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[ouroboros]

[brodie]

Maybe not all subway entrances and exits, but...

[L'el]

Bloor-Yonge

[iheathen]

Yonge and Bloor is the intersection between the two main subway lines in Toronto. It's not the "biggest" station, that's Union Station, but it is definitely the busiest station.

Copenhagen points to the main Bus Terminal.

Another thing to note though, is the GPS coordinates we were given all point to almost identical positions as when you just type "Toronto ON" or "Copenhagen Denmark" into Google Earth. The only one of the six locations that really is very different is London. That definitely takes you to Clapham Station, not the place that typing "London, UK" into Google Earth takes you to.

[AUZ505]

Perhaps some people will be disappointed, but I am pretty sure there is nothing special regarding the concrete coordinates on the postcard (also no station theory).

These are simply the coordinates you get, if you put the cities' name into Google Earth. The next point with a resolution of 0.001° is taken as the coordinate on the postcard. See the attached example of Madrid. The same is true for Boston, Toronto, Rio de Janeiro and Copenhagen (You can try it!)

As already mentioned many posts before (I gues in the long trailhead thread) there is one exception: London. Not sure if this is an important clue.

If someone still suspects some speciality behind the coordinates he can ask google.
I wonder how Jorge and his friends knew about the coordinates Google Earth uses

So I guess the important thing is "but how do they fit together".

[EDIT] For Boston this only holds if the ambiguous number is 9 and not 4. Will update the wiki!

[Weezel]

[D72W]

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[AUZ505]

[Weezel]

[FMG]

[Weezel]

I tried finding documentation or discussion somewhere on how Google decides to center itself on a city or place to see if it somehow the center, but I haven't found a definitive link yet.

Actually, though, I found this in a group mailing list post from a Google Rep in Oct 2007 explaining another topic, but he confirms that a city without an address centers on the city.

***Why can't I view maps of other countries in English?
All of our maps are provided in their local language. You can still
perform many searches using the Latin alphabet and English equivalents
on Google Maps. For example, searching for [ Tokyo, Japan ] will take
you right to the city center:

So I would say that it confirms that the coordinates are the city centers in each of these locations, which is pretty significant.

[Isaac Dodgson]

Perhaps we are looking at this from the wrong angle.

[VictorSueiro]

[AUZ505]

I do not think that these are the training locations. Taking Chapter 4 into account the training locations where those other 6 places here .

So what do they have in common:
- All are candidates for upcoming olympic games (which should not be known during Jorge's time)
- All of them have a subway/metro system (but some are quite new)

I have nor found any other commons so far (besides some really minor ones, like beeing on a list of tour data of Genesis, U2 ... or beeing part of the ATLAS cooperation like several other cities.

Putting just the city names into google search does not really help. but I keep on searching

[Trak26]

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