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I am becoming very familiar with the terrain and backroads of Australia.
Me too, but they still look like Montana to me! I've learned to check what side of the road cars are driving on -- if they are driving on the left, it narrows the field.
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I'm not sure I could have done worse if I randomly guessed. lol It kept dropping me in the middle of nowhere! http://url.geoguessr.com/3m2d
I love how Anne just drops a bomb in here and skitters away. She must be monitoring this thread giggling to herself. Addictive is right.
Call me Ray (not Ishmael)
This might be helpful: Where is Google Street View?
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Ha HAA!!
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
Well, that explains the absence of India, most of South America other than Brasil, Brasil, Brasil. China's absence made sense - not the most Google-friendly place. But India? Argentina? Wonder when they're getting there.
And, Obiebyke, I've been back - couldn't miss coming back to share that 25k score.
So you have, Anne! That was an impressive one, Googling and all. I stand corrected and in awe. Carry on.
New Delhi is on there, so the rest of the big cities should have this soon. And having that map may help me a bit as I did randomly choose Egypt and Morocco a couple of times.
Come on. Somebody's got to beat my 27K. Even with Google, it's not an easy score. Plus, Google only helps so much. How do you google Russian stuff?
That map is a bigger help than google. I can now stop guessing parts of South American and Africa.
Come on. Somebody's got to beat my 27K. Even with Google, it's not an easy score.
http://url.geoguessr.com/3lE0
31798 points in total.
Plus, Google only helps so much. How do you google Russian stuff?
If you were serious about your score you would brush up on your knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet.
The process is the goal.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
I got ~25k without google last night by just flat out getting lucky.
My first one, I was directly across the water from the Sydney Opera House. My 3rd one, I saw French on the signs and wandered around until I found a sign pointing me to Quebec (I'm glad I thought to consider Canada before just randomly plunking the marker down in the middle of France). Then the 5th one stuck me smack on I-75, and I went a mile down the road and found the sign for the next exit, so I just scanned the length of the road until I found that exit in Michigan. Those three alone had me near 20000, and I got the others reasonably close.
Then for my next game I got stuck on a bunch of blurry dirt roads
My wildly inconsistent PRs:
5k: 24:36 (10/20/12)
10k: 52:01 (4/28/12)
HM: 1:50:09 (10/27/12)
Marathon: 4:19:11 (10/2/2011)
This is fun! Not my best score, but pretty happy with being able to get fairly close on some tough ones without googling. Should have trusted my instincts on the last one, but I saw a Canadian flag and a blue flag with it, and I knew Quebec had a blue flag. But I had been thinking Alaska before I saw the Canadian flag.
Here's my game.
not bad for mile 25
Has it ever put you on a walking path? It put me in a garden surrounding some palace in Denmark. Very pretty. No clue. There was a tiny guard station with a curlicue on the roof.
My game (not the one with Denmark). Some badly misplaced mountain roads hurt me.
p.s. Does time count, i.e. if you're speedy, do you score higher?
I don't know what's worse. Getting dumped in a look-a-like city in Russia or on a long dirt road in the outback...
Upped my best by a couple points to 27994