From Street View to Map - A Game.

[Grey Fox]

http://geoguessr.com/

From a street view picture you need to guess where you are in the world.

11357 over my first 5 rounds.

Hint : You can move in Street view making it easier when you are in the middle of a forest.

[Syt]

9465 on first go. It sure likes Australia.

[Brazen]

9465 on first go. It sure likes Australia.

Really? Mine were all US. I thought it meant "Where in the world?" as in "World Series".

[Grey Fox]

Mine RNG loves Africa.

[Syt]

I love it when it dumps you in the middle of a non-descript nordic forest.

[Zanza]

Most I got so far was 11900, but I also had a game with just 4000 points. Some are impossibly hard. Deserts, forests, end less cornfields etc.

[Syt]

I noticed that the game allows you to move around using the streetview controls. That makes things a bit easier (at least if you're in a settlement).

[Zanza]

GF wrote that in his initial post.

I got the Golden Gate Bridge this time. If you pinpoint a location perfectly, you still only get 3200 points...

[merithyn]

end less cornfields etc.

Probably Nebraska

[Syt]

Had a good one. A guy standing alone, in the snow, in front of a large, abandoned Soviet style building. All other buildings in town also look decrepit.

My guess: Prypyat. Correct!

[PRC]

11142 on my first try.  Three of the guesses in Australia, two in USA.  One of the Australian guesses had a clearly visible flag in it so that made it a little easier.  Also got lucky on one where I guessed Texas and wasn't that far off.  Basically it was a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, could have been Africa but I figured the yellow lines on the road wouldn't be there in Africa so I guessed Texas and got it right.

[Josephus]

That's fun. Thanks. Now I'll never get any work done. Oh, whatever, I'm losing my job soon anyways.
I had one in Munich that actually had a German version of "You are entering Munich" sign, so that was kinda easy.

[Syt]

It's sometimes a bit like Twilight Zone when you explore an area to get your bearings - beautiful sunshine and a few buildings off the street. Move a couple hundred yards - winter, and the buildings are gone. Move another couple yards - summer again, and the buildings are back. It's like jumping through time holes.

[DGuller]

Got 11388 on my first try.  I got lucky by getting two places where it looked like a shithole, but there were white people there.  Eastern Europe is not that big, so I got plenty of points on those.

[Grey Fox]

I got one which was some indoor fence yard with a asian looking dude. Trees looked Korean. Picked a spot in South Korean, within ~33km!