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the shizzle => bouldering => Topic started by: tommytwotone on February 06, 2006, 10:44:24 pm

Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 06, 2006, 10:44:24 pm: right, a googley earthy quiz for the really sad - ID these indoor walls one time:

1) A wall, in a city (easy):

(http://ukbouldering.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10086/normal_Wall%202.JPG)

2) A wall, in a city (easyish):

(http://ukbouldering.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10086/normal_Wall%203.JPG)

3) A wall, in a city (medium):

(http://ukbouldering.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10086/normal_Wall%204.JPG)

4) A wall, in a city (hard):

(http://ukbouldering.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10086/normal_Wall%201.JPG)

N.B. I had more, but i fucked up google earth somehow. Will try again if y'all get these word.

Enjoy.
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: dave on February 06, 2006, 10:56:10 pm: #1 the edge
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 06, 2006, 11:05:36 pm: bo. any advance?
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: Falling Down on February 07, 2006, 08:07:41 am: #2 - Westway??
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tesla on February 07, 2006, 08:22:07 am: #2 is definitely the westway - can't fail to recognize the shepherd's bush roundabout...no idea about the others, though.
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 07, 2006, 08:41:47 am: Word FD - you got the Westway even though I rotated it a bit!
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: Bonjoy on February 07, 2006, 09:05:42 am: #3 - Mile End?
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 07, 2006, 09:34:18 am: aight Bonnos.

Respect is due to the person who gets no.4...
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: moose on February 07, 2006, 09:58:13 am: is #4 Hull Rockcity?
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 07, 2006, 10:03:21 am: nope...
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: andy_e on February 07, 2006, 10:04:22 am: The Foundary?
by the looks of it though i suppose it could be anywhere :roll:
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: webbo on February 07, 2006, 11:19:11 am: Quote from: "moose"
is #4 Hull Rockcity?

there is no grass in dull,not near rockcity anyhow.you'd recognise it from the burnt out cars.
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: rc on February 07, 2006, 11:27:05 am: Tragically, I can identify #4 as the awesome kelsey kerridge (sp?) in Cambridge. Identifiable swimming pool swervy roof and adjacent mini skate park.

Now I'm remembering the lost hours spent sketching around on the worst (?) wall in the UK. Depressing.

btw: if you squint you can make out the lat/long in the corner of the GE image and put it into streetmap, but that would have been cheating...
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 07, 2006, 12:21:46 pm: blimey rc, that is quite a shout. I thought I was the only person carrying the emotional scars of KK being my local for a bit.

that's all four then...one courtesy of Mr Bad/Angry Fox himself:

(http://ukbouldering.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10110/normal_school.jpg)

am off to #3 tonight, will do a few more when I get home...
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: rc on February 07, 2006, 01:57:44 pm: You did say this quiz was for the really sad.

I was a somewhat regular visitor to the KK 2000-2003 (the twilight years). It was expensive and shit - all I ever got was a rekindled tendon injury. Damn those flatlanders.
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 07, 2006, 03:24:16 pm: word. More later on.
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 07, 2006, 10:06:32 pm: sadly, resolution was poor on the others I'd had ideas for, so i will bow out with one final effort:

a wall, in a city:

(http://ukbouldering.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10086/normal_Wall%205.JPG)

that is all.
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: Bonjoy on February 08, 2006, 09:26:53 am: The foundry of course
Title: Google Earth Quiz 3
Post by: tommytwotone on February 08, 2006, 10:22:11 am: Au naturel Monsieur - no amount of rotating / messing about was gonna disguise that was it?