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Where in the USA is this?

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Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by irrational »

tkanarsky wrote: post #26
cbfrench wrote: post #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.

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 :)

Same, though I clicked in the middle of the name “West Virginia” and was 34 miles away.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by ajmurmann »

whoopdedo wrote: post #29

I 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. [1] https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/

The cool thing with wheretaken and worldle is that I've learned a lot about countries and their borders. If I could pick on a map, I wonder if I'd retained how things look in certain parts of the world, but not what country they are in.

Another awesome game for anyone who is into geography and, in this case econ: https://oec.world/en/tradle/

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by obituary_latte »

function_seven wrote: post #65

I went back a couple days to #74, and laughed out loud at the second photo. Not sure if this link will work, but it should take you to #74: https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=6aa7v&rs=q0hdp&upc=tu...

I don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the map reliably. Or is it a different picture?

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by obituary_latte »

function_seven wrote: post #65

I went back a couple days to #74, and laughed out loud at the second photo. Not sure if this link will work, but it should take you to #74: https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=6aa7v&rs=q0hdp&upc=tu...

I don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the map reliably. Or am I looking at the wrong picture?

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by uhtred »

open the image in a new tab and there are often some serious clues in the filename- is this cheating?

I actually did it initially to be able to zoom in and see if I could read the guy's badge on his shirt

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by function_seven »

obituary_latte wrote: post #74
function_seven wrote: post #65

I went back a couple days to #74, and laughed out loud at the second photo. Not sure if this link will work, but it should take you to #74: https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=6aa7v&rs=q0hdp&upc=tu...

I don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the map reliably. Or is it a different picture?

It has an outline of Illinois, with a star right where the village is located.

So I brought up the map, zoomed in on Illinois, and put my guess about where that star was.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by postmodest »

brezelgoring wrote: post #34

I got 0 mi! [1] After the first 2 I stopped attempting cities and figured the picture didn't matter, it was a game of triangulation. Nice game, I like it, even though I've never set foot in the US. [1] Spoilers! - https://i.imgur.com/azCWc3i.png

I was off by 6 miles because the actual pin is off by six miles for the last picture.

Also, as an American, the fact that I recognized the first picture to within 50 miles makes me sad. Our bridges should not look like that, even there.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by madcaptenor »

whoopdedo wrote: post #25
notatoad wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are definitely pictures with signs, I've been going back through the archives.
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