Somewhere in Vancouver (Canada), Waldo is hiding on a rooftop waiting to be found.

A Vancouver (Canada) local artist Melanie Coles started the creation of a 16-metre tall painting of the main character in popular children’s book “Where’s Waldo” to be the focus of a citywide search using Google Earth. If everything goes as planned, Coles’ art installation, and graduation project from Emily Carr Institute, will be recorded by Google’s mapping satellite during its next sweep over the region. Though the search giant does not reveal its satellite’s orbit path, the exhilarating hunt should begin about a year after the image is captured.

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Introduction to the project:

For my graduating project at the Emily Carr Institute of Art Design and Media, I am creating a Google Earth Wheres Waldo inspired game. Players will be given the hint that Waldo is hiding somewhere in Vancouver and he can only be seen via Google Earth. In order to do this, a giant Waldo painting is being constructed and placed on a rooftop! The project will be exhibited at the Emily Carr Graduation Exhibit 08 opening May 3, 2008.

So if you got a chance to visit Vancouver, maybe a familiar structures will lead you where is Waldo was. See the Sky View of the image here.