GeoGuessr Guess-All

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We've been playing this over in the "Post a Website" thread but I figured it may enjoy a greater audience.

GeoGuessr (or, Where in the World is the Google Street View Car?)

Basically the game shows you a Streetview scene. Pan and move around as much as you like, then indicate where you think you are on a map.

Apparently in my mind, South Africa looks a lot like Arizona, New Zealand looks a lot like Sweden in the summer, the Southern coast of Australia did look a lot like Eastern Wisconsin in my defense. The closest I got was with an area that was the Rockies, I guessed Montana, the answer was just north of Calgary.

There's some sanity checks you can do with almost all situations, even just a random road. They're always going to be on a road, and always during the day, and you always get a compass, so you can usually check what side of the road they drive on, and what hemisphere they're in, and make a vague guess at how far from the equator they are.

It would be nice if they could classify scenes for you to guess, and then you could have "scores in a city" which are going to have tons of clues, to "scores in a country lane in bumf***, nowhere".

Yeah, I get things like this a lot...
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Amazingly I managed to get within a few hundred km on that one. (It's in Italy; I guessed southern France)

Something which I didn't realize for ages: you're not locked into a single spot, you can move around as much as you'd like. Helps enormously.

tanstaafl wrote:

Amazingly I managed to get within a few hundred km on that one. (It's in Italy; I guessed southern France)

I think guessing is a part of it. It's kind of interesting when you get a sense of what certain regions look like. Skillset is probably the wrong word for it, but it's different to wandering around a city looking for placenames you recognise, phone number or a website URL that has a country TLD.

Here's a typical run for me.

A couple really close, a couple in the neighborhood and one way off base.

That was pretty entertaining, thanks for sharing it. I got a score of 10,450. My closest one was ~150 km.

If you get some really close you can really rack up the score. I think I've placed the mark within 3m for one in Boston. You have to be careful to put the mark where the first view was, rather than where you ended up walking around.

first one I spent about 2 mins on and only got 560km off. I guessed Sweden, and sure enough, I was right. Thanks, Volvo.

21k or so on my first run. I'll see if I can better it today; I guess I got lucky with only one featureless desert road. This thing is addictive.

Good idea on doing a separate thread. I'll have another go at it today and see what score I can come up with.

Wait! Wait! I think I can figure this one out!

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I love those. The worst I've had so far was an empty road with a fence and scrub in all directions. I was off by like 200 km. Best was the one with "Prudhoe Bay Hotel" on a sign in the foreground...

I'd like to see an option where several players could get the same five locations, and time their searches. Then they could compare scores.

What I like is that it really forces you to use clues in some of the scenes. I just had one with a field and a distant farm, but the only thing I could see as I moved the view was a road train, with 3 trailers. I've never seen that before, so I thought "Australia", but then I noticed it was driving on the right. So I looked some more and noticed that the vehicle was in good repair, and the farm buildings looked familiar. So, the US. Somewhere that allows 3 trailers, meaning incredibly rural. So I guessed Montana.

In reality? Idaho. But I still got around 2200 points out of it. If you can nail three of the five, you're over 20,000 points.

Scratched wrote:

They're always going to be on a road

Not true! One of the locations they dropped me at was in the middle of a river, I swear!. I spun completely around trying to navigate out of it but couldn't move in any direction. No idea how/why there would be a "street view" with no street, but it made it pretty tough to guess. And no, I don't remember the location

I had Copacobana fort, which I worked out was in the southern hemisphere on the east coast. I spent ages looking along the Brazilian coast until I looked up that Copacobana=Rio de Janeiro. That was the first one I turned to google for help for because it was getting to me.

I'm pretty proud of this one. The only thing I was going on was a European style city with lots of brick and stone and the word Olrik that appeared on a building.

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During that round, I also got one where you were in the middle of nowhere. All I could see where hills, grass, trees, and the ocean way off in the distance. I guessed Guatemala which turned out to be pretty close. I think it ended up being Honduras.

I find that sometimes you can move around, sometimes you can't. I had one that I swore from the initial location would have been in Georgia or Alabama, but it was Iowa! I got lucky following the road and found a road sign to nearby towns, but even then, there was a pair with similar names in Washington state.

Worst mistake - picking the outskirts of Leningrad instead of, well, Novosibirsk. That sucked.

The starter for my next set is a grassy lane with what looks like vacation cottages by the edge of a lake...

Edit - Norway is very, very beautiful.

I'll have to try moving around next time.

I refuse to search in anything other than the guessing window. Keeps me honest.

I had a 3km guess the other day with a speculative stab into Brazil, just basing the guess on the first letter of a bus and knowing it was by the sea. That round I ended up with something like 18.5k, which is still my high score.

Haakon7 wrote:

I refuse to search in anything other than the guessing window. Keeps me honest.

I had a 3km guess the other day with a speculative stab into Brazil, just basing the guess on the first letter of a bus and knowing it was by the sea. That round I ended up with something like 18.5k, which is still my high score.

You know, I like it that way, too. I take that back about trying to move around.

This roadkill made it easy to guess the right continent at least:
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Ended up guessing the wrong side of the continent, though.

This is pretty fun. Getting the only a long street bites, but I usually still get it pretty close by looking at the plant life. Also I think it favors certain more interesting locations as I had one picture twice. Still fun.

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Uh oh, I think we have a GeoGuessr troll.

Spoiler:

It's not Brooklyn.

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WTF? I feel like this should have been a pretty good clue. I guessed Washington around Puget Sound. It was somewhere Northwest Canada.

I've had the same location twice now, by the golden gate bridge in San Francisco. I guess there's a limited number of them, rather than being random as I thought.

Quickest one for me... boats in a harbor, American looking suvs and a camper. Must be the coast of Maine. Bam! Answer? Sweden!

I love the forensic analysis of spinning around and zooming in order to find the spot. I only had one really bad guess, but I got lucky on the last one, since I recognized the sign that advertises the Oregon lottery.

I lucked out with several North American locations on this one.

So I was placed here:

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And when I turned around I knew it was coastal Japan somewhere. Still missed by some margin.

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Also not a road, btw

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