'Word Hunt' Street View Scavenger Hunt

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This month's Scavenger Hunt is a 60-point Google Street View (SV) hunt with a focus on finding words in SV imagery. The hunt starts on Wed September 17 2008 at noon EST, and will last two weeks.

Only Google Street View imagery is accepted, and the imagery must depict a clearly readable word from a category below.

The top 5 contenders will receive a free copy of Off the Map: The Most Amazing Sights on Earth as Seen by Satellite from our friends at Google Sightseeing:
The first place winner will also receive a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate.

Special Notes:
Note 1: In any location outside of CaliforniaThis hunt ran from 2008-09-17 through 2008-10-01.

Final Standings:

1. microscopicxp - 45 points
2. Sam034 - 44 points
2. neotrix - 44 points
3. adrbr - 42 points
3. bubaonline - 42 points
3. milwhcky - 42 points
4. Tyco - 41 points
5. JulienG - 38 points
6. kkeps - 37 points
7. maveriick - 36 points
8. boothy443 - 28 points
9. giove - 14 points
10. jdubble07 - 1 points
11. mikeb9991 - 0 points
11. photog - 0 points

Categories:

1 Points
• Chateau (12 maps)
• Closed (11 maps)
• Danger (9 maps)
• Dead End (12 maps)
• Exit (12 maps)
• French department name (10 maps)
• French municipality name (11 maps)
• Museum (12 maps)
• Patisserie (12 maps)
• Pizza (12 maps)
• The name of any US city (10 maps)
• The name of any US state (11 maps)
2 Points
• Bibliotheque (11 maps)
• Condemned
• Ferarri (12 maps)
• France (11 maps)
• Google (NOTE 1) (2 maps)
• Le Tour (6 maps)
• Microsoft (10 maps)
• Mosaic (11 maps)
• National Park Service (2 maps)
• Remember (9 maps)
• Root Beer (11 maps)
• Sunday (11 maps)
• Tiki (11 maps)
• USA (11 maps)
• XXX (9 maps)
3 Points
• Aussie (10 maps)
• Globetrotting
• Kangaroo (11 maps)
• Mickey Mouse
• Palindrome (1 maps)
• Scavenger Hunt

Submissions:

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283 maps submitted.