GeoGuessr Guess-All

Your guess was 0.096 km from the correct location and gave 6471 points.

And then

Your guess was 0.03 km from the correct location and gave 6477 points.

Playing this one.

http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3Rhb...

Bruce wrote:

Playing this one.

http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3Rhb...

Challenge accepted! 32,386 points, booyah!

If that is without searching then that is truly impressive.

Wow, and I thought I did okay with this round (although the Haiti vs. Romania one was a bit of a fumble), but apparently you guys are nailing it a lot closer. To be fair, I'm playing at work when I shouldn't be, I only allowed myself about 30 seconds per picture. Once I get home I might be better at this when I can concentrate on it more.

My dad would probably be stupidly good at this, I'll have to show it to him.

Oh gods, I just missed one that was on Kangaroo Island (I guessed somewhere in Victoria instead). That's embarrasing, it's right next door.

Best so far was 16550 between my wife and I. We even managed to nail a particular stretch of Californian coastline to within 50km

Oooh, that was a good run, except for West Australia looking like Wyoming =/

Bruce wrote:

If that is without searching then that is truly impressive.

Oh heck no, I'm not that knowledgeable! Some of those were actually quite tough, requiring me to do some serious google-fu! I like the "rush" I get from successfully researching and tracking down these locations, the detective work is fun.

Oh, googlage is allowed? Driving around and googling strikes me as a bit cheaty.

I assumed it was ok. Otherwise I'm throwing darts at a barn from 100 yards and hoping to hit flies on the wall that I can't even see from that range.

15k - YAY! Mostly due to good guess of Munich (3 km). With no googleage at all.

http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3Rhb...

Oh, and I just noticed that there is apparently a limited pool of locations - I played probably about a dozen times today, and I got a few places twice!

All of my guesses have been using google maps to verify, except the ones I had no clue about, like the one that dropped me in South Dakota, and I guessed Kansas after 10 minutes of straight road, or Southern New South Wales, Australia & I guessed South Australia. Got a place in Romania along a straight stretch of road within 2m.

Also, and this belongs in the things you should know by now thread, when in google street view if you click on the ground along the street (circle cursor), it will zoom to that spot in street view, instead of having to click the arrow like 20 times to get there.

I got my first repeat location at a temple like place on an island (Naha) between Japan and Taiwan. Sadly, I got it wrong both times because the 2nd time I remembered the Japan part only. I find asian locations to be particularly hard since I can't read most of the characters shown. I did get one in Seoul good, though.

25k!

This was without googling, but I lucked out on a few of these.

My first was in the middle of Palermo, with a convenient tour bus labelled "Palermo Tours" just up the street. I was clearly in the middle of the city, near a landmark-looking place. Guessed pretty close.

My second one was the great barrier reef, obvious because I was underwater. I did the worst on this one because the great barrier reef is a big place and I had no idea where the photos were taken.

The third took a bunch of investigation before I figured out I was in Manitoba, then it was a matter of finding the highway I was on on the map and trying find large rivers that highway crossed.

The fourth I wasn't far from a street sign that said Perth and labelled the highway I was on.

And the 5th was Peggy's Cove! Easily recognizable from the tourist ads.

This was my first attempt. I thought the point out in the ocean was a mistake, until I zoomed WAY in. A tiny island out in the Pacific is a good way to throw you off.

Yoink!

Edit: shortened the link.

I'm doing mine without googling. This means I struggle when there is nothing with any englishable.

A National Geographic cartographer weighs in on GeoGuessr.

Oh, and I have to include this quote...

In many cases, you could even deduce your exact address by traveling down the road, zooming in on street signs or business names, and then doing a Google search. That’ll certainly help your score, but it’s the wrong way to play the game. GeoGuessr isn’t really about high scores. It’s about your ability to pick up on the details of the world around you, not your Google-fu.
tanstaafl wrote:

A National Geographic cartographer weighs in on GeoGuessr.

Oh, and I have to include this quote...

In many cases, you could even deduce your exact address by traveling down the road, zooming in on street signs or business names, and then doing a Google search. That’ll certainly help your score, but it’s the wrong way to play the game. GeoGuessr isn’t really about high scores. It’s about your ability to pick up on the details of the world around you, not your Google-fu.

