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Where in the USA is this?

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Re: Where in the USA is this?

#11
Some of the photos were actually taken about a thousand feet from the zone where you were marked "correct". I clicked right on top of the dam for my fifth guess and it showed me being 0.2 miles off.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

#13

Is the idea that all pictures are the sane location? I got 17 miles, the pictures all had intense west virginia energy haha

I also did not read the very brief introduction. Then, some of the pictures looked similar and I got suspicious.

569, 1236, 512, 1734, 4.6 -- 4.6?? Pure luck.

If you can edit out the spoiler in your comment that might be polite.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

#15
Got 0 mi on my first guess because I thought “That’s [state]” and then picked a random spot on the [other state] side of the state since it had that feel. I feel like I might as well quit at this point, lol.

Edited out spoilers.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

#18
The original “where in the world?” location guessing game is GeoGuesser from 2013. There are competitions and some pro competitors can pinpoint locations within feet, though some rules allow the player to browse Google Maps in a separate window.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoGuessr

Re: Where in the USA is this?

#19

This is fun. My first guess was 34 miles from the place. It took four tries to get to 0. Though, I don't understand the indoor one.

i think it's auto-generating a problem based on geotagged pictures. the indoor one isn't supposed to be a good clue, it's just a photo that happened to be in the dataset.
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