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Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode
- spicyj 14y agoBeautiful. Is this an April Fools' joke or a permanent Easter Egg? (In the latter case, I suppose it'd be fitting that today is Easter.)
- branciforte3241 14y agoIt's an April Fools' joke.
- 27182818284 14y agoThis is such a little thing that is going to be absolutely great for my nieces and nephews. When getting directions, the markers and line between the start and end points are the same. They should add in a dashed line and a big black X for the destination as soon as possible :-) A weekend trip to a national park can be made that much more fun by having a family treasure hunt with the kids in the back seat "navigating" the way.
- calvinlough 14y agoIt's just an April Fools thing, so it will probably only be accessible for the next day or so.
- nelse 14y agoI love this company for such projects!
- dag11 14y agoThis is beautiful, though, I'm oddly disappointed that when showing a route to a destination, it doesn't mark the destination with "x marks the spot".
- buro9 14y agoWhat's rather special about this is StreetView.
- tripzilch 14y agoooh yes. faux-sepia, vignetting, scratches. beautifully done! I'm not too impressed with the "treasure map" style maps of my local neighbourhood though, apart from the names in a different font, an arbitrary icon here and there, there's hardly any details at all, not even the larger roads are complete.
- cogar09 14y agoNone of the ogres or trolls are mapped in my neighborhood either, nor are there any ships falling off the map in to a pit of monsters, lame. Although I do give them points for the flatness of the map.
- ot 14y agoWhen you zoom in, the dust spots rotate. Awesome.
- codesuela 14y agoMade me touch my monitor, silly me
- bajsejohannes 14y agoVery cute little icons for landmarks in the cities. They put a bird on Portland.
- dag11 14y agoThe bird on it brings me so much joy. I also love the effects on Street View.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoI don't understand why New York has a pirate skull with numbers in the eye sockets: http://i.imgur.com/xNnJvU7.png http://i.imgur.com/xNnJvU7.png
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- tripzilch 14y agoThere's a similar one in Amsterdam. Seems to be the only "special" icon in NL though.
- toxic_madness 14y agoGo to the coordinates in the eye sockets, and it takes you to another landmark with coordinates.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoDidn't seem to work for me.
- toxic_madness 14y agoThe coordinates that are indicated in the landmarks are a bit hard to read sometimes, and you have to piece them together. The skull in New York is pointing to: (-15.36, 15.90). After searching for that location, zoom in on the green arrow, and you should see a piece of ham that is pointing to: (-21.53, 46.05) The coordinates at the sword that comes next are also ambiguous. You have to infer that the 9 in the handle is indicating that the first number is 9.81.
- lubujackson 14y agoThey shut down Google Reader then put up a pointless map hack. Recognize that putting this together took a bunch of people's time and energy, not to mention processing power, server load, etc. All reasons for shutting down Reader. What is the message Google is communicating to everyone? "We're still fun, just less useful?" Sorry if I don't have room to appreciate their "corporate whimsy" anymore.
- mikeash 14y agoYou could have been out helping people instead of writing this comment.
- dag11 14y agoNot saying either is right or wrong, but there's a difference between a major product and what was likely a side project of a few employees.
- jblock 14y agoProject decisions aren't binary. I'd assume that people that worked on Reader didn't work on this.
- branciforte3241 14y agoReader was based on a very old Google platform that was no longer viable. Porting Reader to the new infrastructure essencially meant rebuilding the entire thing as a new project. The amount of work does not even compare to an April Fools hack by the Maps team. Can we please stop using everything that Google does as an excuse to complain about Reader?
- TillE 14y agoWhere are you getting that information?
- dkssi 14y agoI guess they made us all last-day-of-March fools.
- dm2 14y agoSupposedly there are Treasure Chests somewhere. Not sure if you have to be in Street View to find them or not. Might be an early April fools though...
- ynniv 14y agoSome landmarks have coordinates on them. I followed the chain for a while, but then I lost it. https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.359305,-71.067467&t=8&z=14 https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.359305,-71.067467&t=8...
- qpleple 14y agoManhattan https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.713175,-73.998499&spn=0.055885,0.096388&t=8&z=14 https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.713175,-73.998499&spn...
- gbraad 14y agoBeijing and London also have some landmarks iconized
- dag11 14y agoI kept following the coordinates, but now I can't get past 13.227246, -61.169043
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- purge 14y agohttps://maps.google.com/maps?q=47.57,-122.25&hl=en&ll=47.576005,-122.250023&spn=0.031904,0.0842&sll=37.897411,-61.961346&sspn=0.037319,0.0842&t=8&z=14 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=47.57,-122.25&hl=en&l... is next (correction)
- toxic_madness 14y agoI think 37.89,-61.96 is actually next, although it does take you to your location after that. The trick is to see the comma after the nine, indicating to enter the numbers in the other order.
