KLM Secret Cities
Apr 8, 2011, 10:09 am
#48
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It's Milano and I was 35 meters away. Too far I think.
I have a question. How do they know it is you? Are you supposed to tweet afterwards?
I have a question. How do they know it is you? Are you supposed to tweet afterwards?
Apr 8, 2011, 10:20 am
#49
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Castello Sforzesco, Milano. I got 1M 
I think they will contact you via a DM on Twitter, then you'll give your true identity to get the prize 
Apr 8, 2011, 2:40 pm
#51
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Apr 11, 2011, 9:11 am
#55
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Apr 11, 2011, 9:17 am
#56
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Apr 11, 2011, 9:56 am
#57
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This is taken from the golden gate bridge road (north side).
The lampost in the shot is #5. You can tell because further down the road (towards the bridge), there is chain link fence between the posts so can't be that far down, and there are only a couple more posts further north.
When you look at google maps the view is identical. Yet I still managed to be 114m away.
Think they need to get the distances corrected for this to be a fair competition.
Image:
http://postimage.org/image/h8mfjbqc
The lampost in the shot is #5. You can tell because further down the road (towards the bridge), there is chain link fence between the posts so can't be that far down, and there are only a couple more posts further north.
When you look at google maps the view is identical. Yet I still managed to be 114m away.
Think they need to get the distances corrected for this to be a fair competition.
Image:
http://postimage.org/image/h8mfjbqc
Last edited by United_Flyer3; Apr 11, 2011 at 10:12 am
Apr 11, 2011, 10:14 am
#58
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: GRU - CGH
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When you look at google maps the view is identical. Yet I still managed to be 114m away.
Think they need to get the distances corrected for this to be a fair competition.
Image:
http://postimage.org/image/h8mfjbqc
Think they need to get the distances corrected for this to be a fair competition.
Image:
http://postimage.org/image/h8mfjbqc
It doesnt make any sense.
Apr 11, 2011, 11:06 am
#59
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: England
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This is taken from the golden gate bridge road (north side).
The lampost in the shot is #5. You can tell because further down the road (towards the bridge), there is chain link fence between the posts so can't be that far down, and there are only a couple more posts further north.
When you look at google maps the view is identical. Yet I still managed to be 114m away.
Think they need to get the distances corrected for this to be a fair competition.
Image:
http://postimage.org/image/h8mfjbqc
The lampost in the shot is #5. You can tell because further down the road (towards the bridge), there is chain link fence between the posts so can't be that far down, and there are only a couple more posts further north.
When you look at google maps the view is identical. Yet I still managed to be 114m away.
Think they need to get the distances corrected for this to be a fair competition.
Image:
http://postimage.org/image/h8mfjbqc
Yes, the distances are horrendous.
Apr 11, 2011, 3:56 pm
#60
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I did 4th lightpost from north which looked the first from north that didn'd have any visible background on the left in Google street view, got 90m. Probably it is the northernmost lightpost?
The basic idea of this competition seemed fun at first, now I'm starting to dislike the vagueness of the locations and rules based strictly on distance to those, now that our research is getting exact... Kind of fun, though, that we have free web tools where we can really pinpoint anything globally to 1m or 10m :-)
The basic idea of this competition seemed fun at first, now I'm starting to dislike the vagueness of the locations and rules based strictly on distance to those, now that our research is getting exact... Kind of fun, though, that we have free web tools where we can really pinpoint anything globally to 1m or 10m :-)
Last edited by haa; Apr 11, 2011 at 3:57 pm Reason: minor clarification