EoFF GeoGuessr Play Thread!

[Endless]

Even if you had the position of the sun or of shadows, how would that help? You don't know what time of day it is, and the sun could be in the north or in the south depending on which hemisphere you're in.

It doesn't really matter, long shadows would give me the east-west general direction, and short shadows north-south. It wouldn't be compass accurate, but it would save me a lot of time checking curves. For example long shadows crossing the road on the curve tell you it either comes from the north and turns west, or comes from the south and turns east, and you can ignore west-> south and east->north.
Of course, the closer near the poles you are, the less accurate it is.
However, regardless of where you are, it helps place each picture relative to the others when they are around the same spot (unless the submitter's evil and takes pictures spread hours apart) which can give info (a "U" shape building or half circle around a large courtyard, for example).

[Yerushalmi]

Even if you had the position of the sun or of shadows, how would that help? You don't know what time of day it is, and the sun could be in the north or in the south depending on which hemisphere you're in.

It doesn't really matter, long shadows would give me the east-west general direction, and short shadows north-south. It wouldn't be compass accurate, but it would save me a lot of time checking curves. For example long shadows crossing the road on the curve tell you it either comes from the north and turns west, or comes from the south and turns east, and you can ignore west-> south and east->north.
Of course, the closer near the poles you are, the less accurate it is.
However, regardless of where you are, it helps place each picture relative to the others when they are around the same spot (unless the submitter's evil and takes pictures spread hours apart) which can give info (a "U" shape building or half circle around a large courtyard, for example).

Those are really good points! I never considered that sort of information.

[Formalhaut]

With the way these two scrutinise pictures, I'm definitely pegging Yeru or Endless to win this.

[Denmark]

maaaaaaaaan I was off by 2 miles. oh well at least I was close!

[Yerushalmi]

maaaaaaaaan I was off by 2 miles. oh well at least I was close!

How'd you figure it out, Denmark?

[Denmark]

or actuallylooked at lists of what road signs look like and looked for a similar shape, NB was the closest (obviously correct). found NB 17, did some street viewing, got close enough with a guess. nothing too extraordinary.

[Formalhaut]

At first I was clueless, but after some creative thinking, I 'might' have got this one. I could still be completely wrong, but I'll explain more in the tag.

Round Five, FIGHT
Right, so I was stumped, then I saw that the second(?) picture had some writing on. Zooming in, it says "Buildcorp" or something. I google Buildcorp and find out the website address is AU, suggesting that it's Australian. I can't really tell if they have buildings overseas, but I'm not really good at this, so I just assumed to look around Australia. The other pictures strongly suggest that it's a university, and knowing that Dak went to university, I then got his Facebook and saw University of Queensland. I Google imaged the uni, and it looks awfully similar to the pictures. Therefore, I can infer that it is...

University of Queensland (I'm guessing the main campus), Australia.


I'm still probably wrong. Oh well. At least I used the 10 brain cells I have to use!

[Slothy]

The closest is probably Vivi22, though (unless Cim is Canadian? I don't think so but I'M NOT SURE), so I'm gonna go ahead and say Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

I do not live in Moncton (too many french people) and I didn't send those pics actually. I'd guess Blays did but maybe there are some other NBers hiding here. I'm also slightly embarassed I didn't get that, but I assumed we weren't allowing old pics and jumped to the immediate conclusion that it'd have to be somewhere where it was winter now so I didn't look too closely. Ah well. Lesson learned.

As for the current round: (SPOILER)I don't recall ever seeing trees like those in North America, and there's a barely visible flag which seems like it may be the Australian flag. I'm going to say Sydney Australia.

[Pumpkin]

A bit over a day left to get your guesses in!

[Rantz]

The closest is probably Vivi22, though (unless Cim is Canadian? I don't think so but I'M NOT SURE), so I'm gonna go ahead and say Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

I do not live in Moncton (too many french people) and I didn't send those pics actually. I'd guess Blays did but maybe there are some other NBers hiding here. I'm also slightly embarassed I didn't get that, but I assumed we weren't allowing old pics and jumped to the immediate conclusion that it'd have to be somewhere where it was winter now so I didn't look too closely. Ah well. Lesson learned.

Yeah, I only figured out your location as far as NB and then took a stab after that. shion mentioned that it was TSoL who submitted the pics, though.

[Pumpkin]

A bit under 12 hours left!

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

The closest is probably Vivi22, though (unless Cim is Canadian? I don't think so but I'M NOT SURE), so I'm gonna go ahead and say Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

I do not live in Moncton (too many french people) and I didn't send those pics actually. I'd guess Blays did but maybe there are some other NBers hiding here. I'm also slightly embarassed I didn't get that, but I assumed we weren't allowing old pics and jumped to the immediate conclusion that it'd have to be somewhere where it was winter now so I didn't look too closely. Ah well. Lesson learned.

I was born and raised in NB, the pics are from last Christmas when I went home. Also, I figured that since seasonally speaking Google Maps isn't always right (street view in winter gives you the same summery landscape) that it would be okay. Oddly enough the area in question is very English though the region at large is slightly more Francophone than Anglophone.

EDIT: My Guess: ACU Campus, Brisbane, Australia

[CimminyCricket]

MY GUESSThere is a Buildcorp logo (which I googled and it is Australian) and it looks like a university, so I googled universities in Aussieland and I clicked on most of them, but there wasn't too much google earth help. I can only see the corner of a building at the university of queensland, but it looks like the other buildings. UNI OF QUEENSLAND

[sharkythesharkdogg]

(SPOILER)University of Queensland for the same reasons everyone else has stated.

[Pumpkin]

9 hours and 2 people left to guess!

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