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Past Hunt: Street View Scavenger Hunt

Categories:

1 Point
• Ambulance (4 submissions)
• Big-box warehouse store (Costco or Sam's) (3 submissions)
• Billboard (2 submissions)
• Bird (5 submissions)
• Boat or jet-skis on a trailer (3 submissions)
• Bookstore (2 submissions)
• Cafe with people sitting outside (2 submissions)
• Car being towed by a wrecker (1 submission)
• Car on a lift at a service station (2 submissions)
• Celebrity home (1) (2 submissions)
• Convertible with the top down (3 submissions)
• Cruise ship (2 submissions)
• Donut shop (3 submissions)
• Fast food franchise (3 submissions)
• Ferry (2 submissions)
• Fire engine (4 submissions)
• Flag - Non US country (2 submissions)
• Flag - US (6 submissions)
• Identifiable mural (1) (3 submissions)
• Identifiable sculpture (1) (2 submissions)
• Library (2 submissions)
• Person pushing a baby stroller (4 submissions)
• Police officer or fire-fighter in uniform (3 submissions)
• Road construction (1 submission)
• Site with an article in Wikipedia (1) (2 submissions)
• Someone looking straight into the Google camera (5 submissions)
• Someone on a bicycle (4 submissions)
• Someone on a skateboard (3 submissions)
• Someone on rollerblades (2 submissions)
• Sporting event in progress (2 submissions)
• Two people holding hands (5 submissions)
• US Navy ship (2 submissions)

2 Points
• Armed Forces vehicle (2 submissions)
• Bouncy house (2 submissions)
• Car accident (2 submissions)
• Car worth more than $100,000 (USD MSRP) (2 submissions)
• Carnival or street fair (2 submissions)
• Funeral
• Hot dog street vendor (2 submissions)
• Ice cream truck (1 submission)
• Inflatable balloon advertisement (1 submission)
• Movie marquee with readable names (3 submissions)
• Novelty limo (2) (2 submissions)
• Plane taking off or landing (6 submissions)
• Police officer writing a ticket (3 submissions)
• Scene with three or more people talking on mobile phones (3) (1 submission)
• Shadow or reflection of the Google photography car (3 submissions)
• Someone holding a sign (2 submissions)
• Someone inside their house as seen through their window (4 submissions)
• Someone on a horse (2 submissions)
• Someone sun bathing or in a bathing suit / bikini (3 submissions)
• Someone washing a car - not at a commercial car wash (1 submission)
• Someone with a funny hat (1 submission)
• Train at a railroad crossing (2 submissions)

3 Points
• Car with a dog hanging out the window (1 submission)
• Car worth more than $1,000,000 (USD MSRP)
• Car worth more than $500,000 (USD MSRP)
• Clown
• Drawbridge in the up position (2 submissions)
• People in a fist fight (1 submission)
• Someone along the road changing a tire - not at a tire shop or service station (1 submission)
• Structure on fire

Final Standings:

1. mlc1us - 86 points
2. maveriick - 61 points
3. milwhcky - 18 points
4. nibor - 12 points
5. daggerwell - 9 points
6. bubaonline - 6 points
7. eeb - 4 points
8. tk42one - 2 points
9. mikeb9991 - 2 points
10. regisc - 0 points
11. Ars3nic - 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.

Past and Present 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)
• Long Overdue Scavenger Hunt (2008-04-23 11:00:00 to 2008-05-07 11:00:00)
• Here's Lookin At You! Street View Scavenger Hunt (2008-06-18 11:00:00 to 2008-07-02 11:00:00)