)
- Airplane in Flight - Fixed wing glider (not a parasail) (9 submissions)
- Airplane in Flight - Military aircraft (7 submissions)
- Airplane in Flight - Pontoon plane (8 submissions)
- Airplane in Flight - Towing a banner (5 submissions)
- Concert in progress (4 submissions)
- House or building on fire
- Landslide (NOTE 2) (6 submissions)
- Movie set with identifiable props (NOTE 2)
- Parade in progress
- Sail boat race with more than five sail boats (not just five boats sailing in one direction together (5 submissions)
2 Points
3 Points
Final Standings:
- adrbr - 49 points
- mlc1us - 49 points
- giove - 43 points
- milwhcky - 42 points
- Trooper111 - 40 points
- neotrix - 27 points
- mikeb9991 - 19 points
- cmueth - 16 points
- Effi - 12 points
- djhobby - 10 points
- DonMartini - 8 points
- Rene73 - 8 points
- dda - 1 points
- ironflange - 0 points
- Straylight - 0 points
- jbottero - 0 points
Rules
- All maps submitted for points in a scavenger must be new and unique (no duplicates of old maps!).
- To submit a map for the scavenger hunt, submit a map as normal. On the submissions page, you will have a chance to select a category to submit to.
- Once a map is approved by the moderators, you will recieve the points for that category.
- The scavenger hunt ends on the date listed. At that point, the user with the most point wins. Ties are allowed.
All Hunts
- VGT mini-Hunt (2007-05-03 12:00:00 to 2007-05-10 12:00:00)
- 'Big Kahuna' Scavenger Hunt (2007-05-19 14:00:00 to 2007-06-09 14:00:00)
- Mother Of All Scavenger Hunts (2007-07-12 14:00:00 to 2007-07-26 14:00:00)
- Street View Scavenger Hunt (2007-08-09 14:00:00 to 2007-08-23 14:00:00)