placeSpotting.com a Google Maps Mashup game/quiz

Now that the kids are out of school for summer, parents should have their child take a look at PlaceSpotting.com. Placespotting is a cool Google Maps Mashup game/quiz which is about finding places on a Google map. Recently placespotting.com has reached a milestone of 100,000 solved quizzes on their site which is quite an achievement.

The game started in Switzerland and has already more than 6637 different quizzes stored, 108208 quizzes solved and 926659 quizzes opened.

Check out this video put together by placeSpotting.com

Placespotting.com - A Google Maps Game

Placespotting is a cool Google Maps Mashup which is about finding places on a Google map.

You get a picture of a place somewhere on earth and have to find this place on a movable Google map. You can also create new "map-riddles" for your friends.

The game started in Switzerland and has already more than 5000 riddles stored and more than 500,000 people tried to solve a riddle.

Geography Quiz Google Maps Mashups

Here are couple of cool Google Maps Mashups which tests your World Geography Knowledge

World Geography Quiz: This quote from the website:

You'll be asked for the locations of various randomly selected national capitals and cities with a population over 100K. Pan and zoom (with the left mouse button and the on-map controls) then drag the marker to where you think it is. How far off you are will then be displayed.

TerraClues: Quoting TerraClues Website

TerraClues is a puzzle game where the objective is to find locations on the world map by solving a set of clues. Each time you solve a clue, the next clue will be unlocked until all clues have been solved. (via GoogleMapsMania)

Tallest Structure in the Southern Hemisphere - Quiz

A Decade ago today (March 3rd 1997) construction was completed on Sky Tower, considered to be Southern Hemisphere's tallest free standing structure at 328 meters. Where do you think this structure is located?

A. Sydney, Australia
B. Christ Church, New Zealand
C. Melbourne, Australia
D. Auckland, New Zealand

(View the answer in Google Maps)