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LeRoc

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Kelly Alves: The architecture in that area is amazing!
Definitely. While you're there, I hope that once you'll get dropped in front of the Cathedral of Brasília too.

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Kelly Alves

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I actually did wander around a bit. It was fascinating.

GeoGuessr!

Russian for Everyone!

[ 22. July 2013, 22:57: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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LeRoc

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I go to Brasília relatively often. I'll be in this exact place again about 6 weeks from now.

I like going to Brasília, but there is one thing: I usually have nose-bleeds and cracked lips when I'm there for a couple of days. This is because Brasília is in a relatively dry area, and my body is now completely accostumed to the extreme humidity of the Amazon forest (sometimes we say to eachother that we're literally breathing water here).

I hope that you'll all take this into account when you're jumping around the globe like this [Biased]

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Kelly Alves

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(applies lip balm.)

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13,105 may not excite most of you, but I'm astonished. Usually I have long lines criss-crossing the oceans and continents.

Pearlie--giving thanks at the Guessometer Shrine

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Tortuf
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I was finally able to locate everything. 32,389 with the best one being 1 meter off.

Now, I can quit playing forever.

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my scores seem to be getting lower and lower - I need more dusty roads in Queensland and less pretty resorts I spend a long time wandering around!
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Just landed a guess at 0.011 km from the actual location!

I trust (not having kept up with the discussions here) that I'm not the only one who does a little research... In this case, I wandered till I saw an unusual street name and googled it with its cross-street. So some of you might consider that cheating. To me, it's the whole fun of the game.

Here's something odd, though:

A few times (including today), it lands me somewhere I can't imagine the Google cars could have possibly gotten. In this case, it was on a walkway that lead from one person's front door to another person's front door, with another walkway leading off in some direction... There was no way I could travel on any of the paths. I had to just make a stab, which of course was way off (I guessed somewhere in SE Asia, and it was in Central America). But how did they even get that image?!? All I could do was turn around in circles, too.

Pretty obscure, when I happen to know that Google Maps hasn't been down the street I grew up on in SE Michigan (just an hour outside of Detroit)!

ETA: This game is a nice way to while away the time as I'm recovering from some minor surgery.

[ 02. August 2013, 01:37: Message edited by: churchgeek ]

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churchgeek

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0.0004 km off in Whittier, AK! (On Billings St. near Eastern Ave.) What beautiful scenery!

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There was one time I found myself in a gated parking lot at the end of a back alley, with nowhere else to go, somewhere in what I guessed (correctly) was eastern Europe. Seriously, how do you get into a back alley paid parking lot like that one other than intending to get there?

There's also the time I found myself on a mountaintop and just figured someone from Google climbed a mountain carrying a camera, since there weren't any roads going there.

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LeRoc

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Ariston: There was one time I found myself in a gated parking lot at the end of a back alley, with nowhere else to go, somewhere in what I guessed (correctly) was eastern Europe. Seriously, how do you get into a back alley paid parking lot like that one other than intending to get there?
Sounds like a good beginning for a spy novel. Now I'm waiting for the beautiful Russian blonde keeping you at gunpoint [Biased]

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churchgeek

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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
quote:
Ariston: There was one time I found myself in a gated parking lot at the end of a back alley, with nowhere else to go, somewhere in what I guessed (correctly) was eastern Europe. Seriously, how do you get into a back alley paid parking lot like that one other than intending to get there?
Sounds like a good beginning for a spy novel. Now I'm waiting for the beautiful Russian blonde keeping you at gunpoint [Biased]
Yes! [Killing me]

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Kelly Alves

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To above: Ha! [Big Grin]

quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:

ETA: This game is a nice way to while away the time as I'm recovering from some minor surgery.

Muahhahaha. You say that now. You think Cracked is addictive? Wait until it's 4:30 in the morning and you are red eyed and muttering, "I know it's the Ukraine, I just know it is..."


I had to make myself. Make myself. stop playing these last two weeks because I could not resist the restart, and was neglecting my essays.

