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Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

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Post by aidenn0 »

I managed to get 24m on one without using Google, but it put me next to a well known tourist restaurant in Ibiza. It was well enough known that once I zoomed in enough on the island it actually was listed.

That was actually my best game; I got the continent right every time. The most disappointing was where I recognized an Australian Ice Cream chain (one of my friends really liked it) but guessed East Coast when it was in Perth.

http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTU1MDIsInZlc...

Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

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Post by EvaK_de »

stplsd wrote: post #53

Challange me: http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6ODg0NSwidmVyc... You can rotate and zoom, but no googling and moving the car.

You won the challenge with 10667 points against 8845.

Seems like you missed see the "Brisbane Whale Tours" ad...? ;-)

Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

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Post by cdjk »

human_error wrote: post #88

Interestingly my guesses based on roads (when it was middle of nowhere) were all wrong. I always mixed Australia and South American countries. Cool game though.

Google street view doesn't have very good coverage in South America - pretty much only Brazil, with a little bit of Chile. Africa has similarly bad coverage, except South Africa.

Knowing the rough outlines of this map will help:

http://www.google.com/help/maps/streetview/learn/where-is-st...

Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

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Post by wizofaus »

dragonikola wrote: post #23
btilly wrote: post #2

My first try was http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6NzI3OSwidmVyc... (score 7279). Holy long URL! (I've been meaning to try this out since http://xkcd.com/1214/ brought its existence to my attention.)

Damn, you beat me. Right down to the line too. The last one--Czech Republic--made all the difference. Perhaps you know the language or something, you got it dead on. We both bombed on South Africa and Australia, but I beat you for Utah and Russia :>

32211: goo.gl/bruYH

One of them was one I'd already had before, so it's obviously not completely random.

Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

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Post by eru »

carlob wrote: post #16
johnpowell wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Cologne cathedral was also rather easy to identify. But all those rural roads prove to be hard.
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