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Subject: Re: geoguessr.com link
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:27:43 -0700
From: Virginia R Hetrick PhD <[log in to unmask]>
To: Roger Wheate <[log in to unmask]>
CC: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


Hi, Roger with a copy to the list -

Thanks for your note.  Roger asked whether I've figured out scoring.
The only exceptionally high score for a single link that I've had so
far was 6169 points for being only 3.6km (2.2mi)off for a picture of
the Overseas Highway between the Florida Peninsula, for which I had a
potential of being over 204.8km (128mi) off.  (Like a dope, I put the
map pin actually on Marathon Key rather than on the bridge at one end
of the island or the other.)

So, the maximum number of points off must be some formula that takes
the shortest distance between two points, regardless of the direction.
  My guess is that it must be something like 6250 maximum points which
would be 100km  and do the proportions involved.  So far the greatest
number of points I've gotten on one 5 point game is 14090 and the
Overseas Highway was part of that game.  And I also got my lowest
score for one image (39 points) in that particular game.  ;~(

That's about all I can add at this point.


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Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
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"There is always hope."
My fave:  http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.jpg
There's no place like:  34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58' 5.36"
if you can't be at:  48N 7' 4.54" 122W 45' 50.95"
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