[ 02. August 2013, 03:25: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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Tortuf
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Just wait until you start muttering "I've seen that tree before . . ." to yourself.
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Kelly Alves

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I've been doing quick rounds lately, where I guess mostly based on terrain and if I get a total about 6000, I am happy.

lately I have been getting send to Israel. Quite thrilling!

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About 30 frames west of my first location in this game I saw a single-car accident in progress- a little red car had crossed over to the wrong side of the road and was jumping over the concrete barriers onto the shoulder. Yikes!

It was lucky it went off that side of the road though- it was a mountainy place in Brazil and the other side was a pretty steep drop.

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Kelly Alves

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WHOA! (after tracking it down.)

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Tortuf
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What I am waiting for is all the traffic heading towards the fighting duo and the wreckage.
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Kelly Alves

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(Shaken)

Ok, I took the challenge round, and wound up in a small, secluded parking lot behind a bunch of apartments, no way out, being menaced by two-- I believe the word is "yobs"?

Picked somewhere in Russia just to get the hell out of there. I was close, it was Georgia.

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quote:
Originally posted by Antisocial Alto:
About 30 frames west of my first location in this game I saw a single-car accident in progress- a little red car had crossed over to the wrong side of the road and was jumping over the concrete barriers onto the shoulder. Yikes!

The red car is stationary and wedged on the concrete barrier. A little further down the road, you can see the driver and passenger placing a warning triangle.
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Kelly Alves

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There's a stray bumper bouncing along in the road further on,too.

To be fair, I thought it was in progress, too, the back wheel was hanging in midair.

[ 04. August 2013, 05:18: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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orfeo

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Um, so...

I just did my first game back home on the computer.

I think 31,967 points is rather good, yes?

4/5 guesses within a kilometre. [Big Grin]

http://url.geoguessr.com/3Vns

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Kelly Alves

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DAMN good!

And welcome home!

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orfeo

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Thanks.

There were roadsigns for the first 4. The first one even had an intersection with TWO roadsigns. But I still had to guess the correct side of a West Australian town that was 5km away. Forest reserve side = win!

I'm happiest though with the last one, which turns out to be that mosque in Kazan a couple of other people have visited. First discovery: mosque. Second discovery: football stadium over the walls and a pyramid shaped building. Football stadium has Cyrillic. Hmmm...

Start googling muslim and Cyrillic. All those -Stan countries. Looking for pretty mosques and pyramids. Find a pyramid in Astana but it ain't the right one. Maybe they just like pyramids in Astana??

And then head the other way and... bloody hell, those are CROSSES. I've got a church and a mosque basically in the same complex.

...Russia? RUSSIAN mosque?

And google images immediately offered me a picture that had me yelling at the screen.

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Kelly Alves

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You made me go back there, via Google images. It's so beautiful.

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Pearl B4 Swine
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Three Australias in a row? Very discouraging.

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Kelly Alves

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That's messed up. You obviously got a couple of orfeo's turns.

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orfeo

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How do I type Cyrillic into Google Maps? I mean, I can work out that I'm on the corner of Soviet Avenue and Proletariat Street but I can't bloody find them... [Waterworks]


EDIT: OMG YES!! http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/russian.htm

[ 10. August 2013, 04:31: Message edited by: orfeo ]

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Kelly Alves

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Here ya go.

I forgot to add that to my "Russia for everyone" package. Locate character, type in character, copy-paste.

Well, FINE, then. Tits on a bull, that's me.

Ooo, yours is more shiny. [Cool]

[ 10. August 2013, 04:34: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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orfeo

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Okay, so was that worth about 50 minutes of my life?...Finding the exact intersection in a small Russian town?

[Big Grin]

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orfeo

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And now, I think I *could* be in my own country. But it's fundamentally unfair to have some kind of sign but have it unreadable because the sun is reflecting off it in the photo. Outrageous!

Edit: Not my own country. Still annoyed that the best clue available - a name, quite possibly a road name - isn't properly visible. Also the property for sale sign is totally illegible.

[ 10. August 2013, 05:03: Message edited by: orfeo ]

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orfeo

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25,630 after all that effort. My worst guess was in my own country. It's a country road somewhere along the eastern coastal section, how the blazes am I supposed to work out it's Victoria rather than New South Wales?

