Author: nic

After 10 days of the Old School All Google Maps All The Time Scavenger, we finally have our top 3 finishers:

1. adrbr – 106 points – $50
2. Tyco – 93 points – $30
3. kkeps – 88 points – $20

Congratulations to adrbr for placing first!

We saw an amazing 289 maps submitted during the hunt. Great finds everyone!

Here are the full final standings:

1. adrbr – 106 points
2. Tyco – 93 points
3. kkeps – 88 points
4. giove – 86 points
5. javelinpr – 29 points
6. pmoore66 – 20 points
7. Paginadetodos – 16 points
8. hhgygy – 6 points
9. skyeye – 2 points

There were a lot of great finds! You can see all of them here.

3 days into the Scavenger Hunt and we’ve already seen 170 maps!

Here are the Current Standings:

1. adrbr – 76 points
2. giove – 49 points
3. kkeps – 44 points
4. pmoore66 – 20 points
5. javelinpr – 18 points
6. Paginadetodos – 16 points
7. Tyco – 7 points
8. skyeye – 2 points
9. hhgygy – 1 points

Remember, there are cash prizes for the winners. And you also get an Achievement!

The Scavenger Hunt runs until this Sunday 2010-12-05 at 9PM PST, so you still have plenty of time to participate.

Here are some of my favorite submissions for this hunt so far:

© Google Maps

Bullfight at the moment

© Google Maps

Carnival

© Google Maps

King Sejong Station

© Google Maps

Warped Tour 2010

© Google Maps

Castle of Csesznek

© Google Maps

Gusau Dam

© Google Maps

Pioneer Skatepark

Five and a half years, and 100,000 submissions after VirtualGlobetrotting opened its doors, we’re bringing you back to the roots of internet satellite imagery with a scavenger hunt focused entirely on the company that energized the industry — Google Maps Satellite imagery.

All valid submissions must be straight Google Maps Satellite imagery. No Bing, Yahoo, Birds Eye, Street View or 45 degree imagery.

Thanks to Kevin (kjfitz) for putting this together, and all of the moderators for helping with the submissions!

The hunt starts on Friday November 26 at 9am PST, and will last 10 days until Sunday December 5 at 9pm PST.

The total points you can find for this hunt is 129 (the biggest we’ve ever put on!). The user with the most points at the end of the hunt wins!

Looking for your scavenger hunt score? Check your Scavenger Hunt page for details.

Cash Prizes (Amazon.com gift certificates) for the winners are as follows:

• 1st: $50
• 2nd: $30
• 3rd: $20

If there is a tie for first place, the the first person to get the points takes first place, and the others are ordered by the time they finished their last submission.

Good luck!

See the Scavenger Hunt page for more details

Almost a year and a half after the last one, VirtualGlobetrotting will be hosting a Scavenger Hunt starting Friday, November 26 2010 @ 9am PST.

We’re sorry it has been such a long time since we put one of these together! Please come join in the fun with us on Friday.

Hint: We’re going old-school with this one, back to our roots. The entire hunt will be entirely Google Maps satellite views (no Street View).

See you then!

Today at 11:16:24am PST, 5 years, 5 months, and 29 days after the first map was submitted, VirtualGlobetrotting reached an amazing milestone:

The 100,000th map was submitted!

© Bing Maps

James Mattei's house (former)

Congratulations to Champion3 for submitting the 100,000th map!

And thank you, everyone, who has participated in our community by submitting maps, being a moderator, or even just stopping by.

This was also Champion3’s 1,719th map. Impressive!

I also awarded Champion3 a special Achievement:

* Note: The map’s number is 104,692 as there have been 4,692 maps that were removed from the database for various reasons.