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Google Maps Meets Carmen Sandiego
Craig Miller writes "What better way to end the weekend than by playing a game of Brewster Jennings Protects America? This new game is a Google Maps mashup with the classic 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego' style of game. Run around the world trying to stop a terrorist from carrying an attack. Pretty amusing game and it shows what you can do with the Google Maps API and a little imagination." Despite the jingoistic title and concept it's a lot of fun, and quite challenging on hard.
Ok so NASA World Wind gets high resolution terrain mapped Moon data, lots of people submit the article to /. all get rejected, someone makes a game for google and /. say "WOW OMFG how cool we mustwrite an article"
OgleEarth points to three games involving GoogleEarth, Earth Contest, GoogleEarthing and GEwar. Taken from http://industry.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 0/07/134251
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Update (Oct 30, 2005): Oh crap, here comes the Slashdotting.. The server probably won't be able to take the beating so if the game doesn't work now bookmark us and return in a few days time. Sorry! - Craig
This is from BrewsterJennings.com.
May I refer you to Wikipedia?
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It was an early series of educational computer games for youngsters in which they had to figure out (with the help of an included encyclopaedia) clues in order to locate master criminal Carmen Sandiago.
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Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
Brewster Jennings and co. is a "real" company. The CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose cover was blown for political reasons, "worked" for Brewster Jennings.
Because it will get people to look at it... ? I think that's the point, server crash or not. People will still come back later out of curiosity, and he'll get the publicity he wants.
Actually, dipshit, the Minutemen are 1) sitting on private property with the consent of the owners, 2) observing, and 3) contacting the border patrol upon sighting illegal border crossers. In fact they've even dismissed volunteers who show up with indications of an itchy trigger finger. The Minutemen are accused of a lot of things, mainly by those with an ethnic axe to grind who don't want to see our immigration laws enforced. Got any actual proof? No? That's what I thought.
If the Minutemen are vigilantes, then so is your neighbor down the street who calls the cops because he sees somebody stealing your car.
Well, once you find out the place you need to go to, you're up for a lot of zooming and dragging to pinpoint it. It would be much better (more like a quiz and less like a pixel hunting exercise) if they had a text field so that you could put the location you want in and it zoomed straight to it.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
if you search google for where in the world is carmen sandiego it tells you she's in cairo, egypt.
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
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