FOLLOW THAT TRAIL
A game using GoogleMaps
Invented in August 2020 by Laura Anne Seabrook
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Pick an arbitrary location in Google Maps, and go to street view.
Use the arrow keys, mouse or finger to move along the streets in street view. Each time you move down a street in the same direction (or in one that continues on in case of an intersection) is called a Frame.
Try and find a vehicle that appears to be immediately in front of you in one Frame, and in the NEXT Frame. This is a "Followed Vehicle".
Follow that vehicle by moving down the road and counting the number of consecutive Frames followed. A followed vehicle can disappear on a single frame of a follow, but if it fails to reappear on the next Frame, it's considered LOST at the last Frame of sighting and that's the end of the trail. The length of a trail is the number of frames in trail before it's lost.
Go back to the Frame where you started the trail. Use the Google Maps Share option to SHARE the start location and length of the trail on social media.
The WINNER is the player who's trailed a vehicle for the highest number of Frames.
FOLLOW THAT TRAIL
A game using GoogleMaps
Invented in August 2020 by Laura Anne Seabrook
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Pick an arbitrary location in Google Maps, and go to street view.
Use the arrow keys, mouse or finger to move along the streets in street view. Each time you move down a street in the same direction (or in one that continues on in case of an intersection) is called a Frame.
Try and find a vehicle that appears to be immediately in front of you in one Frame, and in the NEXT Frame. This is a "Followed Vehicle".
Follow that vehicle by moving down the road and counting the number of consecutive Frames followed. A followed vehicle can disappear on a single frame of a follow, but if it fails to reappear on the next Frame, it's considered LOST at the last Frame of sighting and that's the end of the trail. The length of a trail is the number of frames in trail before it's lost.
Go back to the Frame where you started the trail. Use the Google Maps Share option to SHARE the start location and length of the trail on social media.
The WINNER is the player who's trailed a vehicle for the highest number of Frames.