Place Spotting
http://www.placespotting.com/solve.php
This is fun but annoying - you are presented with an image (google earth image) and given a few hints then told to find it. This is worthwhile looking at and it makes for an interesting exercise with our students. Get the students to create the puzzles and then send them to their classmates. Great if you are studying a specific country or perhaps for historical events and locations.
Another good find from Larry
March 1st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
[...] link on WVSKPhillips Domain’s Blog and it links very nicely with another post from today - Place spotting - this is a clue based geography game that also use Google maps in the mash [...]