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Re: Where in the USA is this?

#91

Post by supportengineer »

bhaney wrote: post #60

The 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…

Because there were five guesses, I thought they would be five different photos from five different geographic locations

Re: Where in the USA is this?

#92

Post by stronglikedan »

bhaney wrote: post #60

The 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…

You think that's bad. I guessed in three, after realizing the first two photos had the name of the town in them!

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by joeframbach »

postmodest wrote: post #79
brezelgoring wrote: post #34

I 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 off by 6 miles because the actual pin is off by six miles for the last picture. Also, as an American, the fact that I recognized the first picture to within 50 miles makes me sad. Our bridges should not look like that, even there.

Agreed. I grew up in Pittsburgh, but even after 10 years after moving away, I immediately recognized the first picture as "somewhere in West Virginia" as if instinctually.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by nathancahill »

brezelgoring wrote: post #34

I 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

Got 23 miles on the first guess!

Spoiler: https://i.imgur.com/HK6sNsf.png

Re: Where in the USA is this?

#98

Post by nneonneo »

bhaney wrote: post #60

The 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…

If you click the question mark, you get the help page which clarifies the data used:

> ~500,000 geo-tagged images from Wikimedia Commons. Each day, a random location is generated, along with five photos within five miles.

In a remote area, there will likely only be a few notable landmarks nearby so you can expect to see many pictures of a single landmark. This might be why people think the pictures are supposed to of the same place.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

#99

Post by pozdnyshev »

bhaney wrote: post #60

The 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…

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Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by tofof »

Unimpressed by this game. The accuracy on the scale is off by as much as 25%, as can be seen here: https://i.imgur.com/NOvqCnV.png. As the only information you're given other than a new photo is the distance, this is a serious problem.

What's worse, the 'correct' location radius doesn't even include the locations where all the photos were taken!

SPOILER FOR GAME #60:

Game #60 has a clue that shows YOU ARE HERE: https://i.imgur.com/98OXlal.png which is exactly here (google maps [1]) https://i.imgur.com/KdN4OCh.png which corresponds exactly to my guess location https://i.imgur.com/eCy97r6.png. However, they claim that the correct location is here: https://i.imgur.com/cSasI3g.png or https://i.imgur.com/ChuisIx.jpeg (google [2]), which is actually 9.5 miles away and outside their 5 mile radius, so it scored me as missing by 4.5 miles.

It's quite simply unacceptable to claim that all the photos are of the same place and then have the exact location within the photo not be within the accepted answer radius. Geoguesser, for example, REQUIRES you to identify the exact location within ~150 meters (in the worldwide mode) and they are actually correct with that degree of precision. This error of 9.5 miles is 15,000 meters away.

1: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3419792,-122.7415299,14.62z?...

2: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2970892,-122.5563029,1891m/d...

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