wcaclimbing wrote:I win!
Is Lack at the house found on Route Nationale 98 at the coordinates 43°20'50.82"N 6°42'55.45"E?
I can't find the specific street address for you, because I don't know how to get street addresses from Google maps, but here is the house on Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=43%C2%B020%2750.82%22N+++6%C2%B042%2755.45%22E&sll=43.347585,6.715122&sspn=0.000917,0.002642&ie=UTF8&ll=43.347447,6.715337&spn=0.000909,0.002642&t=h&z=19
And a big picture to provide some extra detail, if you want that too:
- Click image to enlarge.
To find this, I just made a bunch of educated guesses that got me very close.
1. In all of the street view pictures I saw on google maps, any ones where the sun was in the center of the picture had solid white sky and very bright white water, because the sun would overexpose all the pictures. The sun was also found in the South for every picture I saw. Because the picture we were given had regular colored water but was still sunny, that meant that the house we were looking for was not facing south, but had water to the East of it, so the picture would look like the example we were given. This meant I could rule out any south-facing coastline.
2. I made the assumption that all of the pictures taken in a small area would have been taken at roughly the same time, meaning that the skies would be very, very similar in all the pictures taken in a given area. This meant I could spread out a lot, and pick random streetviews and look for ones with similar cloud cover to what is in Lack's picture, and Lack would certainly nearby. I went through some of the eastern-facing areas looking for skies that had roughly the same cloud cover as our example picture. I was able to find some streetview pictures that had skies that matched our example.
3. I was looking in neighboring street views to try and find the correct one, and I found a cloud formation that was the same across many of the pictures and matched the clouds behind Lack's picture. This told me what direction the camera would be pointing in when it took Lack's picture, and help confirm that I was searching in the right area.
4. The correct house was about 100m down the road from where I was in step 3 from this process.
All in all, it took about an hour.
Please put up another one of these games. This is too much fun!
Congratulations! Also many thanks for the detailed explanation of your deduction process, this will no doubt assist others and make the next game more challenging!
Now I just have to find another member with a cartoon character avatar...
