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Hey everyone - just got back from GPS fishing in Chicago. I started a new thread with my theory as this one is getting a bit tedious to dig through. Check it out if you will.

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=53190#53190

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[Ekim]

I live near the Pittsburgh, PA location. About 30 minutes away, actually. I ran the address through Verizon's SuperPages (yellow pages directory) using the advanced search for street addresses and got this result:

Purchase Officials Supplies.

If the address is accurate, then it points to a sporting goods store that sells referee supplies. I'm not seeing any major connection between these locations, unless the GPS spot is pointing to a different store in that strip mall. I'd check it out myself but my car can't drive more than a few miles before stalling out for hours, so that task is up for someone else.

SuperPages doesn't work for all of the addresses listed, but it's still helpful for some.

[sherpa]

Following the Sedalia, MO link to the beekeeping there (posted above)

there's a Beekeepers Meetup in 5 days. At first I thought it was us, but then realised it's genuine - or so it seems.

One thing to add - People are getting fairly deep into some trivialities here. How easy do you think it would be to construct this list of almost-all-meaningful locations if they were wanting us to do something with averages? Think about how it was constructed before flying off on theories that are irreversible (hmm, let's FFT the whole thing and make a picture out of it).

But there's some good stuff going on here. I just read the entire thread and it didn't take that long. Others can do it too, or at least use 'Search'.

[advinius]

I hit the Ann Arbor, MI location last night about 5:30pm for about 20 minutes. I hadn't managed to focus in quite as precisely as some ofthe other stalwarts here, but i had it to within a third of a short block. there was an irish bar, several storefronts being renovated, a interior minimall full of craft stores ( but no honey or be references) a few jewelers, and an art gallery. none of the patterns that were mentioned previous seemed to fit my location, but i'll keep lookingevery few days. after all its my patriotic duty to stake out that irish bar, right?

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[Aelith]

Ah hem, In case you didn't catch it the K-mart address in Sedalia is on the block of the first set of co-oords; corner of W.14th street and S. Limit AVe.

hmmm Columbia does not have a KMart or Boarders. (scratches head )

[keybsnbits]

[xTopGunx]

Ok, so in the past few hours we've pretty much come up with this:

We've scouted out enough locations to try to figure out correlations between them. So further scouting right now accomplishes little or nothing. We need to find a correlation between Vacant Lots, Places of Education, Open Fields, and Bustling Cities. More or less, that's all we've figured out.

Now, scouting out open fields is probably just about the only useful thing. There's likely to be very little out in the open. That's why whoever found that plaque in the middle of a field caused such a stir- since there's only 1 or 2 things in an open field, those things would also have to be in other locations. So scout open fields out.

In addition, I think this puzzle has more relevance to China than we seem to be giving it. Since the co-ordinates lead to China when they were reversed, and since Dana was in China, wouldn't it just make a tiny bit of sense that China is where the Operator is looking?

Our third option is that the Operator has moved to a website and the owner is at one of the locations. Unfortunately, this is very unlikely, as evidence would need to be another site that's already been hijacked and shown to be in-game.

I don't think playing connect the dots with these points would have been a difficult riddle. Thus the fourth option may be that on August 24th, something is at these points. This theory is supplimented by the fact that the Operator needs to be "Wide Awake and Physical" in order to move. But that could also mean that another website will be infected on August 24th, and the owner of the site will be at any of these given locales.

I think it's important to start brainstorming other ideas. Anybody got any?

[keybsnbits]

Could somebody make a pic of the coordinates on China? Thank you so much.

Wishi -- maybe you could make a script to figure out where the reversed points are in China?

[Cortana]

38.9033 -77.0326

[peccable]

UPDATE on 39.9528 -75.1582 (Center City, Philadelphia)

I did a search and didn't find anything posted about this particular set of coordinates. Please forgive me if this is trout.

In any case, I headed up there right after work and...well, my memory's not as good as I'd hoped. It turns out I'd misread the coordinates. The corner I was thinking of was one block north.

The corner indicated by the coordinates (NW corner of Philbert and 11th Streets) is...well, empty. There's literally an empty "store space for rent" there. There *was* a public phone a little bit north, but it's been ripped out of its housing. There's a public phone across the street on the North-*EAST* corner, but I'm thinking if they meant that corner, they would have marked that corner.

The only thing of note I saw was that Filbert Street has a different name, indicated by a streetsign on that corner: HARRY OCHS WAY. I'd never heard of the name before, really.

Has anyone else noticed interesting street sign names? My thinking is that (a) it's the only interesting thing there and (b) such a thing would be very difficult to find out on the Internet (as I said, I had never heard of Harry Ochs Way before...).

There's *definitely* nothing even remotely approaching a WiFi point there.

-peccable

[peccable]

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UPDATE to the UPDATE.

I just noticed on the Wiki that the GPS coordinates in Philly are listed as "Philadelphia, PA: 11th and Filbert St.; Middle of Gallery East Mall".

The Gallery is an underground mall. I didn't occur to me at all that the coordinates don't indicate *elevation*. The coordinates could, very well, be inside the mall. For the life of me I can't remember if it runs that far north...

-- peccable, wondering how he's going to find the point inside the mall without a GPS unit. :/