Comments on: Ryan’s GoogleEarthing World Tour Complete http://www.googleearthing.com/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/ Tour the world as you search for the location of unidentified satellite photographs. Fri, 18 May 2012 05:04:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Adriaan http://www.googleearthing.com/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Adriaan Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:58:00 +0000 http://www.googleearthing.com/wordpress/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/#comment-447 "I wish I knew all the secrets to finding these. I mean finding a town like Tamworth, NSW or Deadwood, SD is truly an exercise. Any advice?"<br/><br/>My 'advice':<br/>- First and foremost; enjoy the challenge.<br/>- Invest time in it, a lot of time :-)<br/>- Try to find clues in the picture: shadows, orientation (north, south etc.), color of the soil etc etc.<br/><br/>For instance the Tamworth one (world tour #65):<br/>It was pretty clear by then that most of your puzzles were located in either North-America, Europe or Australia/New Zealand. The shadows led me to Australia. So I turned on the roads-layer and went searching along north-south running roads in brownish-red areas. It took about 45 minutes ... <br/><br/>Adriaan “I wish I knew all the secrets to finding these. I mean finding a town like Tamworth, NSW or Deadwood, SD is truly an exercise. Any advice?”

My ‘advice’:
- First and foremost; enjoy the challenge.
- Invest time in it, a lot of time :-)
- Try to find clues in the picture: shadows, orientation (north, south etc.), color of the soil etc etc.

For instance the Tamworth one (world tour #65):
It was pretty clear by then that most of your puzzles were located in either North-America, Europe or Australia/New Zealand. The shadows led me to Australia. So I turned on the roads-layer and went searching along north-south running roads in brownish-red areas. It took about 45 minutes …

Adriaan

]]> By: Ryan http://www.googleearthing.com/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Ryan Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:13:00 +0000 http://www.googleearthing.com/wordpress/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/#comment-446 Here is the final leaderboard<br/><br/> Adriaan - 35<br/> Alan - 17<br/> Rogier - 12<br/> Deepblue - 8<br/> Michael Johnson - 2<br/> Kelly - 1<br/><br/> I would like to commend everyone on their awesome work, I wish I knew all the secrets to finding these. I mean finding a town like Tamworth, NSW or Deadwood, SD is truly an exercise. Any advice? Anyways, the first place prize has been awarded, to a local children's cancer charity, per Adriaan 's kind request. I look forward to searching with you all on old and upcoming puzzles. Merry Christmas, Happy Haunaka, and a happy new year!<br/><br/> Ryan<br/><br/> PS. Yes I was actually visiting family in TN. My sister lives in Nashville and my parents are building a home outside the Great Smokies National Park. It was merely Ironic that the last unknown photo was also in TN. Here is the final leaderboard

Adriaan - 35
Alan - 17
Rogier - 12
Deepblue - 8
Michael Johnson - 2
Kelly - 1

I would like to commend everyone on their awesome work, I wish I knew all the secrets to finding these. I mean finding a town like Tamworth, NSW or Deadwood, SD is truly an exercise. Any advice? Anyways, the first place prize has been awarded, to a local children’s cancer charity, per Adriaan ’s kind request. I look forward to searching with you all on old and upcoming puzzles. Merry Christmas, Happy Haunaka, and a happy new year!

Ryan

PS. Yes I was actually visiting family in TN. My sister lives in Nashville and my parents are building a home outside the Great Smokies National Park. It was merely Ironic that the last unknown photo was also in TN.

]]> By: Adriaan http://www.googleearthing.com/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Adriaan Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:32:00 +0000 http://www.googleearthing.com/wordpress/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/#comment-443 As you can see it was found just a few hours after you left.<br/>By the way: does your family really live in Tennessee or was that just a hint (or both)?<br/>Anyway, I noticed it after I found the spot, so it didn't help :-)<br/><br/>Adriaan As you can see it was found just a few hours after you left.
By the way: does your family really live in Tennessee or was that just a hint (or both)?
Anyway, I noticed it after I found the spot, so it didn’t help :-)

Adriaan

]]> By: Ryan http://www.googleearthing.com/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Ryan Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:14:00 +0000 http://www.googleearthing.com/wordpress/2005/12/ryans-googleearthing-world-tour-complete/#comment-442 copy/pasted from earlier.<br/><br/> Allright! This is my first internet access in a week, I was hoping the last site would be found. It's actually Lookout Mountain, the site of a Civil War battle. I'll post the total results when I get back home, Adriaan and alan, please send your paypal address to<br/><br/> Rtaylor352@yahoo.com copy/pasted from earlier.

Allright! This is my first internet access in a week, I was hoping the last site would be found. It’s actually Lookout Mountain, the site of a Civil War battle. I’ll post the total results when I get back home, Adriaan and alan, please send your paypal address to

Rtaylor352@yahoo.com

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