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Tortuf
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I have found a highly addictive game GeoGuesser.
You are given five Google Street View scenes* and you are to guess where in the world (literally) the scenes might be. You get to move around and zoom in and out as well as turn around in a circle. You get points for accuracy, not timing.
So far, my closest guess was 75 km off. My worst was somewhere in Canada when it was really Australia.
Give it a try and then post your closest guess and your highest score.
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*All of which have been uploaded to an NSA server.
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Ariston
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7.189 km for somewhere just shy of Lea Park, Alberta.
Which actually isn't that impressive, given that there's a sign advertising the Lea Park Pro Rodeo 10 miles north of the location.
Almost got Novosibirsk—it was a 50/50 toss-up between it and Ekaterinberg (again, reading advertising signs on the river overpass), and I figured that the Google pics of the Ekaterinberg skyline looked better. Still got Central Asia, but still.
Worst was putting northern Sweden somewhere in Colorado.
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Ariel
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5735 points apparently. I managed to guess correctly that one scene was indeed in North America, though in Colorado not in Salt Lake City where I'd dumped the cursor before realizing you could zoom the map to make your guess more precise.
Probably my most way out guess was thinking a scene of a bridge with fancy Victorian lamp posts was in New Zealand when it was actually in Poland.
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Ariston
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Okay, second play through: guessed one spot in southern Australia was in the Channel Islands of California. 97 points. Next one? Found the Marden Pharmacy in both the picture and on the map. 19 meters off, 6478 points. On a dirt road in a desert somewhere...wait, that dust cloud must have been kicked up by the van, and it's juuust slightly on the wrong side...we're in Australia. Further northeast than I would have thought, but hey. Next? Recognized that there's probably only one place with a mosque in what's obviously a kremlin—turns out Kazan. 113 meters off for guessing the wrong side of the mosque, 6470 points. Last one? Wow, that looks like Flanders. Hey, that looks like Flemish! Ah, a cafe with a beer sign! Yes, it's... well, only 71 km off, even if it's in the Netherlands. It counts, right?
18749 points, even if I got one on the complete wrong side of the planet.
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Ariel
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10230 points this time. I'm pleased to say that thanks to a helpful estate agent's sign I pinpointed a location in Northern France to within 120 miles.
Some part of Brazil does look awfully like West Africa though.
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Leorning Cniht
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
18749 points, even if I got one on the complete wrong side of the planet.
That beats my 14,517. I got one in Omsk within 10km, and another about 70 km (I guessed Hong Kong, but it was Macau), a couple about 1000 km away (but let's face it, one flat part of the US with fields looks pretty much like another) and one pretty hopeless (it was Brazil, and I said Oklahoma).
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Lucia
Looking for light
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10497 total points. Closest guess was a part of Canada I have visited. Only about 650km out....
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Piglet
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My first guess was far and away my most accurate - about 200km out (I guessed Holland and it was Germany). Thought I was being clever in one by guessing Australia because the road signs were on the left; it was actually South Africa. Didn't know they drive on the left too.
It's very addictive though - I may end up calling Tortuf to Hell ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Ariston
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
Thought I was being clever in one by guessing Australia because the road signs were on the left; it was actually South Africa. Didn't know they drive on the left too.
It's very addictive though - I may end up calling Tortuf to Hell ...
Oh, that one tripped you up too?
I think I may join in on the dogpiling when you make your call.
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Smudgie
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I haven't even got enough time to dogpile Tortuf...so much for getting up early to get some work done......... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
I'm not as good at this as some of you but am rather pleased to be getting the right country much of the time, even if sometimes quite some way out. I'm doing better than I thought I would, and that's quite satisfying enough for me. I have to admit how exciting I find it when I see a person, albeit ever so briefly, in the picture.
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Ariel
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Yes, someone in Brazil actually got off his bicycle to stare.
Best guess was thanks to a Korean road sign, so only about 100 miles out.
Given some pause for thought by a bilingual school bus that had both English and Hebrew on it, except that the buildings and landscape were pretty definitely North American.
Worst guess - mistaking Chile for Canada and being a few thousand miles out, but that could happen to anyone...
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Adam.
