Find Waldo On Google Earth

That would have been pretty difficult to get the proportions correct on that size of an image when you can't step back from it.
 
Ah fuckit! I give up! I went block by block through Vancouver for about 10 minutes. :(
 
it's not on google earth yet... she just put the thing up, and the photos of vancouver that google earth has is a bit old. She knows this though and hopes she'll have it up long enough for google's next refresh.

I was watching this on the news last night. It's her art school final project. she wanted something that would last a bit more than something that would be put on display in the art school for a couple weeks, seeing as how she's been working all year on it. It's a pretty good idea.
 
Prince Precious said:
it's not on google earth yet... she just put the thing up, and the photos of vancouver that google earth has is a bit old. She knows this though and hopes she'll have it up long enough for google's next refresh.

I was watching this on the news last night. It's her art school final project. she wanted something that would last a bit more than something that would be put on display in the art school for a couple weeks, seeing as how she's been working all year on it. It's a pretty good idea.
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She'll be waiting a long time lol

A new house went up in my subdivision since 2 years ago but Google Maps still doesn't show it in satellite image.
 
Do we get a prize if we find it? :D If not then im never going to find it :O :). I wonder when does google do their updates?.
 
Prince Precious said:
it's not on google earth yet... she just put the thing up, and the photos of vancouver that google earth has is a bit old. She knows this though and hopes she'll have it up long enough for google's next refresh.

I was watching this on the news last night. It's her art school final project. she wanted something that would last a bit more than something that would be put on display in the art school for a couple weeks, seeing as how she's been working all year on it. It's a pretty good idea.
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I figured, I know the shot of my town is way old. We have an entirely new neighborhood that sprung up, but it's still a mound of dirt on Google Earth.
 
If you were in someplace like Chicago or something like that your might be able to do this as some of the larger cities seem to be updated a lot more often. For anyone else thought this would never work. Like most others, my area's maps haven't been updated in years. I've been in my house 3 years now and it still shows the same map it did before I moved in.
 
Exavior said:
If you were in someplace like Chicago or something like that your might be able to do this as some of the larger cities seem to be updated a lot more often. For anyone else thought this would never work. Like most others, my area's maps haven't been updated in years. I've been in my house 3 years now and it still shows the same map it did before I moved in.
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I live right outside Chicago. The house I mentioned a couple post above isn't on the map yet :/
 
Azhar said:
I live right outside Chicago. The house I mentioned a couple post above isn't on the map yet :/
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I meant downtown. Although maybe it isn't updated as often as I thought. I had thought a few cities I had looked at had been updated more often. I know they let you zoom in more and for some reason I was thinking they were updated more also. Maybe not. Its been one of those weeks and my brian is half dead now. :(
 
Ya, I think it'll be faded and destroyed before it's photographed. unless Google has any sort of control over when the photos are taken etc.. maybe they'll get new images of vancouver just to show this...

Someone needs to make a giant 2010 olympics logo in the city and pay google to update the images so it's in google earth.
 
While the publicity might help get a more rapid update, I doubt Google would want to set the precedent. It'd be the next generation of crop circles...
 
match the buildings... its the location.... the photos haven't been updated yet
 
if i cant see him then its wrong.


when does google earth update? i was just searhing and my local nutrition corner just went up 1 year or longer or so.........soo
 
Slufa111 said:
if i cant see him then its wrong.
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????

You must be kidding. The location is the correct location. Can't admit you're wrong, eh? ;-)


The hints the photographs on the blog supply *ALOT* of information that helps narrow down the search.

In flightpathwaldo.jpg you can see a bus on the street in front of the building without trolley lines. That narrows down how many streets to look at.

In waldolongshot.jpg, you can see mountains in the background... the only mountains that look like that are North of Vancouver. That narrows down which orientation of streets to look at.

In both the previous pictures, it's apparent that the neighbourhood is a medium density area with multilevel apartments that aren't skyscrapers... that pretty much defines a couple of neighbourhoods in Vancouver... Kitsilano is the first one that comes to mind. This finally narrows it down to a relatively small area of Vancouver.

Armed with that information, it doesn't take long to locate a block with same pattern of buildings visible in flightpathwaldo.jpg.

The pictures on the blog were a really cool way to give people hints as to where in Vancouver Waldo should be when the satellite maps get updated.

I've looked on mapquest, yahoo and microsoft virtual earth and they don't have waldo present as well.
 
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