Google Maps Streetview

cool building.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/2fe24c25d4859466beeb27d95f7e659c/tumblr_mndc3h85FT1qivgd4o1_1280.png

I'm guessing Iowa

Saskatchewan, Iowa.

what is that, a grain elevator? awesome

http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/grain_elevators.html

Obviously, no Canadian would reference "Liberty" on their grain storage building. It would be too boastful.

actually i managed to close the page before finding out where it was. I'LL NEVER FIND OUT.

there are fewer of them ever year--

In 1950 there were 3,035 primary elevators in Saskatchewan, with storage capacity of 283 million bushels and twenty-two licenced buyers. Twenty years later, in 1970, there were 2,750 elevators, with storage capacity of 225 million bushels. After that the number of elevators declined tremendously, so that by 2004 there are only 197 primary licenced elevators, with a storage capacity of 2.8 million tonnes (100 million bushels). Although there are only six major grain companies as buyers, there are now approximately fifteen terminals owned by farmers—wholly or in some joint venture with a major grain company.

http://saskgrainelevators.blogspot.ca/

guys, it said LIBERTY SASKATCHEWAN right on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty,_Saskatchewan

VANISHING SENTINELS II

This 371 page full color book contains:
Diagrams and descriptions on how a wooden grain elevator operated
Maps showing where the railroads and elevators were from 1950-2010
and which remain today;
The histories of the Western Saskatchewan grain elevators
(When they opened, which companies owned them, and their known fate);
Photos of the remaining wooden, steel and concrete elevators with some that
have been demolished from 2000-2010,
and their present location as of December 2010.

http://goo.gl/maps/CPqBu

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:+51.153,-105.437&hl=en&ll=51.145339,-105.442561&spn=0.003816,0.010568&sll=51.145345,-105.441953&sspn=0.007633,0.021136&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.145345,-105.441953&panoid=UHInaUjmMLgKPHgtkvLInA&cbp=12,112.81,,0,-10.32

http://www.custodela.com/p/smiles/emot-colbert.gif

thanks for that. I just booked a ticket to Liberty, Saskatchewan.

beautiful country out there, buddy. good fishing up at last mountain lake. craven country jamboree down the road the first week of july, randy travis, kenny chesney, tim mcgraw.

New high score on cajunsunday's/Grampsy's game!

Didn't cheat, just spent four hours playing. And there are two of us.

guys, it said LIBERTY SASKATCHEWAN right on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty,_Saskatchewan

― dylannn, Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:28 PM (3 hours ago)

You guys are all cheating. The real rules of this game are that you are not even allowed to look at the screen: a 3rd party must act out the scene via charades and then you throw a dart in the general direction of a map.

Reading the name of a grain elevator is just wayyyyy over the line for me, for example, consider blind people or those without a computer for example.

If there's one thing that 112 years on the planet have taught me, it's that anything worth doing is worth doing "by all means necessary".

26951 - Challenge me and feel free to cheat like a motherfucker.

Things I hate:

• Russian locations because I can't read Cyrillic.

• Locations where you can't move anywhere, just look around yourself.

• I swear, if I get dropped down on some stretch of a 1000 km dirt road in the middle of Australia again...

Man, I just got dropped underwater on the Great Barrier Reef! Best result ever! Turtles! They streetviewed the Great Barrier Reef, ffs!

http://maps.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/gallery/ocean/heron-island.html

haha, it's amazing what those Google cars can do! if you walk around a bit, you can climb out of the water and watch a couple of guys practicing their scuba diving in a resort swimming pool.

I got dropped here today.

what on ilx? that car does get everywhere

26951 - Challenge me and feel free to cheat like a motherfucker.

― pplains

got 11762 on this one - I tend to be happy enough with anything over 11k especially on one like that with wide open spaces

For doing this I do a panorama and i zoom but i dont move away from my original location, mostly get scores of around 12K, had 15k occasionally, 16300 is best so far but that came from getting 2 of them within 10 miles

oh and no research in another tab obv!

I got dropped here today.

― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:34 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is that Florida? The little radar dish, the wide open spaces and the huge buildings on the horizon say NASA to me.

New high score.

― kate78, Friday, 24 May 2013

i got a new high score with that one too! 17102, tho the football stadium was a bit of a give away

My first try: 10070 points

Guessed the right continent for all of them
U.S. plains guesses were close
Thought Alaska was Washington or Oregon

That was fun!

― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013

14057 at this one, got the alaska one super close and another US one within 7 miles but got one of the others on the wrong continent which let me down

Wait you mean you can play exactly the same locations as another person played?

Apparently so! Weird - I didn't realize you could do that.

It is Midway Atoll, Phil. Prompted me to look it up, it was only a WWII name for me.

i just got 19,241 but was helped by landing on the doorstep of petra and a lucky guess at vancouver.

OFF TOPIC but I just accidentally dragged 'javascript:void(0)' into my Google Maps directions destination, and it sent me to the Wall Street Journal's London office. What does it all mean?????

This is frustrating and fun--why is it so obsessed with Finland, though?

I find this game really has a boner for Finland, northern Norway, the prairie provinces of Canada, western Australia, Ukraine, and western Russia.

And Brazil. Don't forget Brazil.

Yesterday, I did get plopped down next to a beach on which were parked four fire trucks that said OXNARD FIRE DEPT. I didn't even have to turn once, let alone move, and got it within .05km.

I got one that set me down right outside the Ketchikan Ferry Terminal. Another on the Confederation Bridge.

are the locations randomised or from a selection of pre-chosen places?

I landed on Midway again!

i always enjoy getting close-up people shots. i found this amazing one of a bunch of guys running towards the google car but i didnt manage to screen shoot it in time.

check out this guy!

http://kidsteel.tumblr.com/image/52082260415

http://24.media.tumblr.com/5cd9fafc1ab10a287f2d0de7c8ccb004/tumblr_mnu4nrxwJ41qivgd4o1_1280.png

You have to name him.

I got one that set me down right outside the Ketchikan Ferry Terminal

I've had that one too. So, pre-chosen rather than random, I reckon, otherwise what are the chances?

The one that plunked me down in the middle of a logging road in a BC forest sure seemed random.

I have been noticing this unintentional Soderbergh filtered way of going from the grainy standard cameras from the 2007 days of yore to the high-def ones of today. Sometimes you'll catch the scenes side-by-side, and can back up and down from one year to the next.

I've gotten the Ketchikan one and nameless dude, so yeah, probably not totally random. But they still seem to give me "road in Australia with no identifying features" a lot.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=124+Honey+Lane,+Tottenville,+Staten+Island,+NY,+United+States&hl=en&ll=40.508742,-74.237151&spn=0.02607,0.038581&sll=40.508725,-74.236691&layer=c&cbp=13,277.48,,1,4.93&cbll=40.508647,-74.237127&hnear=124+Honey+Ln,+Staten+Island,+Richmond,+New+York+10307&t=m&z=15&panoid=GxsD8cCzzYsSThAQ6jlm7A

Every day these two welcome home

Kinda neat to find a place on there where it's always Christmas.

I was cruising through some neighborhood - maybe in Baltimore - where the yards had gravestones and the front porches had cobwebs. Of all times they pick to drive the camera around, they pick Halloween.