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GeoGuessr

tangoflash
tangoflash Posts: 10,782
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Don't know if any of you have tried this. http://www.geoguessr.com/

Basically, It uses google maps and drops you in a random place anywhere in the world that has been covered by a "street level" map. By travelling around and looking for clues, such as landmarks, street/town names (or even as I managed to do, I saw a website address on a business, so looked it up). Basically, by any means, try to locate your location as accurately as you can, scoring more points the closer you get. I've been as close as 0.01km and as far away as some place in southern Argentina, when if fact, it was in portugal.

I'm currently struggling to find my way around thailand (worked that much out by a flag) in some remote village...........................

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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Have a good trip.
  • sasquatch
    sasquatch Posts: 809
    Wow this is really interesting, having just tried it for 15 minutes I feel like travelling the corners of the world! :) My closest one yet is 7,29 km from a location in Miami. I have already seen some very cool stuff, I love it, thanks for sharing. Can I ask you what your 0,01 km location was?
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,782
    It was in Norway. After roaming for a few minutes, I came across a shop (whose name happened to contain the name of the town), I then looked it up on google, then the map and found the exact location I was standing in. Some not always that easy though. The U.S can be a right pain in the arse in certain areas, as they were filmed a few years ago, and back then they didn't take so many pics per second and the pixel rate is pretty bad making signs near on impossible to read, but this adds more of a challenge..................
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,255
    Just back from the Italan Alps. Brilliant. This will help the closed season fly by
  • souladdick
    souladdick Posts: 214
    You missed with 0.263 km which gave 6457 points. Kazan, Russia
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    I've got Santa's House
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
    Just ended up in Rikuzentakata. Unbelievable... have a look on Google Maps.
  • maybe_baby
    maybe_baby Posts: 2,609
    edited May 2013
    It's too easy to guess the countries...got bored very quickly.
  • sasquatch
    sasquatch Posts: 809
    Best one is now at the Congo River Rapids rafting ride in Busch Gardens Amusement Park in Tampa Bay - 0.354 km from the location
  • sasquatch
    sasquatch Posts: 809
    edited May 2013
    Callumcafc said:

    Just ended up in Rikuzentakata. Unbelievable... have a look on Google Maps.

    Wow, that is really sad. All those piles of metal, wood and concrete. Must have been strange to end up a place like that, you can really see something totally devastating has happened.
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  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Got a place on the island of Amami, in the middle of nowhere
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,467
    edited May 2013
    This is brilliant, I just got within 0.419km of a remote town's investment group in Canada. Now I've been dumped in what I think is an aquarium somewhere in Asia.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,242
    0.070 km away from a creche in Rio de Janiero
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,782
    For a quick game, on each location you can only rotate the camera, but can't move back or forth, then try to guess the country/area just from what you see. I just tried and got 4/5 countries correct (opting for Ukraine instead of Russia), but all were pretty far out on the actual location............
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,242
    Tough game Tango, 3/5 in the end, guessed Australia, New Zealand, Poland, USA, Saudi Arabia, answers were Australia, Australia, Poland, USA, USA!
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    First couple of goes I had to guess - had the countries right but not very close. First one was a motorway service station in Japan so hardly any signs in western alphabet and then when I went out onto the motorway most of the photos were taken in the dark and had terrible resolution. Second one I got dumped in a village in Brazil - one road in and out and the google street view ended about a mile outside the village on each side - only one sign in the village for an infant school with the same name as about 200 others and a motel on the outskirts which looked suspiciously like a brothel! Knew it was Brazil though because the signs were in Portugese.

    Third one though I got 0.002km away and 6479 points! Got dumped on the sea front in Peurto Vallarta in Mexico. Looks lovelly, but very touristy so there were loads of restaurants etc I could google.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Got 3 out 5 playing Tango's short game. Got 2 x USA and one in Sweden right (total fluke after I got dumped in the middle of a pine forest). Thought Norway was Newfoundland and Brazil was South Africa.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,833
    edited May 2013
    Looks like good time waster at work but doesn't really work on phone unless you can make map bigger , or am I being thick?
  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,418
    I just got the North Side of The Golden Gate bridge
  • AidenTheAddick
    AidenTheAddick Posts: 1,061
    Was just about to start an essay on Latin America until I saw this, thanks a lot!
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  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    What a brilliant game. Geography was always my favourite subject and I love looking at maps.
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Sounds good but I can't get it to open.
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 5,999
    God, that's hard!
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,722
    Love it!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    After loads of awful goes, being thousands of miles out and being wrong by whole continents I've just got to within 0.03km. Very lucky though, it landed right outside Sheringham railway station in Norfolk.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    Callumcafc said:

    Just ended up in Rikuzentakata. Unbelievable... have a look on Google Maps.

    Jesus. The fact the cars are dumped on every corner shows you how much of a mess it must have been.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Ha, ha. Second go it comes up with the hotel in Miami we stayed in! Result = 0.01km
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    edited May 2013
    Just got 0.06km away, was lucky enough to land right outside the main chair lift up to a ski resort in Wyoming.

    Then straight away got the Aussie outback, so hard!
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Good innit :0)
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    edited May 2013
    Just got 0.015 km - Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh.

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