Google earth racing game

See a recent example , and you can see all the issues of the newsletter here. You can try the quiz here a local copy, their link is broken at the moment. Geo Whiz — Yet another geography quiz game, this one is more interactive. It also uses the Google Earth plugin Windows only for now. Check it out. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product.

Frank completed a 5. As a result, we are not accepting new comments or questions about Google Earth. If I recall it was the First game to be made for Google Earth. When using video it is also clear when another racing car may have influenced the lap time, either by blocking or assisting progress. This is especially true when you are trying to find the last few tenths of a second and when maybe there is a choice of corner approaches, gears and good looking racing lines.

Data loggers do pretty much hold the answers but even when combined with the video, they still require knowledgable interpretation. It is also fairly slow plus many people, in my experience, are just not that comfortable translating squiggly lines into something meaningful they can put into action on the track.

What would be better is to have a way of presenting the more precision and detailed data logging data in a more easily digestible way. By having say lap time comparisons visualised more intuitively for people, it should enable racers to get more value from their data logger investments ensuring they become more than just expensive lap timers ….

A few years ago I was doing some work with a professional Le Mans race team. They had a wealthy owner-driver who was not comfortable with reading race data logging analysis charts. We, therefore, came up with an idea of presenting lap comparisons using a path displayed on Google Earth. Recently I saw a post someone had put on a racers Facebook group showing their paths around Google Earth.

Smarty Pins is a game developed by Google Engineers. The aim is to find out the answer to a question and pin point this location on the map. Map Race is a cool quiz game.

The idea behind it is to show you a satellite picture of a location and 4 answers. The task is to select a correct answer as soon as possible. MapsTD is a tower defence game that uses Google Maps to generate levels from any location across the world. Your task is to defend your castle from attackers by strategically placing and managing your defense towers.

It let users construct anything they can imagine with virtual LEGOs, place it on Google Maps, and share their creations with the world. As the name suggests, only works in the Chrome browser. Geo Guns is a tank shooting game. It overlays a couple of tanks on the satellite image. Tanks of enemy are starting to attack you from the top.

Your task is to destroy them. You can choose from a number of pre-set battlefield locations for your tank fight but you can also select any location by entering location on the top of the screen. Locate Street is a StreetView-based game. It gives you a series of random Street View panoramas.

Your task is to figure out the location of every image and choose a correct quiz answer. The game is about navigating a ball on a 3D Google Maps cube, avoiding the 3D buildings and other obstructions, by rotating the cube. This 2D Driving Simulator is an experiment rather than an actual game. You can driver around the city with a car or a bus, the only problem is that it does not encounters any obstacles so in practice you can glide over everything on the map.

Nonetheless I found it quite entertaining. Aleks, Nice article and website.