During my recent
Karos Health trip to Chicago for RSNA, I accidentally discovered a fun game to play using my iPhone and
Google Street View. On this and previous trips I’ve emailed photos to my son to show him some of the sights that I see. Often the pictures are taken while traveling from one location to another.
On this Chicago trip, my son noted in an email that one of the pictures I sent was similar to one that I had sent him during last year’s trip. I responded that it was probably the exact same view, as I would have taken both pictures while riding a bus between our hotel and the conference site. The next day he sent me an email showing me that he had found a similar picture on Google Street View.
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My Picture |
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Street View Picture |
And thus, a new (for us, anyway) game was born.
Every day for the remainder of the trip I sent him a new photo, and he found corresponding shots in Street View for all of them. At first, I included clues in my emails, but eventually stopped and just let him discover clues in the the photos themselves. He didn’t have any trouble.
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My Picture |
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Street View Picture |
This turned out to be something that makes a business trip more interesting for my family. We might even continue the game here in Waterloo.
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