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Author Topic: Find the album cover location (and win!)  (Read 48217 times)

Offlinequizzaciously

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #120 on: November 30, 2018, 10:00:44 PM »
Obviously they can't announce the winner by name, because he or she can get in trouble, but they should try to do at least something.

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #121 on: November 30, 2018, 10:02:47 PM »

Guess Mark's answer to the question "How you started playing the guitar" and the prize is a vintage family radio.

LOL

Condition of radio: as is
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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #122 on: December 01, 2018, 11:09:25 AM »
Anyone has receive an email yet?   :think

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #123 on: December 01, 2018, 11:52:47 AM »
Contest is closed

So, here it is:

It's the 121 Dixie Valley Road, close to Lincoln Highway (were you get the 3 km distance)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_State_Route_121#/media/File:2015-04-02_15_18_31_View_north_from_the_south_end_of_Nevada_State_Route_121_(Dixie_Valley_Road)_in_Churchill_County,_Nevada.JPG

Look at this video, at 1.05  ;)



The tricky part is that streetview doesn't work on this road, but only on the main road (highway 50, lincoln highway). You can set streetview on the intersection and you get the view 'you were looking for' below  ;)
The video above starts at this intersection and drives into this road.

The funny part is that you can choose the exact spot (video at 1.05 - 1.07) according to this video, but that the answer says 'still 2km away' (so they havent got the right coordinates).  So when you put your spot a little further up on the 121 road, you will hit the 0km spot, but it isn't the actual photo spot  :-\

Great video find! If you go to about 1.45-1.46 you can see the marker posts either side of the road and that 'H' shaped thing over to the right. I wonder how many of us will actually visit that place now. I love doing things like that.

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #124 on: December 01, 2018, 11:58:26 AM »
Anyone has receive an email yet?   :think

Nope I checked mails several times yesterday evening, I have no hope now of winning.

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #125 on: December 04, 2018, 10:53:45 AM »
How weird, they don't announce anything... No one here or on Facebook claimed to win anything...
The only thing they say is that the competition is closed...https://united-agency-server.co.uk/markknopfler/roadwherever/

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #126 on: December 04, 2018, 11:58:03 AM »
How weird, they don't announce anything... No one here or on Facebook claimed to win anything...
The only thing they say is that the competition is closed...https://united-agency-server.co.uk/markknopfler/roadwherever/

Maybe a risk putting winning names out in public, who knows if some are really desperate to get a signed boxset, i don't know... Guess it's for security and privacy reasons...

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #127 on: December 04, 2018, 12:21:21 PM »
Maybe a risk putting winning names out in public, who knows if some are really desperate to get a signed boxset, i don't know... Guess it's for security and privacy reasons...

Been silent give doubts...

They could give the answer and say winners are John M..., Glen, W..., Richard B...  etc...
Congratulations something... blabla



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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #128 on: December 04, 2018, 12:59:38 PM »
Maybe a risk putting winning names out in public, who knows if some are really desperate to get a signed boxset, i don't know... Guess it's for security and privacy reasons...

Been silent give doubts...

They could give the answer and say winners are John M..., Glen, W..., Richard B...  etc...
Congratulations something... blabla

If they declared these names the winners there would be some doubts!    :lol
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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #129 on: December 04, 2018, 01:02:48 PM »
Maybe a risk putting winning names out in public, who knows if some are really desperate to get a signed boxset, i don't know... Guess it's for security and privacy reasons...

Been silent give doubts...

They could give the answer and say winners are John M..., Glen, W..., Richard B...  etc...
Congratulations something... blabla

If they declared these names the winners there would be some doubts!    :lol

I'd say John McCarthy, Glen Worcester and Richard Bennetter would beg to differ.
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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #130 on: December 04, 2018, 01:05:16 PM »
Well it just can't end like this...

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #131 on: December 04, 2018, 01:08:23 PM »
Maybe a risk putting winning names out in public, who knows if some are really desperate to get a signed boxset, i don't know... Guess it's for security and privacy reasons...

Been silent give doubts...

They could give the answer and say winners are John M..., Glen, W..., Richard B...  etc...
Congratulations something... blabla

If they declared these names the winners there would be some doubts!    :lol

I'd say John McCarthy, Glen Worcester and Richard Bennetter would beg to differ.

 :lol :lol

My mistake.  :smack
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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #132 on: December 04, 2018, 01:11:19 PM »
Well it just can't end like this...

I just tried once and found it boring so I can't remember the terms.  Did it not say winners would be contacted by e-mail or something?  No need to name them publicly then.
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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #133 on: December 04, 2018, 01:53:00 PM »
Well it just can't end like this...

I just tried once and found it boring so I can't remember the terms.  Did it not say winners would be contacted by e-mail or something?  No need to name them publicly then.

They wouldn't even give the "right" answer for people, so it can't end just like that. What it should end like is this:
The location is here, the photo was taken by X in 201X year, and the closest winner was X from X country. Yippie!

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Re: Find the album cover location (and win!)
« Reply #134 on: December 04, 2018, 07:44:06 PM »
The photographer is credited in the booklet. At least we know something lol
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