Guess the City

the last one i posted itt was greymouth nz

http://i.imgur.com/OqNJKiT.jpg

somewhere in china

yeah

like shenzhen or something

holy fuck. correct.

ace

what made you think shenzhen?

the wide boulevard, and there's a familiar looking (for some reason) highrise on the left

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

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".

http://geoguessr.com/
it's a game!

rad!

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

love it

man I am surprisingly good at this although there seems to be a lot in Florida

I always am way off with places I'm Australia.

agh bloody Canada just tricked me with a red phone box

my rule is if it looks like texas but the middle line of the road is not yellow it's probably australia

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

yep same with the Australia rule!
I've had the same bridge three times but no other repeats.

I just got one that was totally inside a restaurant - no view of outside or anything :(

14873 highscore

northern canada/michigan/alaska look too similar

my restaurant one was this: not technically a streetview photo

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.

eatview xp

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.

my rule is if it looks like texas but the middle line of the road is not yellow it's probably australia

i was trying this but then it ended up being south africa :(

i started wandering around searching for clues which is not in the spirit of the game but
kills time
sometimes 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.

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.

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.)

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these can't be randomly chosen places right? it landed in the cathedral square of santiago de compostela, giving me 7000 points

got 10 metres from the actual location because it was an amply signposted three way junction on the finland/norway/sweden border

western australia seems to come up more than it should

it's thrilling to suddenly pop up somewhere you've been before, too.

yeah, I got Tulum which was really easy

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.

northern tip of norway + areas of australia (portland. the northwest coast) come up a lot for me. but no repeats.

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)

well i mean places that have google street view aren't exactly an unbiased sample of planet earth.

australia is so awful

You missed with 8.324 km which gave 5837 points.

this is my best with the countryside ones (vineyards in norcal)

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?

haha i just searched up this thread to post that, i am internet slow i guess.

Ha, me too.

Game finished!

You got 19215 points in total.

damn

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

i want to break 20000. i've blocked off my afternoon.

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.

gah, 19169. got bored looking round cancun. nifty pinpointing of a road in the middle of nowhere in south africa.