Populate Kerbin!

[kahlzun]

As it stands, Kerbin is a very barren world, with a total of 4 structures, and nowhere for all the poor kerbins to live.

My challenge is to land rockets, with appropriate names, at the approximate co-ordinates of all Earths major cities (Or as many as you can be bothered with).

Imagine orbiting around Kerbin, being able to spot when you'd pass over landmarks that -you- recognise?

Bonus points if they are large 'stations' or in some way resemble the city (ie. a Statue of Liberty in NY, eiffel tower in Paris etc.)

linked is a website that lists the coordinates of major cities:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html

*Note that these coordinates have NOT been tested, and it is very possible that the Kerbin geography is different enough to cause a bad landing, but thems the breaks.

EDIT: As requested, a points system is implemented!

20 points: Major city (capital of state/country), reasonably close to coordinates (+- 0.2 deg)

+10 points: Some feature on the ship that resembles/refers to said city

40 points: Smaller city (such as Alice Springs or Blackpool)

Due to difficulties in judging accurate coordinates, the score will mostly be self-assessed. We're all adults here, honor system in place.

Edited September 7, 2012 by kahlzun

[Cooly568]

VERY good challenge.

[Matokage]

Int resting. Any pointing system? (I think it will be too painful to do).

[Cooly568]

A point system would be cool.

[EndlessWaves]

linked is a website that lists the coordinates of major cities:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html

What an utterly bizzare list. It includes places like Hammerfest in Norway, a town of just 10,000 people, while completely missing major cities like Kiev, Istanbul and Chennai. Plus many of the names are years out of date - Bombay instead of Mumbai, Canton instead of Guangzhou and so on.

[Fyzzi]

Very interesting idea, although it has one major minus... Kerbin's landscape is VERY much different from Earht's as you can see from the orbit or maps made with ISA MapSat mod. Even if you'd like to try to land at some coords at least, you can use this mod to figure out the coords of each specific point of Kerbin...

It is very interesting point for devs though, 'cause I think, that KSP in the future SHOULD really have at least some more civilization going on down there at Kerbin

P.S.: There are 8 buildings in total (you have to add the well known "secret KSC", where the pink navball navigates you to)

[JackAz]

Nice challenge. I've actually started landing with spaceplanes on some of kerbin's isles

[togfox]

I checked the KGSS maps and my home town is under water.

[kahlzun]

I guess you could land a floaty ship?

[kahlzun]

It was the first google link for "coordinates major cities". Feel free to use your own sources.

[joedude69]

I made my way to Calgary, AB, Canada.