GeoGuessr

mckerney · 05-13-2013, 11:21 AM

Get dropped at a random location in Google Streetview and figure out where you are.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Would you with about 11000 points in my first attempt.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 11:40 AM

We did this on FOFC like...two years ago?

With maps too, not this street view bullshit - which kinda makes it a "luck of the draw" whether you get any real clues.

I had one clue with french language, so that was easy. Then I had one with just a bridge with a truck on it...that was frigging useless.

britrock88 · 05-13-2013, 11:45 AM

Played for the first time the other day and also scored in the 11000 range.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 11:50 AM

Cool though. I seem to be checking in right around 9-10k. Lucky if I can get the country so far though on the ones that I've gotten. Had one where I could see .fi on a sign so i knew it was finland, but ended up on the wrong side of finland (how was i supposed to know).

Alan T · 05-13-2013, 12:08 PM

Just played and got 11904

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

seems pretty neat but pretty easy also. In most cases you can pan around enough to find something that gives some sort of hint in the way of language on a sign.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan T

Just played and got 11904

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

seems pretty neat but pretty easy also. In most cases you can pan around enough to find something that gives some sort of hint in the way of language on a sign.

depends on what pictures you get. i seem to get empty roadways with no buildings on at least 40% of my pictures so far.

lighthousekeeper · 05-13-2013, 12:25 PM

hmmm 68 pts. who knew australia looked so much like central florida.

AnalBumCover · 05-13-2013, 12:31 PM

9,469 pts.

You can travel along the roads until you find a sign or other familiar looking landmark. I found a sign that read "Welcome to Andamooka"

Blackadar · 05-13-2013, 12:41 PM

No traveling on the roads or Googing anything...just from the screenshots presented: 10,101. I was only fundamentally off on one (guessed Germany and it turned out to be Idaho), the rest of 'em I had pegged quite closely.

nilodor · 05-13-2013, 12:54 PM

14K on my first try because I had been to two of the places, one in BC and another in Brazil. Then 10-11K on my subsequent attempts with some half an earth errors.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AnalBumCover

9,469 pts.

You can travel along the roads until you find a sign or other familiar looking landmark. I found a sign that read "Welcome to Andamooka"

Yeah - I just realized that - that would have helped my scores I'm sure. That seems like cheating though. I think you should have to do it just from panning around at the location you're at.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Blackadar

No traveling on the roads or Googing anything...just from the screenshots presented: 10,101. I was only fundamentally off on one (guessed Germany and it turned out to be Idaho), the rest of 'em I had pegged quite closely.

Feel like this is the way it should be done, and this was my type of score.

lighthousekeeper · 05-13-2013, 12:55 PM

I cheated (googling/traveling) to get 28091. One thing I learned - there's lot of places in the world more beautiful than NJ.
28091

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 01:01 PM

It'd help if I could distinguish different types of asian characters.

Oregon looks like Mississippi.

Messed up a Russian one due to a deceptive sign I took a gamble on.

10084 without moving around.

nilodor · 05-13-2013, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by nilodor

14K on my first try because I had been to two of the places, one in BC and another in Brazil. Then 10-11K on my subsequent attempts with some half an earth errors.

Then my next couple of times, 5K, yikes...

AnalBumCover · 05-13-2013, 01:37 PM

With no traveling or googling, I got a 8k on my second trip, with the bulk of it coming from my recognizing the flag of Thailand.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 02:16 PM

Kinda takes the fun out of this when you get an empty stretch of roadway with literally nothing on it...no signs or anything.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 02:21 PM

Yeah...northern saskatchewan...nothing but trees and empty road.

spleen1015 · 05-13-2013, 02:24 PM

8502 with just spinning around

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 02:26 PM

LMAO...versus just "i dunno where that is...i'll drop a pin in the middle of the US" and ending up 185 km away. Nuts. haha.

spleen1015 · 05-13-2013, 02:28 PM

Farms in Poland look like farms in Nebraska?

whomario · 05-13-2013, 02:37 PM

some are damn frustrating, like getting dropped off on an empty road with very "normal" vegatation (some bushes, some grass, some small trees). So, argentina or russia ? Oh, it´s sweden ?

(to make up for it, the next one was next to the Stuttgart train station that i´ve been to a dozen times and another one where the city name was featured prominently on billboards)

18455 was my highest so far.

definitely a fun idea

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 02:51 PM

I wish there was a way to share the pics of some of the tough/decrepit pictures you get dropped into. I just got dropped into a bunch of beat-up, abandoned-looking apartments in the middle of nowhere Ukraine.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 02:53 PM

Alternatively, I just randomly plunked a marker down in the UK because I saw them driving on the wrong side of the street in this pic, and ended up 77 km away.