This is what I'm sayin'

I can see that, but I guess that just means I'm not a GeoGuessr purist.

Man, y'all are good.

Best I could do is about 14k.

What a great concept! These guys really need an app that lets you challenge friends.

Lester_King wrote:

Man, y'all are good.

Best I could do is about 14k.

What a great concept! These guys really need an app that lets you challenge friends.

Challenges are built into the app. In your final map the top right has a link to send to a friend to compete against your guesses.

I've taken to letting my son (he's 8) navigate while we look for hints to our location. Then having him find the location on the map. So yesterday we were on a road heading north, with water to our left, and there was a sign for Kowloon Bay. So i said ok, we're near Hong Kong and had him find Asia, then the south east coast, then the city of Hong Kong, then a likely place where, facing north, we'd have water on the left. He ended up clicking about half a km from the location

It's fun for him to see how similar and how different other places can be, and he's really observing the surroundings trying to find clues.

Next step is to drop him off in a foreign country and see how many days it takes for him to get back home.

This is such a fun app! I've already discovered a few places that I never knew existed, such as Ponta Delgada.
What's your worst fail so far? I think mine was guessing North Carolina and it turned out to be southern Australia. That didn't net too many points.

This is a horrible thing to find on a Friday when I have a lot of things to do for work, but every single one of those things is stupid, pointless, and and a painful waste of time.

Oh, I guess I'll play again.

I found this the other day and was playing over and over. I have been playing without googling, and I've done alright even though I have always been terrible at these kind of games. I think my proudest moment was when I marked it only 0.53km from the picture, without moving around.

After a lot of plays (without googling, of course), my main disappointment is the disproportionate amount of US/Mexico/Brazil hits that I get. Brazil hits are the worst, because its such a huge country that without googling I'm basically clueless as to where it is, and even if I get the country right I can be way off geographcaly. US is also rough, because one mid-western state looks a lot like the other. I guessed Wisconsin in one round and it was Iowa, and I guessed Iowa later that round and it was Wisconsin.

It's just less of a fun game when you keep getting the same parts of the world over and over again. It's less "geoguessr" and more "USMexBrazGuessr"

Right now I'm almost more impressed by the precision you can get on a given result without googling than on the overall score of a round. My best? Picking the result within 600 meters of the border between Yosemite and Merced county, California.

EDIT: Beat that. Best guess is 10 Meters away from the actual spot, lucked out and got downtown Kiev, where I was multiple times last fall. Picked the wrong side of the street.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5ISW_VwXmBKUWpNRjNnNW9OMGM/edit?usp=sharing

It was the same round as the previous Yosemite guess. Despite having two epically close guesses, my round was broken because of TWO street views in, you guessed it, Brazil. Helpful hint: If a highway sign in Brazil indicates Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo could very well still be over 800 KM away.

Sigh.

My first real try: 27874 points. But this was with googling. Got a small town in central Siberia; a rural road in Finland; a bum-frig-nowhere road in some bush in Alaska; a boat launch in town of 30 in northern Manitoba; and a small town in south west Australia. So yeah. Google.

Damn it, my first attempt at home with some cheating Googling, and I nailed every one, within 10 metres for 4, and 100 metres for the last. Including a village in Botswana, a rural road in New Brunswick, and a National Park in Israel, that were all a complete pain in the butt to find. But it bugged out or something and didn't give me the results screen to brag with. Nooooooo...

http://www.google.com/help/maps/stre...

The highlighted areas are the only places you will get. So large parts to Asia and South America are not covered.

Bruce wrote:

http://www.google.com/help/maps/stre...

The highlighted areas are the only places you will get. So large parts to Asia and South America are not covered.

The thing is we know the start locations for the game are pre-set, rather than randomly choosing somewhere that streetview has been, so whoever runs the site needs to choose a wide (or wider) range of locations.

I'd be interested to see how random would work out, probably a lot of indistinct roads between towns. Seeing as google have defined towns on their maps, I wonder if they could say "randomly within 5-20km of a town".