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orfeo

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And then 29,875.

*pulling computer power cord out now*

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Pearl B4 Swine
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Isn't boasting covered in one of the 10 "DON'T DO IT" Commandments?

Yes, give it a rest for a while orfeo. [Razz]

Pearlie [and I dont want to hear anything about you struggling to ID a pic] [Ultra confused]

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Kelly Alves

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Oh , leave him alone, Pearlie. I haven't seen such a touching record of someone's helpless slide into addiction since I read "Go Ask Alice." [Snigger]

[ 10. August 2013, 18:36: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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LeRoc

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orfeo: *pulling computer power cord out now*
I'm sure it's a battery powered laptop.

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orfeo

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When your first 2 guesses are 8 metres and 12 metres out, fate then fucks with you by placing you on a bend in a road that otherwise appears ramrod straight and featureless in both directions. [Frown]

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Just had my lowest game score, 1943, and individual place score, 30. I have only reached 20,000 once and anything over 17,000 is good for me. Now I am going to play in reverse, going for low scores. Same game really, it is just where do I stay away from. Soooooo addictive.

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I pinned down a location from a blurry road sign, thanks to Google,and I was so excited! Then I found that I had accidentally X'd out the Geoguess tab. When I tried to retrieve it, of course it was a new game. All I had was a coffee spoon for wrist-slitting.

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Done that.
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Here are some points -

What side of the road are they driving on?
ZA, Aus, S'pore, NZ, HK, and Macau, Japan, Britain and Ireland all drive on the left - most other places drive on the right.

What languages are signs in?
(Signs in HK are almost always bilingual; signs in Mexico near the American border often have English on them. If public signs are in English but private ones in other asian languages that's probably S'pore.)

What do the road-signs and markings look like?
If they vaguely follow the Vienna Conventions you know you are almost definitely not in US/Canada/Mexico; if they do not at all

What countries have Google Street view in the first place?
(Noticeably, /not/ mainland China, west Africa, India, Pakistan, M'ia, Indonesia, so if you see Chinese language countryside, it's probably Chinese Taipei, although some of HK is quite rural, of course; likewise Mexico is probably the biggest Spanish-speaking country on Google Earth.)

Especially if you know you're in the US/Canada, thinking in terms of "The Nine Nations of North America" helps. (What sort of industrial region are you in?) I find Anglophone Canada and the US almost indistinguishable on this, not that it matters too much if you're going for distance only.

How well developed is the place? (Northern Brazil is poorer and more rural than southern Brazil; if you know you're in Brazil at all you're almost certainly on the coast. South Africa's roads seem quite good; murram roads seem more likely to be Aus than ZA, perhaps as the former is drier and thus the Google car can take them more easily? Likewise potholes are more likely to be Brazil or Mexico than ZA.)

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Ariston
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Here's another tip: if you're here, click the double arrows to break every premise the game is based on. Trust me on this one.

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Sweeeet!

Now I have the greatest image of the Doctor glued to the dashboard shouting "Quick, gang! The Cybermen are about to take over Russia... no, it's the Ukraine...No, Moldova... crikey, a bridge over a river next to a church...."

[ 13. August 2013, 23:04: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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Herrick
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Thank you Ariston. How do I get back?

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Horseman Bree
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Look for the double arrows pointing towards you. Walk back until you see them.

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Ariston
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quote:
Originally posted by Herrick:
Thank you Ariston. How do I get back?

Why would you want to?

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Ariston
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Also, another piece of reference material: where Google Street View has been, mapped.

What I guess is most interesting is how patchy their coverage of Russia is, though I'm guessing that's mostly a matter of getting major cities in the interior first, then moving to the Russian Far East, etc. I also would have expected to see more of South America (especially Argentina) and southeast Asia, like the Philippines and Indonesia, but hey, what can ya do? It does make guessing where tropical areas are easier.

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My path is clear. I must use my Spanish Minor and travel the wilds of South America to provide more GeoGuessr locations.

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I'll be travelling here on Saturday. Is there anything in particular I should pay attention to? [Smile]

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I Do NOT like the new Google maps.

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