Got within 75 miles on the first try, even though I have only been to the US once in my life (and nowhere near there). Of course that’s partially just a lucky guess. But it made me ponder the giant influence of American TV and movies on my life. Playing the same game with China for example, I would have been completely and utterly lost.
Where in the USA is this?
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Re: Where in the USA is this?
#82The most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from the comments here. Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are five photos from the same place." I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't register? An opportunity to reflect on how ha…
The issue is they're clearly not all from the same place, so the instruction can't really register. They were all taken within a few hundred feet of each other, but that doesn't mean they were taken from the same place. In today’s one was aerial while another was indoors — not the same place!
The instructions would be better if they read “the five photos were taken at different times, but were all taken within a few hundred feet of each other”.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
I thought "Kentucky" and was 200 away on first guess.
PA for me, it's like all the wrong guesses are just triangulating on the "most Appalachian" place lol
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#84Got within 75 miles on the first try, even though I have only been to the US once in my life (and nowhere near there). Of course that’s partially just a lucky guess. But it made me ponder the giant influence of American TV and movies on my life. Playing the same game with China for example, I would have been completely and utterly lost.
don't think it's just a lucky guess, same for me. Only been to the us once, looked at it for five seconds and just thought 'somewhere near Pittsburgh' and got within 50 miles. The North-East of the US in general seems very recognizable. I sometimes play Geoguessr when I'm bored and it's always places in the South of the US that seem much harder to guess.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#85The most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from the comments here. Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are five photos from the same place." I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't register? An opportunity to reflect on how ha…
My phone does not show those instructions. Firefox on iPhone mini 12.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#86The most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from the comments here. Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are five photos from the same place." I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't register? An opportunity to reflect on how ha…
Place does have many meanings, and in the context of playing a game, there's always room for playing with stuff like that. They could be taken from the exact same geographical coordinates, the same city, the same state. The photos could've all been grabbed from the same website or the place could've been "by a river", whether that's the Monongahela River or the Colorado River.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#87I 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 like "Huhm... a rural area?" and got very lucky: something like 1280 miles on the first guess and 0 miles on the second guess.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#88Alright. I went all the way back to the first one. It was pretty easy to triangulate some of them. Some of them have clues to location in the photos. It was fun.
I would like to point out some issues with the scale displayed. There are quite a few cases where the scale only changes when you shift the map so your guess could be affected by an incorrect scale. The first location was one example. After I guessed the location from the first photo (it's pretty obvious if you have been out there) I made a second guess that cut the error by about half. My third guess was inside the radius which appeared to be about 5 miles even though the actual location plotted as correct was well outside any point that could've been triangulated from the first two guesses. I suspect the scale was not correct since moving the map by grabbing it updated the scale.
I managed to get quite a few of the 75 or so available by the third guess. I got a couple on the second guess since I recognized the geology of the area. All in all when you miss by 0.02 miles I think it is close enough. This makes me think the error radius changes based on the individual photo since I had narrowed the location to within 0.04 miles on one California location and wasted two picks narrowing the location while still remaining outside the "correct" radius.
Pretty fun stuff. Thank you sir. May I have another?
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#89The most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from the comments here. Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are five photos from the same place." I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't register? An opportunity to reflect on how ha…
OTOH I understood the instructions immediately. This is a fundamental issue in UX. Some users will know right away and others will not. Maybe a better sentence structure? Maybe something like "Guess the 1 location where all these photos were taken" (?)
From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or text notes anyway. So its possible that an even better UX is one where the user figures out what they can do through intuition rather than reading.
Re: Where in the USA is this?
#90The most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from the comments here. Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are five photos from the same place." I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't register? An opportunity to reflect on how ha…
The issue is they're clearly not all from the same place, so the instruction can't really register. They were all taken within a few hundred feet of each other, but that doesn't mean they were taken from the same place. In today’s one was aerial while another was indoors — not the same place! The instructions would be better if they read “the five photos were taken at different times, but were all taken within a few…
Or “the five photos were all taken in the same town/city”. Now I know the scale I’m looking for.