western australia seems to come up more than it should
― caek, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
it's thrilling to suddenly pop up somewhere you've been before, too.
yeah, I got Tulum which was really easy
― wk, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
the first one to give me the flash of recognition was hinton, alberta right in the middle of town on the yellowhead.
i'm going to liveblog a streetview drive across canada.
― dylannn, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
northern tip of norway + areas of australia (portland. the northwest coast) come up a lot for me. but no repeats.
― dylannn, Friday, 10 May 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Never got South America and mainland Asia once. Big amounts of Midwest, Japan and Australia and a few landmarks. Can't be random. (Regularly around 25k now)
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 11 May 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
well i mean places that have google street view aren't exactly an unbiased sample of planet earth.
― circles, Saturday, 11 May 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
australia is so awful
― ogmor, Saturday, 11 May 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
You missed with 8.324 km which gave 5837 points.
this is my best with the countryside ones (vineyards in norcal)
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
My o/h missed with half a kilometre and only got 3000-something points. I dunno if some are deemed harder than others... Or if it's a bit random?
― kinder, Sunday, 12 May 2013 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
haha i just searched up this thread to post that, i am internet slow i guess.
Ha, me too.
― i, norbit (jaymc), Monday, 13 May 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Game finished!
You got 19215 points in total.
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 13 May 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
damn
― caek, Monday, 13 May 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
take like 3000 of that off cuz one of them was right next to a shop saying dubrovnik, otherwise i'd have guessed randomly along the yugoslav adriatic coast
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 13 May 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
i want to break 20000. i've blocked off my afternoon.
― dylannn, Monday, 13 May 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
I thought I'd got one because I was next to a van which said it was from Fort Myers, except it was actually just outside Miami. Stupid movable vehicles.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 May 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
gah, 19169. got bored looking round cancun. nifty pinpointing of a road in the middle of nowhere in south africa.
― ogmor, Monday, 13 May 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
I got over 25000, due to landing next to places with googleable roadsigns (including an entrance to the Kruger National Park). Kostromo looks a nice place for a nosey about (that was the only one I was way off on, guessing it to be in one of the Baltic states)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/66975_543653468990167_1334380881_n.jpg
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
Oof. Uh. Harbin?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
it's reminding me of ho chi minh for some reason
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
no to those
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
guys how the fuck do you learn so much abt cities to be able to guess them like this, i want to learn to do this
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
i went to some and have seen footage of othera
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
others
go to enough places and it turns into elimination & working with the map
― anky, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
i want to go to all of the places
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
is it even in asia? i like the haerbin guess... decaying euro architecture and new apartment blocks. but i don't think it's china. if it is somewhere in asia, i want to say, like, a tough industrial south korean city like... busan? i don't know....
― dylannn, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
Looks superficially Asian, but my gut feeling now is somewhere formerly behind the Iron Curtain...
It's definitely not Korea. The cars are too colourful.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
the points against it being in asia are: the quietness of the street scene + no advertising or other shit all over the buildings + no obvious informal commercialization of public spaces + lack of development across the river
― dylannn, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
is it somewhere in scandanavia?
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
is it helsinki? is that what helsinki looks like?
That green building looks Russian or Ukrainian. Maybe Dniepropetrovsk?
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:44 (eleven years ago) link
Or Tomsk, idk.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
Has taken me about 100 goes on that geoguessr.com site to land somewhere I've actually been! (Cocoa Beach, FL)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed that the lack of signage seems odd for China. What put me over there was the way the courtyard is organized...but that might be a red herring. I like the Iron Curtain angle...maybe one of the Asian Soviet states?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
no hits yet but closer
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
The bottom row of buildings looks like classic imperial Russian architecture but I'm thrown by the marsh stretching of into the distance.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I bet it's Vladivostok.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
the copper roofed buldings suggest official architecture of former soviet union, the geography (low elevations to horizon, probable articial lake in proximity to river) suggests the eastern european plain, only the tower in the top left corner suggests post-FSU development, other buildings look relatively old, no development on far side of the river suggests relatively small city, narrowish river discounts lower volga
fairly sure it is either ukraine or russia, probably the latter
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Nakhichevan was a field of wheat away.
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
so... where was it?
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
not sure what a field of wheat is in this context
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
are you "nakhichevan"?
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
i think so
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
unless he means the place, but it doesnt look like anything in anatolia or the caucusus
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Volgograd, maybe?
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 17 May 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Not ashamed to admit I spent the better part of an hour combing Google Earth views of Volgograd, Rostov, Baku and a few other Caucasus-ish cities. I couldn't find any matches for the view in that pic. Stumped.
― Millsner, Friday, 17 May 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
mattybuddy
i need another hint, something....
― dylannn, Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
please.
― dylannn, Sunday, 19 May 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Kiev.
― Grampsy, Sunday, 19 May 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link