Thanks to all who have submitted locations! Paul and I have decided to run a series rather than one post with 15 to 20 locations.
Where On Google Earth has been around for close to 17 years since Contest #1 back on February 12, 2008. Players from many countries have travelled the world on a weekly basis, and for upcoming Contest #900, we would like to offer up a series full of locations close to your various homes.
Comment on this post to send us a hint and location near you – we don’t want difficult ones, but ones that show players where others live. Over the past ten years, Paul and I have had the opportunity to reach out to some and got to know a few of you via email. It’s been a delight to act as hosts.
Points as usual, with a twist:
– 2 for correct responses before the hint
– 1 for correct responses after the hint
– a bonus point if you can guess who submitted the location
Hi guys.
This is fairly easy but it is the nearest interesting place to my home that is visible from high above.
Nagytétény Kastélymúzeum (Castle Museum)
47°23’26.50″N 18°59’13.85″E
I’m in St. Louis (well, a suburb). Some ideas:
City Museum: https://www.google.com/maps/place/City+Museum/@38.6334578,-90.2009724,172m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x87d8b33dc2801e55:0xc97c4420308aca04!8m2!3d38.6336745!4d-90.2006976!16zL20vMGRkZG41
The Gateway Arch:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Gateway+Arch/@38.6248811,-90.1868139,390m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x87c0f0607541e5b5:0x79ed2889c696a834!8m2!3d38.6251269!4d-90.1867504!16s%2Fm%2F03w818l
Anheuser-Busch Brewery:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Anheuser-Busch+St.+Louis+Brewery/@38.5983876,-90.2140284,317m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x87d8b391032e5d43:0x686ba289f592bf6b!8m2!3d38.5992699!4d-90.2144318!16s%2Fm%2F047qnfg
Laumeier Sculpture Park:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Laumeier+Sculpture+Park/@38.5481765,-90.4158157,276m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x87d8ce61915ecb1f:0xc3f1c1ba311a9273!8m2!3d38.5509311!4d-90.4150968!16zL20vMGcwNTlj
Piasa Bird:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Piasa+Bird,+Wise+St,+Alton,+IL+62002/@38.8979275,-90.199504,142m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x87df44712586576d:0x62f15a043717e7bd!8m2!3d38.8981839!4d-90.1991588!16zL20vMDVkcmh4
Monk’s Mound at Cahokia Mounds:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Monks+Mound/@38.6602739,-90.0635581,424m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x87df54b1228bc63d:0x71567b45b1df3740!8m2!3d38.6601576!4d-90.062466!16zL20vMDR3bmN4
Awesome idea 🙂
Mine is this:
54°54’50″N 1°35’22″W
54.91413685070111, -1.589486816926794
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_North
Which is the Angel of The North, a 66ft tall public art sculpture by Anthony Gormley, and a really iconic landmark for the North East of England It’s also where I proposed to my fiancee. My house is approx 1/2 a mile to the South of it.
Hint would be: “Known colloquially as ‘the rusty fairy’ with a wingspan of 66ft.”
cheers, and thanks a lot for keeping this running for so long
I’ll go with Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. Hint is that the lighthouse used to house a post office. Follow up: post office closed in 2009.
Hello Paul, Andrew,
Happy to accept your invitation to provide a location of a place near where I live.
But first I would like to thank you both for your commitment, all these years, to provide us with an enjoyable pastime. Since I was infected with the ‘woge virus’ by my friend, Paul Voestermans, I look forward to the new challenge every Friday evening. I really appreciate your commitment!
You ask for a not too difficult location, close to where we live. In my case, I choose the city of Roermond (The Netherlands), a place where I was born, where I lived most of my life and where I worked for the municipality of Roermond for almost 50 years. I am now retired, and have been living for several years in the village, Melick, adjacent to Roermond.
A cutout of the Roermond location shows the old center, recognizable by a ring of girders where the city walls used to be. West of it runs the small river Roer, which flows into the river Maas. North of the city center is the McArthurGlenn outlet center. I think all this provides enough clues to find the place on GE. As a hint, the city used to be part of the Hanseatic League (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League).
I wish you all the best, and hope you keep us busy for a long time!
Kind regards,
Martin de Bock
ps: I can’t post images here, so maybe I should email the image to one of you? I did describe the cutout I intended above.
51°24’14.9″N 5°24’59.9″E
It’s ASML Global HQ in Veldhoven, The Netherlands, close to where I live (Bladel, The Netherlands).
51°26’36.0″N 5°26’49.3″E
The Evoluon in Eindhoven is also an interesting building.
WOGE 900
by krenek (kernitouATgmail.com)
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image #1
link image jpg = https://i.postimg.cc/QMTtg15k/WOGE-900-image-1-by-krenek.jpg
what’s that =
– [DE] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alte_Rheinbr%C3%BCcke_Vaduz%E2%80%93Sevelen
– [EN] https://schweizmobil.ch/en/place-of-interest-37-wooden-bridge-and-rhein-at-sevelen
name = Wooden bridge Vaduz–Sevelen, border Switzerland/Liechtenstein, near the town of Vaduz/Liechtenstein
coordinates = 47.132413° 9.511764° OR 47°7’56.69″N 9°30’42.35″E
RISable? = not found by lens, bing or yandex so far
has not been used in WOGE afaik
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image #2
link image jpg = https://i.postimg.cc/sXgLd9c5/WOGE-900-image-2-by-krenek.jpg
what’s that =
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Chair
name = Broken chair by artist Daniel Berset, place des Nations, near the UNO, Geneva, Switzerland
coordinates = 46.222831° 6.138874° OR 46°13’22.19″N 6°8’19.89″E
RISable? = not found by lens, bing or yandex so far
has not been used in WOGE afaik
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for both picture, do you need a (short; 2-3 lines) text by me for the answer?
take care stay safe – k.
i hope everyone is in good health, take care stay safe
k.
