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Re: The Mongolian Meta

#11

Post by spaceman_2020 »

klysm wrote: post #9
Cheer2171 wrote: post #2

Is this whole thing just a strategy guide for playing Geoguessr in one country?

People go very deep into various “metas” for all of the countries

My god, and my wife says that I am nerdy about geography

I got nothing on the hardcore geoguessers

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#12

Post by klysm »

makin wrote: post #4

This is amazing, but surely analyzing the Google car itself would be against the spirit of the game for the hardcore players? Is it a standard tactic?

People have varying opinions on this, and there are browser extensions which will block the car out

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#13

Post by School-Cotton »

makin wrote: post #4

This is amazing, but surely analyzing the Google car itself would be against the spirit of the game for the hardcore players? Is it a standard tactic?

It’s a bit like asking if intentionally fouling to force free-throws and a possible turnover late in a basketball game is against the spirit of the rules. Maybe yes as they were originally conceived when it was a recreational activity years ago, but at the modern competitive elite level it’s very much part of the game.

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#14

Post by keybored »

makin wrote: post #4

This is amazing, but surely analyzing the Google car itself would be against the spirit of the game for the hardcore players? Is it a standard tactic?

Is being born tall against the spirit of basketball?

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#15

Post by shpx »

makin wrote: post #4

This is amazing, but surely analyzing the Google car itself would be against the spirit of the game for the hardcore players? Is it a standard tactic?

We can only hope that someday someone at Google takes the time to improve the car segmenter.

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#17

Post by alt227 »

This stuff must get outdated very quickly. Google could very well upload an entire new set of photos for Mongolian roads tomorrow. How do Geoguessers keep on top of that? Is there a central repo/db where they store the dates that each country, or even potentially province or town, get updated by google.

Im imagining some kind of RSS feed that Geoguessers all subscribe to which alerts them of a country update and they all scramble to catalog the new meta.

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#18

Post by keybored »

alt227 wrote: post #17

This stuff must get outdated very quickly. Google could very well upload an entire new set of photos for Mongolian roads tomorrow. How do Geoguessers keep on top of that? Is there a central repo/db where they store the dates that each country, or even potentially province or town, get updated by google. Im imagining some kind of RSS feed that Geoguessers all subscribe to which alerts them of a country update and they…

> This stuff must get outdated very quickly. Google could very well upload an entire new set of photos for Mongolian roads tomorrow. How do Geoguessers keep on top of that?

Refer to the Meta meta document.

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#19

Post by shpx »

alt227 wrote: post #17

This stuff must get outdated very quickly. Google could very well upload an entire new set of photos for Mongolian roads tomorrow. How do Geoguessers keep on top of that? Is there a central repo/db where they store the dates that each country, or even potentially province or town, get updated by google. Im imagining some kind of RSS feed that Geoguessers all subscribe to which alerts them of a country update and they…

The Mongolian photos are from 2015/2016, so not too quickly.
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