GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
Over 10,000 with start location only and no camera pans.
GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
Over 10,000 with start location only and no camera pans.
I agree that Googling/reverse image searching is "cheating" to the extent that you're no longer using your own knowledge of the world to try to guess a location, but the sheer amount of time and effort Denmark had to undertake to accurately pinpoint a middle-of-nowhere location is impressive (and/or indicative of masochism). It's certainly not a feat that I will try to match, though I enjoy limiting my search to Geoguessr's map and trying to use my own knowledge (and it adds an element of fun when I'm way the smurf off base). Though he's fortunate he didn't get one of those locations where you're stuck in one location and can't move, which has happened twice to me (once on some snowed-in street by a random house and once on a tennis court with people playing on it, weirdly enough).
I don't do no camera pans, though for the first few games I was doing no movement (but allowing zoom). Now I'll move a little bit if I see something potentially helpful, though after a minute or so I give up and guess.
I usually move around a bit if I think it'll be helpful or I'll pan, though I'm enjoying doing neither a fair amount. Really makes you think sometimes.
If I had gotten one of those (especially as my last one, after spending so much time on 3 & 4) I would have ragequit IRLOriginally Posted by Raistlin
I'll usually do camera pans to give a better view of the surroundings. I try not to move too much and use my knowledge of the surroundings if I can.
They dropped me right next to a huge Universal Studios monument thing. .065 I couldn't believe how far I was. :C
I first played this a few months ago when it was mentioned on xkcd, and had a few reasonable 10k+ games, but never went really obsessive about it. Tonight, however, I took things to an entirely new level. I didn't keep a log of everything I looked for, so you're going to have to settle for whatever brief summary I can scrounge together from memory (and the lines I pasted to IRC and IMs).
Before I start, poor Denmark still managed to beat me by 9 points (though if I had known he'd done such a thing when I did mine, I'd have made sure to get as close as possible, especially on the last one, when I just got lazy about it.)
The only tool I use apart from Geoguessr itself is another Google Maps window on another screen, so I can zoom around in a bigger window. I absolutely refuse to search for anything (which would have made so many of these so much easier).
Anyway, let's try to remember:
1) The first was some drab looking road that looked awfully Mexico-ish to me. The few signs I saw were in Spanish, and I eventually found a highway sign that read "SLP-75", which pinpointed the state and highway. Next step is to match side roads until I get reasonably close to my goal.
Your guess was 0.007 km from the correct location and gave 6479 points.
2) Also looked like Mexico to me, but the signs were different. Hadn't heard of the cities on the signs and the highway notation wasn't familiar either. But the language was Spanish, which coupled with gas selling in Euros didn't leave many choices. Since I had the name of a local city, I looked around on the map for that in Spain. Once again, it was an annoying rural road which meant tracking a road back to the start point.
Your guess was 0.05 km from the correct location and gave 6475 points. (Wasn't patient enough, I guess.)
3) Started right up next to a Mexican restaurant. At first thought it was maybe southern U.S., but the fact that cars were driving on the left coupled with definitely non-U.S. road signage quickly drew my attention to Australia. This was confirmed when I finally left the city and found a highway/distance sign. Rapidly found the relevant cities, and located myself within the city itself.
Your guess was 0.001 km from the correct location and gave 6479 points.
4) Another rural road that looked vaguely like Mexico or Australia. It was a left-hand drive country. Moved around a lot until I found some signs, but I'd never heard of anything, so it was difficult. Even found a highway number, but that wasn't very helpful. Noticed that the signs were in two languages. One was obviously English, but didn't know what the second was. After noticing that the city names were both Englishy and non-Englishy, I started to think of countries that might have been English colonies, and were large enough to contain large deserty rural areas. South Africa came up, and I was lucky enough to notice one of the city names I'd seen on a sign. A long search later, I finally got close enough to call it quits.
Your guess was 0.083 km from the correct location and gave 6472 points. (Should have been more careful.)
5) Finally, I ended up right next to a single-lane bridge along a rough dirt mountain road. I followed it a bit until I saw a sign that looked a lot like an Australian highway/distance sign. However, it was obviously a tertiary highway with a name like C611, so I wasn't able to find it on a map very quickly, and neither was I able to find the cities listed. I followed the road for a while in both directions and didn't really find anything helpful, other than the fact that it was obviously a left-hand driving situation and that the signs were in only English. That and the terrain made Australia the single most likely result. I went back to a map and looked for mountains in Australia, and luckily zoomed in right where the road I was looking for was. It still took some searching along that road, but the bridge I started out at turned out to be a labeled landmark.
Your guess was 0.092 km from the correct location and gave 6471 points. (Absolutely no excuse for not getting this perfect. I just got lazy.)
Conclusion:
You got 32376 points in total.
GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
In the end, it took about 2 hours and 15 minutes, maybe. If I hadn't restricted myself from googling, it would have gone so much faster. I often had city names almost right away, but no way to find them quickly.
I am definitely (at least temporarily) completely tired of this game. Sheesh.
Last edited by Relena Peacecraft; 07-27-2013 at 04:49 AM.
... you did that with basically just in-game info, using only a larger Google Maps window?
Jesus Christ, Jason. You are insane. xD
That's exactly what I said!
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I tried this! Australia looks like kansas JUST SAYING.
You got 8462 points in total.
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0.004km
FOUR METERS.
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