Google Maps Streetview

This is all I want to do all day.

Was greatly helped in one round by the truck that said a company name and "SCOTLAND" on it. Guessed outskirts of Glasgow, but it was Aberdeen.

Was very proud of guessing w/in 100 km of a place in Argentina b/c it looked arid and the truck in the picture was a Mercedes.

New high score.

My first try: 17,230
Was helped greatly by two road signs in somewhat clear view.

Not helped by Brazilian farm looking like the Great Plains of NoAm.
Also not helped by guessing that remote African rolling highway was located in inland South Africa, not the Northwest corner.

I'm lucky I can sound out Cyrillic. One time it plopped me right down in front of the main train station of what was helpfully labeled, in 20 foot letters, СМОЛЕНСК.

Ok, 2nd try: 29,363. I'm going to stop playing this as I know this is the kind of game that will lead to my downfall:

Can you beat 29,363

wao, got within 100km for somewhere in the middle of australia, i'm retiring with that as my final attempt.

Albert got .005 km on one of those. Beware.

just got 19011

Argh, rural Finland looks EXACTLY like northern Minnesota.

I am mostly terrible at this but it's p. compelling! I did just have a good-ish game (read: lucky) until I thought a woody backroad in West Virginia might be in Belgium.

(also I would have been really lucky with place #2 as I was dumped down right outside a big sign saying Kapuskasing - 'cept I had no idea where that was. Turned round and there was a Tim Horton's, though, so that was a pretty good clue)

Do you lose points if you move around before guessing?

I tried cajunsunday's and got 28875 (click that link to challenge me).

I found myself on a rocky, red-earthed desert highway with SIMON PONCHO written in the dirt by the side of the road and was sure it was Mexico. it turned out to be Manitoba, damn. I'm pretty much hopeless at this game when there aren't any street signs or shops nearby.

You lost the challenge with 7847 points against 28875/

:/

did you cheat, grampsy? how did you get within 0.008 km of some spot in the middle of nowhere in Tasmania?

enough with the Brazil already, whats wrong with Daventry once in a while?

How are you playing this game? I just rotate, but don't move anywhere, then just take a guess. I'm not very good.

Come at me, bros

Totally cheated with another tab open, btw.

I decided to go the other way and challenge you without moving the camera at all.

You lost the challenge with 3702 points against 27907.

:/

anyone care to beat my unimpressive score (11811 points)? don't cheat like Grampsy!

8446 against you, unreg - hopeless.

I just rotate, but don't move anywhere, then just take a guess. I'm not very good.

That's what I've been doing too. I'm also not very good.

I've used the "zoom" function on some streetsigns, though, and once I accidentally moved while trying to zoom and I don't think it made any difference to my score. Then again I haven't stopped to work out the scoring, so...

I think you can move all over the place if you want. It's got that "return to original location" button that resets everything.

is googling street signs cheating?

(asking for a friend)

[url=http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=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%3D%3D0got someone, but i forgot who[/url]

xpost - Grampsy seems to be ok with googling street signs, but it's frowned upon by those of us who are not Frauds.

It is a guessing game. Seems to me that doing active research would take most of the guesswork out it.

cool building.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/2fe24c25d4859466beeb27d95f7e659c/tumblr_mndc3h85FT1qivgd4o1_1280.png

I'm guessing Iowa

Saskatchewan, Iowa.

what is that, a grain elevator? awesome

http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/grain_elevators.html

Obviously, no Canadian would reference "Liberty" on their grain storage building. It would be too boastful.

actually i managed to close the page before finding out where it was. I'LL NEVER FIND OUT.

there are fewer of them ever year--

In 1950 there were 3,035 primary elevators in Saskatchewan, with storage capacity of 283 million bushels and twenty-two licenced buyers. Twenty years later, in 1970, there were 2,750 elevators, with storage capacity of 225 million bushels. After that the number of elevators declined tremendously, so that by 2004 there are only 197 primary licenced elevators, with a storage capacity of 2.8 million tonnes (100 million bushels). Although there are only six major grain companies as buyers, there are now approximately fifteen terminals owned by farmers—wholly or in some joint venture with a major grain company.

http://saskgrainelevators.blogspot.ca/

guys, it said LIBERTY SASKATCHEWAN right on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty,_Saskatchewan

VANISHING SENTINELS II

This 371 page full color book contains:
Diagrams and descriptions on how a wooden grain elevator operated
Maps showing where the railroads and elevators were from 1950-2010
and which remain today;
The histories of the Western Saskatchewan grain elevators
(When they opened, which companies owned them, and their known fate);
Photos of the remaining wooden, steel and concrete elevators with some that
have been demolished from 2000-2010,
and their present location as of December 2010.

http://goo.gl/maps/CPqBu

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:+51.153,-105.437&hl=en&ll=51.145339,-105.442561&spn=0.003816,0.010568&sll=51.145345,-105.441953&sspn=0.007633,0.021136&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.145345,-105.441953&panoid=UHInaUjmMLgKPHgtkvLInA&cbp=12,112.81,,0,-10.32

http://www.custodela.com/p/smiles/emot-colbert.gif

thanks for that. I just booked a ticket to Liberty, Saskatchewan.

beautiful country out there, buddy. good fishing up at last mountain lake. craven country jamboree down the road the first week of july, randy travis, kenny chesney, tim mcgraw.

New high score on cajunsunday's/Grampsy's game!

Didn't cheat, just spent four hours playing. And there are two of us.

guys, it said LIBERTY SASKATCHEWAN right on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty,_Saskatchewan

― dylannn, Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:28 PM (3 hours ago)

You guys are all cheating. The real rules of this game are that you are not even allowed to look at the screen: a 3rd party must act out the scene via charades and then you throw a dart in the general direction of a map.

Reading the name of a grain elevator is just wayyyyy over the line for me, for example, consider blind people or those without a computer for example.

If there's one thing that 112 years on the planet have taught me, it's that anything worth doing is worth doing "by all means necessary".

26951 - Challenge me and feel free to cheat like a motherfucker.

Things I hate:

• Russian locations because I can't read Cyrillic.

• Locations where you can't move anywhere, just look around yourself.

• I swear, if I get dropped down on some stretch of a 1000 km dirt road in the middle of Australia again...

Man, I just got dropped underwater on the Great Barrier Reef! Best result ever! Turtles! They streetviewed the Great Barrier Reef, ffs!

http://maps.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/gallery/ocean/heron-island.html

haha, it's amazing what those Google cars can do! if you walk around a bit, you can climb out of the water and watch a couple of guys practicing their scuba diving in a resort swimming pool.