Just because: Go to http://www.mapcrunch.com/. Click "Options" (right beside the logo). Click "Stealth" (down at the bottom). Click "go". Find an airport! For bonus points: don't use anything but what you see in StreetView. That means no checking other maps, or looking up place names, or landmarks, or languages! :D Once you succeed, post your results here FOR GREAT JUSTICE! (And if you don't succeed, tell us how long you had to wander in the streets of Beijing before you gave up and had a poptart!) (I'm sure at least some of us have heard of this game before; it popped up on Tumblr tonight and I got to kill an hour driving through Ireland, which is apparently lovely in November.) I'll start us off: start time: 12.47 AM departure point: slightly north of Arklow, Ireland arrival point: departures terminal, Dublin Airport end time: 1.17 AM have fun!!
Well, I just got dropped off right by an abandoned church. Good to see this journey is off to a promising start. :I
Oo, Geoguessr is also similar to this and really fun: https://geoguessr.com/ it drops you in a random place and you can wander around as much as you want before guessing your location. I never had the patience for the airport game : P
EXTREME EDITION: forget airports, the task is to drive your way home (provided you can find a starting point on the right continent) 2 minutes in: a look at a road sign informs me that I am somewhere in Lithuania. Cool, this should be doable. I think I'll set my goal as driving to Tallinn (I doubt they have streetview pics of the Gulf of Finland ferries). Heading north per the compass. I arrive at an intersection with a larger road, leading west towards Vilnius. My goal's north though so I just cross and continue on my lil country road. …which ends at a T-junction at the next village. I arbitrarily pick the right side, where a saintly-looking statue stands beside the road. First living being on camera: a horse! And right beside it, some goats. My road seems to be gradually turning towards southeast so I take the next turn left. …Ten minutes later, another T-junction, again leading to Vilnius to the west. Ok, I'll head that way for a while, but I'll take the next turn north again. The road's wet now. Three kilometers to go 'til Nevieriškės. Poplars line the road. I like the ambience here. Another ten minutes later, the road is no longer paved. I drive along for some three villages, then arrive back to a larger road. Stork sighted nesting on a telephone pole! And a second one not two hundred meters later, too. One hour in and I am crossing river Neris and arriving at an actual town. Seems like a good place to cut this episode. Next stop, apparently: Zarasai, 123 kilometers to the north.
Just finished a round of Geoguessr! This is incredibly fun and really hard. First try: somewhere Spanish and equatorial. Wander around a bit, spy a travel bus that says "Ecuador", awesome. Wander around some more, find a sign that is promoting all the money the government is sinking into the "Via Lobeguerrero-Buja". Hunt through the map for these cities in Ecuador. No dice. South to Peru? No, the names are wrong. North to Colombia? Oh hey, Lobeguerrero. Final result: ~1.4 km from target. Second try: prairie. Looks like home. Oh, no, the US somewhere, the speed limit signs are in miles. Wander wander wander. End result: intersection of NE Cache Road and NE Independence Avenue in Lawton, Oklahoma. Third try: oh fuck it's in Cyrillic. Crash course in transliterating Cyrillic via the provided map. After at least half an hour of wandering, translating signs, and poring over the map, I find myself at the intersection of M29 and Grazhdanskaya Road, between Tikhoretsk and Fastovetskaya. Fourth try: back to the States. Somewhere with mountains in the distance, but lots of flat ground. First guess, maybe western Montana...? After much wandering through farmland (this would be easier if you could see the licence plates), I find myself at the junction of Hwy 39 and Hwy 50, Oregon (just outside of Malin). Fifth try: oh look, I'm about ten blocks away from the junction of two major highways (interstate 80 and hwy 95), in Winnemucca, Nevada. Well that one was easy. wow. that was fun. :D Three hours total.
Oh fuck you, last time I played the airport game I ended up in the ass end of Glasgow on a one-lane street for an hour. ... I'M ON A FUCKING BOAT.
Alright, ready to try this again. start time: 10:20 PM departure point: Elderslie, Scotland arrival point: Drop-off zone FUCKING Glasgow airport. end time: 10:39
Twenty kilometers later, my highway turns gradually east and then southward. Seems like a bad sign so I backtrack to the previous town and check some smaller roads leading north. Two dead ends (one of them, apparently, a military base) scouted before I find one that actually seems to lead somewhere. I pass a county boundary or something of the sort, get lost at a town for a while, but keep heading north. A hour or so later I sight the first road sign pointing to a locale in Latvia (Daugavpils, to be specific). 45 minutes more and I'm at the Latvian border. Thus ends today's episode!
I'm still trying to find my airport but this was really cute to me. The googlecar basically followed that lady & her stroller for ages, and then SUDDENLY FAMILY MEETUP.
LOL. Forget about finding an airport. I'm just trying to find evidence of human habitation. It's getting foggy. Alone. So alone.
Bumping an old thread but this showed up on my dash again and I love torturing myself. Also I've been drinking for extra challenge! I'm in Israel. MapCrunch loves dropping me off in a handful of regions: near Chicago, in Glasgow, and Israel. Good thing about those three though is that the signs are always (at least partially, in the case of the last) in English. EDIT: AHAHAHAHA this whole section of road is cut off. I can see more road, but I can't get there in either direction. It's all just partially mapped.
i have found civilization... but the signs aren't in english. It is so tempting to just head north till I hit america + Canada, then find my town and airport
