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However, I am curious that the URL seems identical so how was it possible for a new submission to be made? I thought HN just added another vote to the original for duplicates.
I once did this for a facebook competition; An estate agent would post pictures and you had to guess the location.
After checking the landscape, scenery, road sign styles etc I managed to reverse engineer the exact streetview URL from the image.
Here's the image: http://i.imgur.com/lKeAXsE.png
And the streetview URL: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
Turning it into a game is a stroke of genius. I can see myself wasting a lot of time on this!
Challange me: http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6ODg0NSwidmVyc... You can rotate and zoom, but no googling and moving the car.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
After my first horrible miss I didn't think I could possibly win. But I did! http://www.geoguessr.com/?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTA5MDgsInZl...
Isn't that the original link? (I ask because I'm terribly curious about your first miss.)
This was submitted nearly two weeks back, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5682367 but it must have slid off the front page and into obscurity so I am glad it has come up again and received the attention it deserves. However, I am curious that the URL seems identical so how was it possible for a new submission to be made? I thought HN just added another vote to the original for duplicates.
No google help etc. score is http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTEzOTcsInZlc...
Excellent game!! I scored 17 349 but did allow myself to Google anything I could find (but for some places there are very few clues). The urls should be shorter! http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTczNDksInZlc...
The biggest problem is that South Africa, Mexico, and Australia all have extremely similar looking endless expanses of nothing.
Tougher than it seems. It's not so bad when you're in a city and there's some kind of writing and architecture, but often as not you're in the middle of nowhwere and it's all guessing based on rocks and trees.
What's great is when you guess australia correctly, but not where in australia, so you can still be off by thousands of km.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0...
One thing this game teaches you is that much of the world is rural.
My parents are totally good at this game. With no external aids, they got a location in Mallorca to within 50 meters.
I think you can get better at this game over time. I have seen my scores creeping up. Recognizing and sounding out languages will help a lot too.
