The VGT moderators have put some good work into coming up with several scavenger hunts visitors can do over the next few months. The first one will start Saturday, 2009-02-28 at Noon EST.
Details about the hunt will be revealed at the start time. Cash prizes (Amazon.com gift cards) for the winners. Good luck!
Virtual Globetrotting has been seeing more and more visitors lately (hello friends!), so we’re going to upgrade to a brand-spankin’ new web and database server to handle the increasing load. There will be two hours of downtime between 2am and 4am PST on 10/25. During that time, the web site may not be reachable.
See you on the new server!
Update 2:02am: Quicker than expected, we’re up and running on the new server. Sorry for the short downtime!
The Word Hunt Scavenger Hunt was a fun hunt with 287 words found. microscopicxp squeaked out a win by 1 point, with Sam034 and neotrix tying for 2nd.
The top 5 winners by points (which is 7 people due to a tie for 3rd) will be receiving a copy of Off The Map:
I will be emailing the winners later today to confirm their mailing addresses.
Thanks to everyone who participated!
Some of the winner’s submissions:
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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 the category list.
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.
The category list for this hunt is here.
Good luck!
A new scavenger hunt will start next Wed Sep 17 at noon EST. This hunt is a Street View hunt, looking for words. We’ve come up with some good ones!
See you then!
Three and a half years after Virtual Globetrotting first said “Hello, World“, we decided to clean things up a bit and get a fresh haircut.
The entire site has been scrutinized and updated to increase consistency, usability and navigation. The search box is smarter and incorporates Google Search as backup. Several pages have been optimized and sped-up. The map submission form has some JavaScript tricks up its sleeves to make submissions easier and more accurate.
Most importantly, we feel the site looks crisper and more refined. Maybe not Web 2.0 but at least Web 1.9.
If you find any problems with the site, feel free to email us. Thanks for all your support.
Today we’ve reached a great milestone — the 50,000th user submitted map to VGT. gamma submitted a Google map of a plane landing at Palma de Mallorca:
I want to thank each any every one of you fellow Globetrotters — visitors, maps submitters, lurkers, first timers, moderators. You’ve all contributed to making VGT an awesome resource for exploring our globe, and a great community to be a part of.
VGT is over 3 years old now, and I have some planned updates coming soon including a small face lift and a few much-requested features. Stay tuned!
Our Here’s Lookin At You! Street View Scavenger Hun was a ton of fun, and we had 210 new Street View maps submitted. Great job everyone!
Some of my favorites:
The Here’s Lookin’ At You! Street View Scavenger Hunt has started!
The scavenger hunt will last two weeks and there will be $100 in cash prizes (Amazon.com gift certificates) for the winners. The prize breakdown is as follows:
If there is a tie for first place, the prize money will be distributed as such:
All submissions must be Google Street View submissions.
Never done a VGT Scavenger Hunt before? Take a look at the category list and submit new maps for places you find. You acquire points once the moderators approve of your submission.
Good luck contestants!
In celebration of Google Street View’s 1-year anniversary and the 37 new cities they’ve just released Street View images of, we will be starting a new scavenger hunt (Street View focused) on Wed Jun 18 at noon EST.
The scavenger hunt will last two weeks and there will be $100 in cash prizes (Amazon.com gift certificates) for the winners.
Stay tuned!
adrbr, a new member this year, took the monthly top-submitter lead from long-time submitter and moderator kjfitz. adrbr is submitting a wide variety of cool maps. Welcome to the community! Thanks to everyone else who is submitting maps too. We’re nearing 50,000!
The most popular map on the site of all time (Bill Gate’s house) is joined by this month’s most popular map of his house in France, which is also nearby one of Paul Allen’s villas:
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