{"id":649843,"date":"2013-04-01T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223219"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:19:35","slug":"google-maps-treasure-mode-is-more-game-than-april-fools-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649843","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Treasure Mode Is More Game Than April Fools\u2019 Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been announcing a lot of April Fools&#8217; jokes as usual, but Google Maps Treasure Mode is actually something of a game, and Google is calling on users to play along. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_qFFHC0eIUc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Archeological analysis has confirmed that our Google Maps Street View team has indeed found one of history\u2019s long lost relics: a treasure map belonging to the infamous pirate, William &#8216;Captain&#8217; Kidd,&#8221; says Google Maps software engineer Tatsuo Nomura in <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/find-treasure-with-google-maps.html\">a blog post<\/a>. &#8220;The map was found on a recent expedition in the Indian Ocean, as part of a deep-water dive to expand our underwater Street View collection. Captain Kidd was rumored to have buried his treasure around the world, and tales of a long-lost treasure map have lingered for generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Dr. Marco Meniketti, an independent archaeologist, confirmed that this was Captain Kidd\u2019s 315 year-old map, we were very excited,&#8221; adds Nomura. &#8220;However, as seen in the video, the map contains a variety of encrypted symbols and is not readily decipherable. We need your help to decipher these symbols and find Captain Kidd\u2019s treasures; therefore we\u2019ve decided to digitize the map and make it accessible to everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The treasure map can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/pB4gm\">here<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/+googlemaps\">Google Maps Google+ page<\/a> will be helping with clues. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=S9_bvgLwa9s:s0S_pVuaNwM:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/S9_bvgLwa9s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been announcing a lot of April Fools&#8217; jokes as usual, but Google Maps Treasure Mode is actually something of a game, and Google is calling on users to play along. &#8220;Archeological analysis has confirmed that our Google Maps Street View team has indeed found one of history\u2019s long lost relics: a treasure map [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}