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Where in the world is [GeoGuessr]?
Fearghaill
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So this is the coolest thing I've seen done with the Google Maps API probably ever
The game drops you into a random Street View location, and you need to guess where you are. You can use the Street View navigation to move around a bit and look for clues, but you can't zoom out and check the map. Once you think you know where you are, you click on the smaller map in the corner, and submit your guess. Points are awarded based on how many kilometers you are from the location, and you get 5 locations/guesses each round.
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The game drops you into a random Street View location, and you need to guess where you are. You can use the Street View navigation to move around a bit and look for clues, but you can't zoom out and check the map. Once you think you know where you are, you click on the smaller map in the corner, and submit your guess. Points are awarded based on how many kilometers you are from the location, and you get 5 locations/guesses each round.
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Russia is hard. So is Alaska.
I cheated extensively with google so count me out of the competition
Fun fact: My fifth round landed me directly outside this place
That is oddly close to me. Like 15 miles away.
I got one where it literally put me at the foot of aztec temple.
Edit: and I was super wrong
Also, my 4th round just plunked me on a dirt road in the middle of no where. I'm going to go with "Lucky if I hit the right continent" on this one.
Australian outback is a good bet
It could also be plenty of places in the southern U.S. as well as plenty of places throughout South America. It could even be somewhere in Africa. The only way to make a reasonable guess would be if I recognized specific plants that I knew had a limited range.
And Russia is too dang big
my proudest moment has been confusing norwegian and new zealand fjordland though
Ok, you ended up being pretty close! I clicked down the road and came to an intersection with a road name and then looked up the road in Australia. After checking several intersections I found the right one near the Moore River Reserve just north of Perth.
hahahaha nope Finland!
Starting my second game and "Scandanavian Lake" does a poor job of narrowing it down without outside googling the unpronounceable 18 syllable name, dammit...
next one was a coral reef
and the one that gave me Vice City flashbacks actually was Miami. awesome!
It wasn't rome but gosh darn did it look like a place in roome I stood it!
BAD NEWS: Forgetting what coast of Canada Cape Breton is on. Guessing west. Being told east.
if you're looking stuff up you're playing it wrong
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otherwise it's just guesswork.
a high score without research is definitely more impressive though
I'm probably the worlds foremost expert on a certain 10m stretch of road in a South African fishing village
it's because of how smart I am
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Also, interestingly, I just got plopped in a landmark panorama spot that wasn't from the normal streetview vehicle and couldn't move anywhere from it, so that was a different kind of challange.
25k points without googling. You shouldn't be allowed to call your business Upper Iowa Welding if you're actually across the border in Minnesota! And resolution too low to read the road signs is shit.