Satellite Challenge 1

I’m going to guess Van Buren Station in Grant Park

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I found it (without even walking down there): 41.869355, -87.622882

You can even see the dumpsters in the pic!

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Wow! you even linked with the Latitude and Longitude coordinates! Bravo!!

Really, excellent job. That was not an easy task.

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This is extremely close but not quite right.

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Not the first answer, I see now, but I found it, too:
41.86937, -87.62291

The train tracks + park made for an easy place to start looking. Found it within 3 minutes.

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Yeah well I also solved the financial crisis while I was looking, so it took a little longer.

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Actually, I think my coordinates are closer. From the photo, you can tell that the actual position is west of the black chain-link fence. Jocelyn’s position is just east of that fence.

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Whew. Good work on that. Thanks.

I pretty much did nothing. But I’m a slacker.

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It does appear that Jocelyn mismarked the location on the wrong side of the fence. But given a circumference of the Earth of about 24,900 miles. Her 10 foot error results in about a 0.000007% error.

I think that’s just about within my tolerance of acceptance.

Gotta give it to you though Patrick, your a stickler for details. We’ll toss a dozen mikedidonato.com points your way too.

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Also I linked to the GMap image. +50 Mike D points.

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Certainly true. I didn’t link.

On a somewhat related note… did you know that the US-Canada border (at least some parts in WA) is off by about 200 feet? The Oregon Treaty of 1846 (and earlier Treaty of Paris in 1783) said that the border would be the 49th parallel, but when they surveyed and marked the border, it’s a bit off.

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I have no clue how to figure any of this out.

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