Challenge mode: Leave the guessing map at default zoom. 20 minutes or less.
GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view
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#12You are wasting my time. (That's a good thing!) Thanks!
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#13Warning: it's pretty addictive.
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#14This is a brilliant idea.
I love the fact that you can explore really obscure parts of the worlds in a couple of seconds and it almost feels like you're there. It's a great way of getting a feel for a place before visiting too.
I also love maps in general so this is a really cool mixture.
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#15Challenge mode: Leave the guessing map at default zoom. 20 minutes or less. http://bit.ly/1a4y8Ne
That was tight: http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTEyNzgsInZl...
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#16What's the etiquette: is it fair to Google what you find on signs?
I don't play for the points. I play to be dropped in the middle of a place and explore a place I would have never seen. But I do google since it is fun to be right. Once I was dropped on a logging road in Canada. It took about a hour to hit a paved road and another 15 minutes to find a sign announcing the logging road ahead. I found a sign and googled it. Even that was wrong. I thought I was in Oregon but was wrong.
I had the opposite experience: once I was dropped in Macau. Where else do you have signs in Portuguese and Chinese and a large baroque church in ruins? I had sub-kilometer precision without even moving.
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#17Great game. Maybe include some kind of URL shortner for sharing? Those URLs are quite massive.
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#18Challenge mode: Leave the guessing map at default zoom. 20 minutes or less. http://bit.ly/1a4y8Ne
After my first horrible miss I didn't think I could possibly win. But I did!
http://www.geoguessr.com/?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTA5MDgsInZl...
Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view
#19There's a guy on reddit who does this: http://www.reddit.com/user/IFoundItOnGoogleMaps
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#20What's the etiquette: is it fair to Google what you find on signs?
I thought that was cheating, just like looking on the map for terrain that matches, until I saw someone on HN post "Challenge mode: 20 minutes and no zooming on the map". I was already doing that lol...