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OK, 13682. Score helped a lot by getting the parking lot of a national park in Spain where I managed to read one of the signs. Also, long straight American roads through cornfields are practically impossible to pin down!
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Ariston
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13557, no Googling, all of it rural roads through mountains. Turns out I really know my mountains, and can pick out where an Interstate is passing through the western Mojave Desert within a 50 km radius. Still not as good as yesterday's 22,000+ score, but that one handed me a couple really good clues, including Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti, which is about as recognizable as "major landmark in a national capitol" as you can get—and reading "Hotel Ukrane" on one of the biggest buildings kinda narrows down which national capitol you're in.
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Long straight roads anywhere are impossible to pin down. Worst guess was for Norfolk (Though I have ben on similar roads in Lincolnshire( which turned out to be Southern Australia, only 43 points for that.
Best guess was a parallel road to the one the picture was taken on in Sweden. The road sign to a nearby town helped.
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Horseman Bree
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Closest is 129 m., relying on a road sign that identified the actual (large) building in Hay, NSW
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Antisocial Alto
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I scored 10794 - with one truly lucky photo which actually showed a sign for the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
Other than that I mistook Mexico for Italy, Kansas for Wyoming, Japan for China, and Tasmania for Southern California. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Ariston
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Best "gee, I wonder where this is" photo so far: Lenin's Tomb.
Best "wow, that's a really cool place!" photo: either the main tourist drag of Pirenópolis, Brazil or the UBB-code breaking Kul Sharif Mosque in Kazan.
Worst blunder: confusing southeastern Oklahoma for Finland.
Best stroke of genius: learning exactly what the Canadian Rockies look like in Vancouver.
Least fair photo: a back alley carpark somewhere in a city, no moving around. I felt good enough that I guessed it was somewhere in Eastern Europe.
Best guesses for everything: Eastern European/Central Asian metropoloi; Western Canada (especially BC!)/eastern Alaska; northern Scandanavia; South Africa/Australia if it looks deserty; Brazil if it looks tropical.
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Tortuf
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22 km. That's it for tonight.
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Piglet
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22km???? That's almost indecent. I was mostly rubbish tonight, until the last one, which I got to within just over 300km, and I was in the right state! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Antisocial Alto
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After spending like an hour at it this time I improved my scoreby about 4000 points... This time my worst confusion was thinking western Ontario was California. (I couldn't remember where the Ojibway Indians live.) Also I mixed St. Johns, Newfoundland with Halifax, NS... sorry, piglet!
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Pearl B4 Swine
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First attempt: I wasn't playing correctly. How come you have a different starting point every time? I assumed that you were measuring from your original "start point". I don't geddit ![[Frown]](frown.gif) But I did ID all 5 pics pretty well. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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ken
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Five pictures of long straight roads with bushes to one side.
One had a roadsign in it. You can guess which:
Your guess was 1465.474 km from the correct location and gave 2054 points.
Your guess was 1945.198 km from the correct location and gave 1962 points.
Your guess was 1.984 km from the correct location and gave 6314 points.
Your guess was 11232.359 km from the correct location and gave 331 points.
Your guess was 10221.523 km from the correct location and gave 459 points.
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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I'm already happy when I guess the right continent! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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LOL, I got a windmill and people on bicycles now. I wonder which country that would be?
[ETA: It was Sweden! They're not playing fair!! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) ]
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84 metres out! Trivial though cos there was a cenotaph, a number of skyscrapers, roadsigns in Chinese and English, and mountains visible oin the horizon. We're not in Kansas any more...
Actually I'm prouder of missing another one by 120 km. No cars, no signs, no buildings, no mountains, straight road, pretty flat, northern hemisphere. Not much of anything. So I guessed the boring bit of Texas and I was right ![[Biased]](wink.gif) And I got 212 km on a picutre of somewhere in South Africa that had a different view of a similar mountain to ome I missed by 10,221 km miss the first time.
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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LOL, there was one in a Brazilian village with a beauty parlour showing the phone number with an area code.
