Guess the City

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.

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)

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Oof. Uh. Harbin?

it's reminding me of ho chi minh for some reason

no to those

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

i went to some and have seen footage of othera

others

go to enough places and it turns into elimination & working with the map

i want to go to all of the places

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....

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.

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

is it somewhere in scandanavia?

is it helsinki? is that what helsinki looks like?

That green building looks Russian or Ukrainian. Maybe Dniepropetrovsk?

Or Tomsk, idk.

Has taken me about 100 goes on that geoguessr.com site to land somewhere I've actually been! (Cocoa Beach, FL)

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?

no hits yet but closer

The bottom row of buildings looks like classic imperial Russian architecture but I'm thrown by the marsh stretching of into the distance.

I bet it's Vladivostok.

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

Nakhichevan was a field of wheat away.