Great idea to celebrate this new milestone in this way! For a few of the fellow contenders I know where about they are living, but not all of you. I am excited to find out where about you all are clinched to your screens on Friday night. 🙂
This is the location I’m submitting that is close to where I live:
Tamul Waterfall
https://maps.app.goo.gl/r6JAcoiopKjdW3ND6
HINT:
With over a hundred meters of height it is the tallest in the state. It’s a must-visit place in the area.
By location do you mean coordinates or photo?
SETHANI GHAT, Narmdapuram, M.P, India
One of the biggest bathing ghats in central India.
Easy hint – one the major ghats in central india
Moderate hint – Namami Devi Narmade
SETHANI GHAT, Narmdapuram, M.P, India
One of the biggest bathing ghats in central India.
Easy hint – one the major ghats in central india
Moderate hint – Namami Devi Narmade
https://youtu.be/FLd6I5Kz_Dc?si=AqJ5d_LsJmEVBH8J
https://youtu.be/5Os0pMFknx0?si=Fp69jTBXA6uUzE5_
location:
Hotel-Residence Klosterpforte
51.94702041487496, 8.280516103025132
Hint:
It’s in the near of a monastery which is responsible for the name.
It is well known as football camp and high-class lodging for national football teams during championships
Waldwipfelweg (treetop path) and House on the Head in the Bavarian Forest
49°00’40.01″ N 12°46’57.14″ E
Forest park with a treetop walk, animals, an upside down house & a cave with optical illusions
Once you reach the top of the 52m high platform, you can expect a gigantic view, and not just to the south. Here you can even get a panoramic view of the Bavarian Forest
HINT: It is up to 52 meters high and up to 26 meters wide in diameter
Baumwipfelpfad (treetop path) in the National Park Bavarian Forest
48°53’25.18″ N 13°29’10.73″ E
The Bavarian Forest Treetop Walk is a 1,300 meter long treetop walk in the municipality of Neuschönau in the Bavarian Forest National Park
A special attraction is the 44 meter high observation tower called the tree tower in the shape of an egg. The way up is via a 520 meter high ramp.
The path is designed to be barrier-free and only has a maximum gradient of 6%. The observation tower is also barrier-free up to 40 meters; only the last 4 meters have to be climbed from a platform via stairs
HINT: An egg with a height of 25 m
AIRBUS Defence & Space Manching
Military Airport
System Support Center for Eurofighter
48°42’50.98″ N 11°32’03.71″ E
The Airbus Defense and Space competence center for military flight systems is located in Manching. The site houses the Eurofighter program, including final assembly, system testing and flight testing for the Bundeswehr. In addition, all other aircraft in use for the Air Force and Navy as well as those in the NATO AWACS fleet are maintained and system-technically supported in Manching
Approximately 5,000 employees and over 180 trainees and dual students work at the Manching military aviation center, the largest Airbus Defense and Space location in the world
HINT : all aircraft in use for the Air Force and Navy as well as those in the NATO AWACS fleet are maintained and system-technically supported here
Dinosaur Park Altmühltal
48°57’09.48″ N 11°28’08.66″ E
An exciting journey through the geological eras – from the Cretaceous to the New Era – and passes through four hundred million years of evolutionary history
HINT: back to the Cretaceous period
Currently, I’m living in Móstoles, not far from Madrid. I think there is not a enough distinct zone, but this coordinates point to the hospital and campus of the University Rey Juan Carlos., may be that fills the purpose.
40°20’18.56″N — 3°52’18.25″W
Hint for ASML HQ could be:
Worldleader in machines for the increasingly small and fast.
For Evoluon:
Exhibiton Center for technical innovation built by a globally active company which started as lightbulb producer.
Am I too late?
I thought the “Historic Wurstkuchl” in Regensburg would be something nice.
49° 1’15.32″N 12° 5’51.16″E
Hint: Could be seen as one of the first fast food stalls still in existence today.
Thanks for all your efforts to create the good contests!
48°49’28″N 2°18’11″E
HINT : Magic? It’s gone !
The INSEE tower was located in the town of Malakoff, just across the boulevard périphérique (ring road) from Paris. Built in 1974, the building housed the headquarters of the French national statistics institute (INSEE) between 1975 and 2018.
The tower was a thirteen-storey, forty-eight-metre high, with a tripod-shaped structure covering an area of 32,000 m2. A few years ago, the French government decided to demolish the tower… to build in its place a brand new building of almost the same height and surface area! A project already well advanced (the tower has now been completely razed to the ground) and described by many opponents as an “ecological and financial aberration”.
So the next time the Google Earth satellite passes over this spot, the tower will be gone!
Wikipedia picture of the INSEE Tower: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_INSEE
Photo during the destruction (Photo Caroline Paux/Hans Lucas): https://focus.telerama.fr/2024/02/19/0/0/4724/3149/1200/0/60/0/4a328bc_1708350975298-hanslucas-hl-cpaux-2231348.jpg
Photo with no more Tower : https://www.leparisien.fr/hauts-de-seine-92/une-page-qui-se-tourne-la-tour-de-linsee-a-presque-disparu-du-paysage-a-malakoff-12-06-2024-2OB3CZFPYBGRLIX436TLDQVC2E.php
Personal message for the administrators: thank you for your work, I don’t participate very regularly but my first participation dates back to 2011 with the location of Apple headquarters in Palo Alto, California, USA (with the nickname Cieye 😉