I guessed Chipping Norton (apparently) and it was actually Highclere.

Highest score yet (without moving around):11,049.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 02:58 PM

There's a Halifax in Australia? FML. Thought I had that one.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 03:25 PM

10,499

Got lucky on a couple more obvious ones (the Alaska and CA ones).

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DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 08:19 PM

New non-moving high score for me - 11,995. Should have been spot-on on the one in France, I saw a sign with the town's name, but didn't zoom in the map far enough to see it and got tired of scanning the shoreline of the whole damn country.

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Blackadar · 05-13-2013, 08:54 PM

Talk about luck...14,879 points off of blind guesses.

The Florida Keys was pretty easy, but...some random farm field in the Ukraine? An intersection in the middle of Brazil? Some gardens in Japan? A two lane dirt road in the brush in Australia? Nailed 'em all by randomly clicking on the map.

It ain't getting any better than that, so I quit.

Note I only go off of that picture and I don't move the map forwards or backwards.

bhlloy · 05-13-2013, 09:11 PM

I just got 18k with no moving the map... was able to identify Sao Paolo, Brazil and Ketchikan, AL from signs, and then had the most lucky guess of some dirt road in Australia within 200km FTW

EagleFan · 05-13-2013, 09:15 PM

Cool.

Holy sh*t. 3rd Round I am placed in the middle of a dirt road with NOTHING around.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by EagleFan

Cool.

Holy sh*t. 3rd Round I am placed in the middle of a dirt road with NOTHING around.

brazil, australia, northern canada

those are your 3 best guesses

kcchief19 · 05-13-2013, 10:37 PM

12,326 on first try. Only missed the first one by about 20 miles ... I guess it was somewhere in Miami. Had the right country on a Norway location, and lost a coin flip on an Australian/New Zealand spot. Thought I had another American one because the mailbox looked like the Omaha World-Herald ... instead in was western Pennsylvania.

JonInMiddleGA · 05-13-2013, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

brazil, australia, northern canada

those are your 3 best guesses

followed by Mississippi

JonInMiddleGA · 05-13-2013, 10:40 PM

My son said he saw repeat photos by like the third game. Is that normal?

sabotai · 05-13-2013, 10:40 PM

I saw some repeats too

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 11:46 PM

6km away because i was able to see cozumel on a sign right in front of me. Niiiiiice.

DaddyTorgo · 05-13-2013, 11:58 PM

Asia-focused

New high score. Picked out a canal and properly placed it within 88km by luck to garner a good 3333 points. That plus a bunch of Asian signs (although I still ended up a fair ways off in Japan) carried me to 12,555 without moving.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Julio Riddols · 05-14-2013, 12:07 AM

This is way more fun if you don't move around and just try to judge based on the plant life, street markings, building style, sun location, language of anything written, types of cars on the road, what side of the road the pic comes from, etc. So far my best is just under 11k, but I have done it about 30 times now.

Anyone get a lot of duplicate pictures?

EagleFan · 05-14-2013, 06:48 PM

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Julio Riddols · 05-15-2013, 01:27 AM

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

fiancee and I got 15424 just standing still. She nailed a location in Miami to within 12 km.

revrew · 05-15-2013, 02:02 AM

20,281 on my first try. I LOVE this.

Narcizo · 05-15-2013, 03:00 PM

46 meters off of a place in Dunedin in New Zealand. Got Dunedin Keysmiths for the city and then Castle Street/Anzac Square intersection to narrow it right down.

All went to pot after that of course (Poland/Montana - what's the difference)? But 46 meters!

QuikSand · 05-15-2013, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Narcizo

46 meters off of a place in Dunedin in New Zealand. Got Dunedin Keysmiths for the city and then Castle Street/Anzac Square intersection to narrow it right down.

All went to pot after that of course (Poland/Montana - what's the difference)? But 46 meters!

TRUE STORY

I hadn't had much luck playing with this (especially since it kept crashing by iPad browser), but saw that post and thought "hey, maybe just getting one really good guess is the way to go."

So, I click on the link at the top.

It's a picture. Um, I recognize it. Not vaguely, but... it's the beach at Ocean City Maryland. Right in sight, not even one click, I see a restaurant where I have eaten at least ten times. I know exactly where this is. When I place my pin, I'm trying to get into the right quadrant of the exact intersection... I'm on this.

Quote:

Your guess was 0.004 km from the correct location and gave 6479 points.

SUCK IT BISHES

sabotai · 05-15-2013, 03:37 PM

Your guess was 0.001 km from the correct location and gave 6479 points.

Peregrine · 07-07-2016, 10:50 PM

I hate to thread necro but just discovered this game - lot of fun!

Shkspr · 07-07-2016, 11:48 PM

I think I preferred the game three years ago.

