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TweetLynn University in Boca Raton, Florida has been selected as the host of the final presidential debate between Obama and Romney. The debate will be held on October 22 and the election is on November 6. Google Maps Street View visited in May 2012 and you can see the students welcome the crew. LargerContinue reading

Three years ago while camping in the Adirondacks, Michael Comeau dropped his camera into a small stream and was unable to find it. This past July, John Noerr stumbled across the camera and was able to track down the owner of it thanks to some creative thinking, hard work, and Google Earth. You can read the full story here.

John used Street View to try to identify the location of some of the photos on the card, then he used Google Earth to pin locations of various photos.

In the end, it came down to a handful of pictures: the front stoop of a house numbered 327, one of the sky, and a shot of a corner of a building with "very unique stone work" and a visible sign for 3rd Street.

"I went onto Google Earth Street View and started looking up every 3rd Street I could find," he said.

That placed him in the camera owner's neighborhood, where other identifiable buildings and doors popped up that Noerr recognized from pictures on the memory card. Faster than he imagined, he found the house, No. 327, on Street View, tracked down the building's owner, and used Facebook and Twitter to contact the family.

(via ABC News)

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