- christiangenco 14y agoAm I missing something? This looks identical to regular google maps: http://i.imgur.com/8gi8dfV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/8gi8dfV.jpg
- taf2 14y agojust incase it doesn't work for someone else, you need to be using the "classic" maps mode - if you are using opengl mode it will not work...
- maxmzd_ 14y agoFound it: http://goo.gl/maps/67c3y http://goo.gl/maps/67c3y
- evan_ 14y agoHere's the blog post about it: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2013/03/find-treasure-with-google-maps.html http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2013/03/find-treasure-wit...
- neilk 14y agoThe "pirate supply store" at 826 Valencia is a landmark. http://goo.gl/maps/1XBK4 http://goo.gl/maps/1XBK4 http://826valencia.org/store/ http://826valencia.org/store/
- Vlaix 14y agoWhen unzooming completely (using Opera), France and Great Britain are conjoined twins. And so on for Morocco and Spain, Denmark and Norway, Sicily and the rest of Italy... Now think about what History would have been...
- anonfunction 14y agoThis is neat and a great example of encouraging "p2p" marketing.
- ch0wn 14y agoFYI: this does not work if you have MapGL enabled. You just see the normal map.
- anemic 14y agoany thoughts how you would implement this? To apply the sepia filter to the street view images would double the storage used for all the images, which is huge! Alternatively to apply the sepia filter each time a image is loaded would add a lot of load to the servers, especially if the joke is spread around the world? So some kind of caching would be in place? Or is it done in browser with the flash plugin which would be the most boring option, but also the most plausible... (that would also explain why the webgl version does not work) The world map is just images at different zoom levels with an algorithm that adds trees, that would not be a problem I guess?
- thousande 14y agoSeems like it is implemented using Flash (right click on the street view image and you'll see the Flash context menu)
- blauwbilgorgel 14y agoIf you load a streetview you might see a split second of color, before the (flash) sepia filter gets added. If you turn on 3D mode (right mouse -> 3D mode on) the ring and dust/scratches remain, but the sepia filter is removed. If the maptype parameter is 8 (&t=8) assets get loaded from the "papermaps" directory: https://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/papermaps/ Instead of: https://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/ This way I found an image of the map controls that isn't implemented: https://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/papermaps/mapcontrols3d2.png Notice the squiggly lines and the streetview icon. The world map seems to be indeed just images. Compare: http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/mv/hpimgs6.png http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/papermaps/hpimgs.png
- nightpool 14y agoWasn't this from last year? I'm pretty sure I remember a similar programmatic map transformation at least...
- aj700 14y ago(Stomp Aberdeen.) Loch Ness. Monster on the map.
- v33ra 14y agoHere's Gangnam style: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=hong+kong&ll=37.504415,127.035427&spn=0.045961,0.104628&hnear=Hong+Kong&gl=us&t=8&z=14 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=hong+kong&ll=37.504415,12...
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- em- 14y agoSpoilers: There's a bunch of people collecting clues/locations together in this shared spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajc_VqH8uv38dFdnbnBhMlBLNjRMRmFISEFXNUFSMEE&usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajc_VqH8uv38dFd...
- matthieurouif 14y agoGuys, we have started a map with all the red end points. It's here http://bit.ly/123SO9w http://bit.ly/123SO9w . Feel free to had your end points . so far we have two medals, a ring, two guns/revolver, a rope, a snake, a compass. It seems that some object have the shape of their initial letter (snake = S, rope = R)
- sebastienr 14y agoJust added the gun in Brazil !
- matthieurouif 14y agoThanks a lot, we now have 8
- matsiyatzy 14y agoAll the letters together spell out "APRIL FOOLS"
- toxic_madness 14y agoThis might be a stupid question, but I don't see how to view or edit any marked end points on the map you linked to.
- matsiyatzy 14y agonice easter egg : following the "treasure hunt" leads to red letters spelling out "APRIL FOOLS". Along each of the trails leading to the red letters, there are also hidden letters that spell out "MMC-900913" (a reference to last years google maps april fools)
- pom 14y agoSo I found 2 red letters (C at -28.30,-57.30; M at 34.61,135.73), as well as three red signs (- sign at 35.11,-75.98, 9 at 76.50,-24.01, and 1 at 68.92,40.64) so there’s probably a super secret location given by the red coordinates but I don’t know what the letters mean.
- toxic_madness 14y agoSpoilers: Check out this communally gathered data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajc_VqH8uv38dFdnbnBhMlBLNjRMRmFISEFXNUFSMEE#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajc_VqH8uv38dFd... Apparently, all of the big red letters at the end of the trails spell out "APRIL FOOLS". The smaller red letters and numbers spell "MMC-900913", which is a reference to last year's 8-bit map. In this video, you can see MMC-900913 printed on the a controller chip at 29s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg&feature=youtu...
- benthere 14y agolook at this spot, or very, very close to it in satellite view - X Marks the spot.
- benthere 14y agoI followed the clues to here 50.62,-113.81 - just north of this spot, "X" marks the spot if you look using satellite view