05-13-2013, 11:40 AM	#2
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	We did this on FOFC like...two years ago? With maps too, not this street view bullshit - which kinda makes it a "luck of the draw" whether you get any real clues. I had one clue with french language, so that was easy. Then I had one with just a bridge with a truck on it...that was frigging useless. Last edited by DaddyTorgo : 05-13-2013 at 11:54 AM.

05-13-2013, 12:08 PM	#5
Alan T Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mass.	Just played and got 11904 GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world! seems pretty neat but pretty easy also. In most cases you can pan around enough to find something that gives some sort of hint in the way of language on a sign. __________________ Couch to ??k - From the couch to a Marathon in roughly 18 months.

05-13-2013, 12:25 PM	#7
lighthousekeeper College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000	hmmm 68 pts. who knew australia looked so much like central florida. __________________ ...

05-13-2013, 12:31 PM	#8
AnalBumCover College Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: La Mirada, CA	9,469 pts. You can travel along the roads until you find a sign or other familiar looking landmark. I found a sign that read "Welcome to Andamooka" __________________ ABC's Game Giveaway list

05-13-2013, 12:55 PM	#13
lighthousekeeper College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000	I cheated (googling/traveling) to get 28091. One thing I learned - there's lot of places in the world more beautiful than NJ. 28091 __________________ ...

05-13-2013, 11:45 AM	#3
britrock88 Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Madison, WI	Played for the first time the other day and also scored in the 11000 range.

05-13-2013, 11:50 AM	#4
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	Cool though. I seem to be checking in right around 9-10k. Lucky if I can get the country so far though on the ones that I've gotten. Had one where I could see .fi on a sign so i knew it was finland, but ended up on the wrong side of finland (how was i supposed to know).

05-13-2013, 12:41 PM	#9
Blackadar Retired Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fantasyland	No traveling on the roads or Googing anything...just from the screenshots presented: 10,101. I was only fundamentally off on one (guessed Germany and it turned out to be Idaho), the rest of 'em I had pegged quite closely.

05-13-2013, 12:54 PM	#10
nilodor College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: calgary, AB	14K on my first try because I had been to two of the places, one in BC and another in Brazil. Then 10-11K on my subsequent attempts with some half an earth errors.

05-13-2013, 01:01 PM	#14
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	It'd help if I could distinguish different types of asian characters. Oregon looks like Mississippi. Messed up a Russian one due to a deceptive sign I took a gamble on. 10084 without moving around. __________________ Get bent whoever hacked my pw and changed my signature.

05-13-2013, 01:37 PM	#16
AnalBumCover College Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: La Mirada, CA	With no traveling or googling, I got a 8k on my second trip, with the bulk of it coming from my recognizing the flag of Thailand. __________________ ABC's Game Giveaway list

05-13-2013, 02:16 PM	#17
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	Kinda takes the fun out of this when you get an empty stretch of roadway with literally nothing on it...no signs or anything.

05-13-2013, 02:21 PM	#18
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	Yeah...northern saskatchewan...nothing but trees and empty road.

05-13-2013, 02:24 PM	#19
spleen1015 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003	8502 with just spinning around __________________ Why choose failure when success is an option?

05-13-2013, 02:26 PM	#20
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	LMAO...versus just "i dunno where that is...i'll drop a pin in the middle of the US" and ending up 185 km away. Nuts. haha.

05-13-2013, 02:28 PM	#21
spleen1015 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003	Farms in Poland look like farms in Nebraska? __________________ Why choose failure when success is an option?

05-13-2013, 02:37 PM	#22
whomario Pro Starter Join Date: Jul 2007	some are damn frustrating, like getting dropped off on an empty road with very "normal" vegatation (some bushes, some grass, some small trees). So, argentina or russia ? Oh, it´s sweden ? (to make up for it, the next one was next to the Stuttgart train station that i´ve been to a dozen times and another one where the city name was featured prominently on billboards) 18455 was my highest so far. definitely a fun idea __________________ “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

05-13-2013, 02:51 PM	#23
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	I wish there was a way to share the pics of some of the tough/decrepit pictures you get dropped into. I just got dropped into a bunch of beat-up, abandoned-looking apartments in the middle of nowhere Ukraine. Last edited by DaddyTorgo : 05-13-2013 at 02:51 PM.

05-13-2013, 02:53 PM	#24
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	Alternatively, I just randomly plunked a marker down in the UK because I saw them driving on the wrong side of the street in this pic, and ended up 77 km away. I guessed Chipping Norton (apparently) and it was actually Highclere. Highest score yet (without moving around):11,049. GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world! Last edited by DaddyTorgo : 05-13-2013 at 02:54 PM.

