I've been playing this (https://wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr/) for a while now, it's nice albeit a bit hard at times. There's also a worldwide version.
Where in the USA is this?
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Re: Where in the USA is this?
#22I've never been to the states in the photos and somehow got within a few hundred miles of them. Guess my brain has had enough training data.
You’ve been trained by the internet
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#23That’s fun. Although a picture indoors seems unfair. Somehow I knew one of the pictures had to be West Virginia and got within 40 miles. But the indoor one I got the exact opposite of the country because how are you supposed to tell? Literally all convention centers in the US have the same walls and awful garish carpeting.
Indoor photos can still provide good clues. I had no idea where the first picture was. I guessed somewhere in Vermont. But that second picture had me guess West Virginia because David McKinley was in the photo.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#24You almost had me, covert dataset labeling company. Where's the input box to tell you what Transformer I would be based on my name and zip code?
Most /s but also maybe not.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#25This 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.
Could maybe pass the pictures through an object detector. Too many faces and it skips the picture. It may already be doing it to remove pictures with words as one "clue" containing a sign would spoil it. Though I'd rather it keep the picture but blur the sign in that case.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#26Got 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.
Lol same, I was like "yeah this is Appalachia for sure, why not WV", clicked somewhere in the middle of the state, and got 14 miles :)
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#27Not the same location for me. 194 miles apart: First picture showed Stouts Mill Bridge https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8 Last one Deer Creek Dam https://goo.gl/maps/u5zxGmby74X7JMWi7
The attribution on the first image shows that it's apparently the Burnsville Bridge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnsville_Bridge
It seems that these two bridges just happen to have almost the exact same construction and type of trees around. However, you can see that in the first image from the parent article that there are four houses in the background, and if we look up the bridge attributed to the first image in the parent, it has those same four houses in the background: https://goo.gl/maps/WLnbN845pa4Hw1Yi7 Compare to the wikipedia photo used in the parent article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnsville_Bridge.jp...
The Stouts Mill Bridge does not have those same four houses in the background, it has a different set of buildings in a different arrangement near it: https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#28Got 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.
Spoiler alert? :P
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#29I like the map picking a lot better than naming the country in WhereTaken[1]. The US version is even easier because you only need to guess the state.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#30So everyone got the same pictures? Seems kind of non-random in terms of where the locations were, too. Nothing from the west coast in 5 photos?