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MapCrunch[1] is a website that allows users to be virtually transported to a randomly selected Google Street View location. It has inspired a participatory web game in which the player must find their way to an airport from a spawned location.

History

Google Street View is a service that features photographs of various locations around the world that are taken by a fleet of cars with mounted panoramic cameras. In available locations, Google Maps and Google Earth users can select a specific street location to view it as if they were in a vehicle on the road. The service was launched on May 25th, 2007 and the coverage area was initially limited to street views from select cities within the United States.

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The website MapCrunch was launched on September 25th, 2010. The @MapCrunch Twitter[13] account was created on September 26th, 2010 and accumulated over 1,800 followers within 17 months. On October 23rd, 2010, a link to the site was submitted to the /r/technology[10] subreddit by user balotz, who claimed that the site was his creation. The post received 811 up votes prior to being archived.

[-] balotz [S] 69 points 1 year ago* Disclaimer: this is my site. It's not the first of its kind but it has (imho) interesting features! permalink

On October 26th, 2010, TechCrunch[6] published an article about the site, comparing it to a combination of Chatroulette and Google Street View. On November 3rd, an article about the site was published to the tech blog Download Squad[12] which lauded the site's ability to discover interesting places that had been photographed by Google Street View. As of February 20th, 2012, the official MapCrunch Facebook[5] page has accumulated 4,573 likes.

The Game

The MapCrunch game requires that players pretend to have woken in an unknown place and must find their way home again by coming across an airport. Due to the fact that the initial location chosen is random, the game has proven to be notoriously frustrating and time consuming.

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The earliest archived mention of the game comes from an archived 4chan thread in the /v/ (video games)[11] board on March 6th, 2011. A Wiki[2] for the game was created on February 16th, 2012.

File :1299447869854.ipg-(150 KB, 843x770, map4.jpg) Anonymous 03/06/11(Sun)16:44 No.88685925 1. go to www.mapcrunch.com 2. Select your country on the right 3. Check "hide location" and "cities only" on the right 4. Press "N 5. Find the nearest airport so you can fly home CANT FIND YOUR WAY HOME? YOU DONT KNOW S--- ABOUT VIDYA Unoffical /v/ Playlist: Marty Robbins - Big Iron Working Men - Land Down Under America - Horse With No Name Rush - Fly by Night Paul Stanley - Live to Win

The game saw a surge in popularity from Tumblr when players began writing about their experiences and uploading pictures from their searches. The site's popularity on Tumblr started with a post by Tumblr user Epochayur on the 18th February 2012, in which he invited Tumblr users to play the game and described the rules[14]. As of 22 February 2012, the post has over 53,000 notes on Tumblr .On February 19th, 2012, the MapCrunch site had to switch servers due to a massive influx of referral traffic coming from Tumblr.


The /r/mapcrunch[4] subreddit dedicated to the game was created on February 20th, 2012.

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY FIND AN AIRPORT memegenerator.net
FIND THE AIRPORT,THEY SAID IT'LL BE FUN, THEYSAID quickmeme.com
WHAT IF THE AIRPORT WAS RIGHT BEHIND US FROM THE VERY BEGINNING ANDWE WENT FARTHER AWAY FROMIIT WITH EACH CLICK quickmeme.com

Features

In addition to teleporting users to a randomly selected Google Street View location, the service also includes a gallery with some of the more interesting locations found by the community. Users can also share these locations with others with a unique MapCrunch URL.

About Explore the world via Google Street View. MapCrunch teleports you to a random place in the world. It allows you to e captured by Google in over 27 countries, featuring spectacular scenery, magical moments and the utterly unexplainable. The best views are added to the Gallery every day-be sure to check it out! How to use To get started, simply click the green "GO" button to be teleported to a random place in the world. If you only want to see certain countries, select them on the right hand panel → Click the "myMap" option (top-right of side panel) to choose your own area - this will only show images within the map that appears. For example, if you only want views from Tokyo, move and zoom the map so that you only see Tokyo city (or search for "Tokyo"), then click "GO'T Questions? Comments? Something broken? You can find MapCrunch on Twitter and Facebook, or you A非 can contact me via email at nick@mapcrunch.com.

Traffic

As of February 2012, the site has a Compete[7] rank of 889,112, an an Alexa[8] rank of 330,546 and Quantcast does not yet have enough information to provide traffic estimates.

Highlights

Google Street View photos that have been discovered using the services can be added to the site's gallery and the more bizarre images are often shared on sites like Reddit, 4chan and Tumblr.

counthourglass reblogged triffuful 1,165 notes reblog High-res → endeerinaly: what is happening here, and how horrified do you think i should be? Source: endeeringly
NOT 4,756 notes reblog radiolocked reblogged the-final-horcrux High-res → ightlockswing What the heck did I just run across. .and do they know where the airport is?? Source: nightlockswing #HOW DO PEOPLE FIND THESE!? #mapcrunch
dodostad reblogged owlpellets 178 notes reblog owlpellets no stop turn back while you still can #mapcrunch #reblog
111 Next image IKI Previous image View of the day - discovered by Anonymous THE KINGS
http://www.mapcrunch.com/ ELike (X Follow Home Gallery About MapCrunch Random Google Street View Gol
MapCrunch BRAIN TRAINING GAMESs

Search Interest

Search query volume for "mapcrunch" had a large spike in November of 2010, following the blog coverage a month prior.