05-13-2013, 02:58 PM	#25
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	There's a Halifax in Australia? FML. Thought I had that one. Last edited by DaddyTorgo : 05-13-2013 at 02:58 PM.

05-13-2013, 03:25 PM	#26
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	10,499 Got lucky on a couple more obvious ones (the Alaska and CA ones). GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

05-13-2013, 08:19 PM	#27
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	New non-moving high score for me - 11,995. Should have been spot-on on the one in France, I saw a sign with the town's name, but didn't zoom in the map far enough to see it and got tired of scanning the shoreline of the whole damn country. GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world! Last edited by DaddyTorgo : 05-13-2013 at 08:20 PM.

05-13-2013, 08:54 PM	#28
Blackadar Retired Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fantasyland	Talk about luck...14,879 points off of blind guesses. The Florida Keys was pretty easy, but...some random farm field in the Ukraine? An intersection in the middle of Brazil? Some gardens in Japan? A two lane dirt road in the brush in Australia? Nailed 'em all by randomly clicking on the map. It ain't getting any better than that, so I quit. Note I only go off of that picture and I don't move the map forwards or backwards. Last edited by Blackadar : 05-13-2013 at 08:55 PM.

05-13-2013, 09:11 PM	#29
bhlloy Coordinator Join Date: Nov 2003	I just got 18k with no moving the map... was able to identify Sao Paolo, Brazil and Ketchikan, AL from signs, and then had the most lucky guess of some dirt road in Australia within 200km FTW

05-13-2013, 09:15 PM	#30
EagleFan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA	Cool. Holy sh*t. 3rd Round I am placed in the middle of a dirt road with NOTHING around. __________________ The EagleFan YouTube Channel - Reactions Soarin' & Scratchin' YouTube Channel - We react to music, videos, TV, we talk, we are planning some field trips Soarin' & Soothin' - Meditation, Relaxation, and Sleep Aid; mental health is important

05-13-2013, 10:37 PM	#32
kcchief19 Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Kansas City, MO	12,326 on first try. Only missed the first one by about 20 miles ... I guess it was somewhere in Miami. Had the right country on a Norway location, and lost a coin flip on an Australian/New Zealand spot. Thought I had another American one because the mailbox looked like the Omaha World-Herald ... instead in was western Pennsylvania.

05-13-2013, 10:40 PM	#34
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	My son said he saw repeat photos by like the third game. Is that normal? __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

05-13-2013, 10:40 PM	#35
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	I saw some repeats too

05-13-2013, 11:46 PM	#36
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	6km away because i was able to see cozumel on a sign right in front of me. Niiiiiice.

05-13-2013, 11:58 PM	#37
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	Asia-focused New high score. Picked out a canal and properly placed it within 88km by luck to garner a good 3333 points. That plus a bunch of Asian signs (although I still ended up a fair ways off in Japan) carried me to 12,555 without moving. GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

05-14-2013, 12:07 AM	#38
Julio Riddols College Prospect Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Bryson Shitty, NC	This is way more fun if you don't move around and just try to judge based on the plant life, street markings, building style, sun location, language of anything written, types of cars on the road, what side of the road the pic comes from, etc. So far my best is just under 11k, but I have done it about 30 times now. Anyone get a lot of duplicate pictures? __________________ Recklessly enthused, stubbornly amused. FUCK EA

05-14-2013, 06:48 PM	#39
EagleFan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA	GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world! __________________ The EagleFan YouTube Channel - Reactions Soarin' & Scratchin' YouTube Channel - We react to music, videos, TV, we talk, we are planning some field trips Soarin' & Soothin' - Meditation, Relaxation, and Sleep Aid; mental health is important

05-15-2013, 01:27 AM	#40
Julio Riddols College Prospect Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Bryson Shitty, NC	GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world! fiancee and I got 15424 just standing still. She nailed a location in Miami to within 12 km. __________________ Recklessly enthused, stubbornly amused. FUCK EA Last edited by Julio Riddols : 05-15-2013 at 01:28 AM.

05-15-2013, 02:02 AM	#41
revrew Team Chaplain Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Just outside Des Moines, IA	20,281 on my first try. I LOVE this. __________________ Winner of 6 FOFC Scribe Awards, including 3 Gold Scribes Founder of the ZFL, 2004 Golden Scribe Dynasty of the Year Now bringing The Des Moines Dragons back to life, and the joke's on YOU, NFL! I came to the Crossroad. I took it. And that has made all the difference.

05-15-2013, 03:00 PM	#42
Narcizo Pro Rookie Join Date: Jan 2006	46 meters off of a place in Dunedin in New Zealand. Got Dunedin Keysmiths for the city and then Castle Street/Anzac Square intersection to narrow it right down. All went to pot after that of course (Poland/Montana - what's the difference)? But 46 meters!