-------- Original Message -------- 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. ------------------------------------------------- Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California Email: [log in to unmask] "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" ------------------------------------------------