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MapCrunch » Random Google Street View

About

MapCrunch[1] is a website that allows users to be virtually transported to a randomly selected Google Street View location. It has inspired a participatory web game in which the player must find their way to an airport from a spawned location.

History

Google Street View is a service that features photographs of various locations around the world that are taken by a fleet of cars with mounted panoramic cameras. In available locations, Google Maps and Google Earth users can select a specific street location to view it as if they were in a vehicle on the road. The service was launched on May 25th, 2007 and the coverage area was initially limited to street views from select cities within the United States.


Google

The website MapCrunch was launched on September 25th, 2010. The @MapCrunch Twitter[13] account was created on September 26th, 2010 and accumulated over 1,800 followers within 17 months. On October 23rd, 2010, a link to the site was submitted to the /r/technology[10] subreddit by user balotz, who claimed that the site was his creation. The post received 811 up votes prior to being archived.


[-] balotz [S] 69 points 1 year ago* Disclaimer: this is my site. It's not the first of its kind but it has (imho) interesting features! permalink

On October 26th, 2010, TechCrunch[6] published an article about the site, comparing it to a combination of Chatroulette and Google Street View. On November 3rd, an article about the site was published to the tech blog Download Squad[12] which lauded the site's ability to discover interesting places that had been photographed by Google Street View. As of February 20th, 2012, the official MapCrunch Facebook[5] page has accumulated 4,573 likes.

The Game

The MapCrunch game requires that players pretend to have woken in an unknown place and must find their way home again by coming across an airport. Due to the fact that the initial location chosen is random, the game has proven to be notoriously frustrating and time consuming.

[This video has been removed]

The earliest archived mention of the game comes from an archived 4chan thread in the /v/ (video games)[11] board on March 6th, 2011. A Wiki[2] for the game was created on February 16th, 2012.


File :1299447869854.ipg-(150 KB, 843x770, map4.jpg) Anonymous 03/06/11(Sun)16:44 No.88685925 1. go to www.mapcrunch.com 2. Select your country on the right 3. Check "hide location" and "cities only" on the right 4. Press "N 5. Find the nearest airport so you can fly home CANT FIND YOUR WAY HOME? YOU DONT KNOW S--- ABOUT VIDYA Unoffical /v/ Playlist: Marty Robbins - Big Iron Working Men - Land Down Under America - Horse With No Name Rush - Fly by Night Paul Stanley - Live to Win

The game saw a surge in popularity from Tumblr when players began writing about their experiences and uploading pictures from their searches. The site's popularity on Tumblr started with a post by Tumblr user Epochayur on the 18th February 2012, in which he invited Tumblr users to play the game and described the rules[14]. As of 22 February 2012, the post has over 53,000 notes on Tumblr .On February 19th, 2012, the MapCrunch site had to switch servers due to a massive influx of referral traffic coming from Tumblr.


The /r/mapcrunch[4] subreddit dedicated to the game was created on February 20th, 2012.


ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY FIND AN AIRPORT memegenerator.net FIND THE AIRPORT,THEY SAID IT'LL BE FUN, THEYSAID quickmeme.com WHAT IF THE AIRPORT WAS RIGHT BEHIND US FROM THE VERY BEGINNING ANDWE WENT FARTHER AWAY FROMIIT WITH EACH CLICK quickmeme.com

Features

In addition to teleporting users to a randomly selected Google Street View location, the service also includes a gallery with some of the more interesting locations found by the community. Users can also share these locations with others with a unique MapCrunch URL.


About Explore the world via Google Street View. MapCrunch teleports you to a random place in the world. It allows you to e captured by Google in over 27 countries, featuring spectacular scenery, magical moments and the utterly unexplainable. The best views are added to the Gallery every day-be sure to check it out! How to use To get started, simply click the green "GO" button to be teleported to a random place in the world. If you only want to see certain countries, select them on the right hand panel → Click the "myMap" option (top-right of side panel) to choose your own area - this will only show images within the map that appears. For example, if you only want views from Tokyo, move and zoom the map so that you only see Tokyo city (or search for "Tokyo"), then click "GO'T Questions? Comments? Something broken? You can find MapCrunch on Twitter and Facebook, or you A非 can contact me via email at nick@mapcrunch.com.

Traffic

As of February 2012, the site has a Compete[7] rank of 889,112, an an Alexa[8] rank of 330,546 and Quantcast does not yet have enough information to provide traffic estimates.

Highlights

Google Street View photos that have been discovered using the services can be added to the site's gallery and the more bizarre images are often shared on sites like Reddit, 4chan and Tumblr.


counthourglass reblogged triffuful 1,165 notes reblog High-res → endeerinaly: what is happening here, and how horrified do you think i should be? Source: endeeringly NOT 4,756 notes reblog radiolocked reblogged the-final-horcrux High-res → ightlockswing What the heck did I just run across. .and do they know where the airport is?? Source: nightlockswing #HOW DO PEOPLE FIND THESE!? #mapcrunch dodostad reblogged owlpellets 178 notes reblog owlpellets no stop turn back while you still can #mapcrunch #reblog 111 Next image IKI Previous image View of the day - discovered by Anonymous THE KINGS http://www.mapcrunch.com/ ELike (X Follow Home Gallery About MapCrunch Random Google Street View Gol MapCrunch BRAIN TRAINING GAMESs

Search Interest

Search query volume for "mapcrunch" had a large spike in November of 2010, following the blog coverage a month prior.

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