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gohoos · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 33

I've been zooming into a few of the locations around the central virginia area that I know about where they are.

One is a Walmart.
One is a mall.
One is on the virginia beach strip.
One is in the Colonial williamsburg historical park.

Strange.

AFter the first two, I thought "Gee, I hope this isn't just a list of resellers of the game..." But the second two don't match.

It does seem that each point I've looked at is precisely on a road.

[edit]The closest points to Fredricksburg seem to be in Dale City... at Potomic mills. :/

Anyone else have Mappoint and want the files?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:19 am

asinine · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 11

the ones in san francisco are seriously only blocks from each other.
same with the ones in berkeley.

could be a network of infected hosts or ip routings.

ill check the close ones out after work for geocaches, if nothing else proves what these coords are.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:19 am

keybsnbits · Veteran Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 121

Solved:
38.8918, -77.0261 is the Smithsonian Institute. This is located in between the Capitol and the Washington monument on the Mall

Edit: btw, I have emailed the entity.

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Im planning on going to Potomac Mills soon, is it AT Potomac Mills?
(what are the potomac mills points?)

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:21 am

babbler · Boot Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 48

The seventh thing I noticed was that Texas was completely empty. There's a location at Fargo, fer heaven's sake, but nothing in Texas? Is this a political statement?

More seriously, perhaps we're meant to connect the dots, so to speak, between Dana's last message and this. Mayhaps we need to calculate the distance between each point tuple?

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Ok, here's a list of 220 places. I wrote a quick script to nick them off topozone.com.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:23 am

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Ok, here's the Chicago and suburbs thereof locations listed:

Two are on Clark Street between Diversey & Burling
(interesting that there are two on the same block!)

One is at Kinzie & Wabash

One is on Wacker Dr., near the crossunder of Quincy

Finally, there's one in Elmhurst (NW suburb about 20 mins away, and about 15 mins away from me) at the corner of George and York Road.

That's all the ones close enough to drive within an hour of Chicago or so...

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:24 am

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keybsnbits · Veteran Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 121

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:24 am

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**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:26 am

Giskard

At the top of the list of coordinates sits a smaller version of the timer, which kinda makes me think that IF anything is there to see, it will be there on august 24th, and not now...

Interpreting it storywise, it seems that the metastasizing meant that it looked for "points of interest" to duplicate itself to, the process of which will be finalized on august 24?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:26 am

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Marduk · Veteran Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 121 Location: Atlanta

33.7943 -84.3874 is in Atlanta literally 2 minutes from where I live and work, so it's possible that we're being mapped, but I'm sure there are more people in Atlanta than I that have emailed ladybee777SPLAThotmail.com.

Anyway, the coordinates point to the intersection of two fairly major roads in the city, or at least very nearby. I'll go check it out after work and find out what's really there.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:26 am

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Something that just hit me... there's a lot of mention of coordinates being in malls, stores, airports, etc. Could it be they are locations of public phones? That would be awesome... if all of them got a call on august 24 Smile

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:27 am

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gohoos · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 33

Something interesting...

It appears that only one point is not on land. It is off the california coast.

33.8669 -122.2588

Crash site?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:28 am

Anonymous Coward · Boot Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 39

Re: Map

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:29 am

prokat · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 13

[*edit: Disregard- PMs typo'd, 33 is now 37. Not in ocean. Have a nice day]

33.8669 -122.2588 is in the middle of the ocean.

As per my previous post, I've tried finding decent satellite images to confirm there isn't an island there.
Here's the link (i've left it untiny as you can alter the address to any coords you may want to see.)

http://www.terraserver.com/imagery/image_gx.asp?cpx=-122.2588&cpy=33.8669&res=1000&provider_id=350

Anyone live near there? Surprised