Test your geographic knowledge

[armaghniac]

http://geoguessr.com/

see a picture on Streeview and guess where it is!

I got 10,123 on the first 5 attempts. Easy enough to identify Australia or Russia, not so easy to say where exactly!

[DickyRock]

Some places just look the same - 10100

[Smokin Joe]

It's pretty addictive.

There are two ways to play.

1 - move round a little, don't use google and see what score you can get
2 - use google and google maps to try to get as close as possible.

Once you start using method 2 it's hard to change

[armaghniac]

Some places just look the same - 10100

In big places you could be a vast distance out. I clicked on British Colombia, a reasonable guess, but it was really Alaska 1000km away!

Once you start using method 2 it's hard to change

It depends, some of the god forsaken roads in forests I had could anywhere, hard to zoom in on them.

Interesting all the same. 

[Oraisteach]

11514  Picked Arizona, but it was Alaska--Ouch!  Got some lucky clues--Sugarloaf - happened to know Sugarloaf is in Maine.  Got the word "ristorante", so opted for Italy, and had some Cyrillic letters, so went for Russia.

[Hardy]

14724. The last one showed a crossroads with two towns named - each 13 km in opposite directions. So I googled and found them in Sweden and was able to get within .225 km - 6700-odd points. 

[ONeill]

Any fcuker that uses Google is dead inside. This is very important.

Be good to do one in Ireland. Imagine seeing Hardstation in the shellsuit with the sausage bap.

[qubdub]

14708... got a handy one got me a few pts, landed at some house, oldest wooden house in Florida, St Augsustine. 3km away haha

[armaghniac]

21281 Got a crossroads in Australia with road sign clearly visible, within .189 km 6463 points! I then got a French town with a sign anf got within 3km.

Any fcuker that uses Google is dead inside. This is very important.

Using Google is cheating, I use Bing.

[Smokin Joe]

The missus got somewhere outside Banbridge last night, she thought it was somewhere around Newtownhamilton.

Haven't seen any others in Ireland.

I got a class one in Dawson City, Yukon.  Main street looked like something from the Wild West (all wooden structures but there was a casino and everything was called "Gold Rush......."

[armaghniac]

Some parts of the central US are remarkably hick looking, you'd think they were in Mexico or south America.

[Eamonnca1]

Great find!

America has yellow lines in the middle of the road and white lines at the edge, in other countries it's the opposite.  Sometimes you'll get lucky and see a road sign.  You can see what side of the road the cars are on too, which is a good clue.  Strange alphabets appear on signs...

Great little exercise.  My old high school geography teacher would love this.

[Declan]

You got 17957 points in total - Only one bad guess in Germany when it was alaska - got lucky with two one showed a romanian flag and one was obviously alaska. Great craic

[qubdub]

Got a handy wee one, Delamont Country Park outside Dpk.

Keep getting Alaska, Austrailia and Scandinavia; and the first one is almost always in the absolute middle of nowhere!

I will say this much, I'm amazed at how close some of my genuine guesses have been.  Great wee game.

[guy crouchback]

28745 although i did use google a bit without google  13555 was my best