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Google Maps Meets Carmen Sandiego

Posted by Zonk on from the they-go-from-nashville-to-norway-down-there-to-zimbabwe dept.

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.

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  1. Google Earth games too by Lord+Satri · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  2. Re:What in the world by Celsius+233 · · Score: 3, Informative

    May I refer you to Wikipedia?

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  3. For those who are wondering .. by calvin1981 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Brewster Jennings and co. is a "real" company. The CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose cover was blown for political reasons, "worked" for Brewster Jennings.

  4. Re:Great by Trejkaz · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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