GeoGuessr / Map-Race

[Enderman]

Sorry guys for having the thread go crazy...It was the first time that I tried it so obviously I did it wrong. Thanks Inks for correcting it.

[Oakvale]

I think I'm in Australia guys.

[Aliens]

This has been my favorite new game for the past couple weeks.  I wander around and look for signs to see where I'm at, but I never research it online.  It's also useful to know which countries drive on the right side of the road.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

17486 points

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

http://url.geoguessr.com/1muy

The first one was a cool little beach town with either Japanese or Korean (I get those confused) that reminded me of Ponyo - so I placed in right in between south Korean and Japan (it was Japan near Tottori).  The second at first looked like somewhere I had been on the Eastern Shore, but then I saw that the ocean was on the West and the buildings had more of a Western feel to them, and I correctly guessed Northern CA.  The third looked like some flat, blighted rural ghost town, I saw some signs in English and figured it was in the South or Midwest - no, it was Australia in the South of New South Wales.  For the fourth I realized pretty soon I was in Russia, and happened on a highway sign that I googled through I had some trouble getting the transliteration right. The fifth put me right by a highway sign with Oaxaca and Acapulco, so that was easy enough.

score: 15444

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Here's a similar game (one where you can't use Google, cheaters. )

I got 29 seconds (NA/easy) after finding an American football field with "SEMINOLES" written on it.
NA/medium: 2m45, picked Newark after finding a giant friggin airport.
NA/hard: 3m22, landed relatively near the University of Virginia
World/easy: 11 seconds, ie directly after I noticed the bottom said "© Commonwealth of Virginia" or something along those lines
World/medium: 53 seconds for Osaka
World/hard: 1m07 for London

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Got about 26000 points the last time I played this. O/c I used teh googles.

[Bacon King]

My high score is 18930, no cheating

19752 points, no cheating! I got very lucky here. On the fifth one I was placed somewhere in the Outback, realized there were no signs or anything anywhere near me, so I just clicked somewhere in Australia and ended up less than 100km off.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

With google this time:

32394 points

My worst result, incidentally (in a previous game) was when I got a skate park, with no way to move and no signage of any sort. Guessed Pennsylvania, it was Ukraine.

[Smid]

My best was when I landed slap-bang outside the Port Pirie post office in South Australia. My luckiest was this bland country road crossing a wooden bridge. A few rolling hills. Went up the road a hundred metres or so to the nearest driveway and noticed a van. Then noticed the sliding door was on the left side and realised I was probably in Australia. The van numberplate was yellow, so I assumed New South Wales. Guessed up in the North-East, near Armadale, and ended up being off by about 7km.

Edit: Found it by searching through Google Maps, the van is at about 841 Thunderbolts Way, Rocky River, NSW. The original game dropped me on the bridge down the road.

[dead0man]

Australia seems to be over represented in the game....of course just when you think you're there, bam, Botswana.  I've seen some cool sh**t though.  One time I was staring at a statue of Lenin.  A logging road in Romania.  others...

[Smid]

Just got dropped in the "Mayan Ruins of Tullum" - that was pretty cool!

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I've landed in downtown Kiev and Lisbon. On the other hand, I've also plopped down in countless random Canadian highways and grainy Australian/South African deserts.