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Either the world has a heck of a lot of long, straight, roads with no visible human habitation in sight, or else some masochist is actually searchign such places out to take pictures of them. I mean, I've been to lots of places, and I've hardly ever seen a dead straight section of road longer than a couple of miles or so (and not many of them in Britain) Here in London there are effectively no logn straight roads at all. Not even Edgeware Road or Shooters Hill, though they look straight on the map.
heck, I find Gower Street disturbingly straight so I deliberately avoid it when walking or cycling so I don;t have to look up and down it. And its about half a mile long.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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They have lavender fields in Alaska??? That's a long way from my guess in the South of France.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Yes!! There's one in Recife! I know exactly where this is.
[ETA: 14m from the correct location!]
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Grits
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I scored 18,149 points. I made two almost perfect guesses, two pretty darn close, and only one that was significant, although I was on the right continent.
Who has time for this???
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Dear Australians,
Could you please not be so far from the rest of the world?
You're costing me lots of points.
Ta much.
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Og, King of Bashan
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I just got a spot that I literally drove by 11 days ago, halfway between Cabo San Lucas Mexico and Todos Santos Mexico. it looked like pretty much any road side beer stop in Northern Mexico, and I was lucky enough to guess the western side of the country. I still managed to be 300 KM off, which I have learned is not bad for this game if you don't get any give-away clues.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Er... I'm just getting a very dark street now.
[ETA: I must be on the inside of a tunnel!]
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Og, King of Bashan
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For what it's worth, if it looks vaguely like rural Latin America, I have found it helpful to look for a beer sign- that will get you in the right country, at least.
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LeRoc
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Og, King of Bashan: For what it's worth, if it looks vaguely like rural Latin America, I have found it helpful to look for a beer sign- that will get you in the right country, at least.
Definitely! I already got a couple right in this way.
It seems to me that I only get a small number of countries though:- Canada
- USA
- Mexico
- Brazil (I usually get those within 150km)
- Norway
- Russia (the Cyrillic script is a giveaway)
- South-Africa
- Thailand (same for the Thai script)
- Japan
- Australia
I usually lose the most points because for many rural roads I don't have a clue whether they're in the US or in Australia.
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Og, King of Bashan
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I've spent enough time driving through Kansas and Texas to know what an American great plains rural road looks like. The only problem is that all of the small towns look exactly the same. I keep guessing Texas and getting Nebraska. The lack of a big Texas flag anywhere should be a giveaway.
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
I usually lose the most points because for many rural roads I don't have a clue whether they're in the US or in Australia.
US = driving right side of the road and measurements are in miles
Australia = driving on the left side of the road and the pictures will be upside down.
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LeRoc
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lilBuddha: US = driving right side of the road and measurements are in miles
Australia = driving on the left side of the road and the pictures will be upside down.
LOL, I read the first sentence and was already getting ready to post "I know that". Then I read the second sentence and you completely caught me there!
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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by ken:
84 metres out!
I was happy with my 1.935 km until I saw this.
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LeRoc
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Ahem:
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LeRoc: [ETA: 14m from the correct location!]
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lilBuddha
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Sorry, missed that amongst all those wrong continent posts...
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LeRoc
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lilBuddha: Sorry, missed that amongst all those wrong continent posts...
Yeah, rub it in
I was lucky though: when I'm in that part of Brazil, I pass by that place daily.
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Grits
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20,591 that time. Three right on the money, one barely off, one WAY off.
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lilBuddha
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.52km, but not really fair as it dropped me in Baydon. Right next to a sign.
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Leorning Cniht
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24,184. Not sure I'll beat that. Started off badly, mistaking Western Australia for the US midwest, but was dumped outside the main station in Frankfurt for the second, then a couple of giveaway roadsigns and a good guess at the part of Russia the Russian street scene was in.
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Tortuf
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.117 km. OTOH I have no patience for roads out in the middle of nowhere.
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Antisocial Alto
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Are we allowed to Google?
ETA I see a couple of people have mentioned searching and I am certainly going to start doing it if we're allowed!
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lilBuddha
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Aren't any rules against, AFAIK. Besides, how would we know?
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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
mistaking Western Australia for the US midwest,
People mention this, but they are very distinctive to me. The roads are different, even when they are in similar condition. The soil is different.
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