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― polski smak (clouds), Friday, 15 February 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://i48.tinypic.com/16hrk2p.jpg
― bertrim hapaz (anky), Friday, 15 February 2013 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/x3i6VQI.jpg
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Friday, 22 February 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
some port nestled in a fjord in norway or iceland or the faroes.
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 22 February 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/o0qGSdh.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Sunday, 3 March 2013 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
almaty?
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Sunday, 3 March 2013 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
estes park?
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
uh nm
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
south of almaty
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Quetta?
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
closer....
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pdz92Kb.jpg
― clouds, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
this remnds me of two places... is it male or bandar seri bagawan?
― Jibe, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Jakarta
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
it is male
― clouds, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
the last one i posted itt was abbotabad
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 9 May 2013 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
the last one i posted itt was greymouth nz
― anky, Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OqNJKiT.jpg
― clouds, Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
somewhere in china
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah
― clouds, Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
like shenzhen or something
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
holy fuck. correct.
― clouds, Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
ace
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
what made you think shenzhen?
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
the wide boulevard, and there's a familiar looking (for some reason) highrise on the left
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
the boulevard does suggest a newer city (not that the ccp is afraid of eminent domain)
i used to know the names of every largish city and there is something dispiriting about finding out about all of these places like shangrao with 5m people and i know nothing about them
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
my friend, when travelling in China, reported that when he talked to people on trains and asked where they were from he would regularly get replies like "oh a place called Haikou, you wouldn't have heard of it, only 2m people live there".
― Neil S, Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://geoguessr.com/it's a game!
― kinder, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
rad!
― caek, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
haha i just searched up this thread to post that, i am internet slow i guess. also i failed to recognize Deadhorse, Alaska so i hang my head in shame now
― ciderpress, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
love it
― ogmor, Friday, 10 May 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
man I am surprisingly good at this although there seems to be a lot in Florida
― kinder, Friday, 10 May 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
I always am way off with places I'm Australia.
― Jeff, Friday, 10 May 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
agh bloody Canada just tricked me with a red phone box
― kinder, Friday, 10 May 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
my rule is if it looks like texas but the middle line of the road is not yellow it's probably australia
― caek, Friday, 10 May 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
i'm starting to get repeats, i was hoping these were procedurally generated somehow but it seems like there's just several dozen preset ones
― ciderpress, Friday, 10 May 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
yep same with the Australia rule!I've had the same bridge three times but no other repeats.
― kinder, Friday, 10 May 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
I just got one that was totally inside a restaurant - no view of outside or anything :(
― kinder, Friday, 10 May 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
14873 highscore
northern canada/michigan/alaska look too similar
― dylannn, Friday, 10 May 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
my restaurant one was this: not technically a streetview photo
― kinder, Friday, 10 May 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
wow, I did better than I thought. 11269. when I saw red dirt I thought alabama or somewhere in the south, but then I saw a sign that said "railway crossing" and correctly guessed australia.
― wk, Friday, 10 May 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
eatview xp
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 May 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
This is a nice idea but boy do I wish it involved less clicking - like Geosense where you just smack down your pin and that's that.
Nice way to make you realize how much of the world now basically looks like suburban Knoxville though. Ugh.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 May 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
i was trying this but then it ended up being south africa :(
― circles, Friday, 10 May 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
i started wandering around searching for clues which is not in the spirit of the game but kills timesometimes you're somewhere familiar and you can take a good guess from the hints around you, oh i might be in the ukraine but sometimes it's just a blind great paranoid wander down a dirt road in the boreal forest with no signs of life except suddenly a dog on the road, suddenly an unreadable highway sign, a crossroads and you have to decide which way will bring you to some hint of your location faster. you eventually hit pavement and see a few big trucks passing you. but any streetsign could be thousands of clicks, thousands of screen reloads in either direction. you might be in northern michigan or northern saskatchewan.
― dylannn, Friday, 10 May 2013 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
it's thrilling to suddenly pop up somewhere you've been before, too.
we used to play this at work in teams, one team selects a spot and fullscreens streetview. rule is no moving, no changing the view, can't touch the mouse. we developed a scoring system based on correctly guessing continent, country, city, and arbitrarily awarded bonus points for extra details.
― dylannn, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
I think that's the appeal of the game! Got the Nasa center wrong, and I hate myself for it. (Scoring regurlary around 13k-15K.)
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
these can't be randomly chosen places right? it landed in the cathedral square of santiago de compostela, giving me 7000 points
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 10 May 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
got 10 metres from the actual location because it was an amply signposted three way junction on the finland/norway/sweden border
― caek, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link