Guess the City

http://i.imgur.com/x3i6VQI.jpg

some port nestled in a fjord in norway or iceland or the faroes.

http://i.imgur.com/o0qGSdh.jpg

almaty?

estes park?

uh nm

south of almaty

Quetta?

closer....

http://i.imgur.com/pdz92Kb.jpg

this remnds me of two places... is it male or bandar seri bagawan?

Jakarta

it is male

the last one i posted itt was abbotabad

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.)

xpost

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