That’s fun. Although a picture indoors seems unfair. Somehow I knew one of the pictures had to be West Virginia and got within 40 miles. But the indoor one I got the exact opposite of the country because how are you supposed to tell? Literally all convention centers in the US have the same walls and awful garish carpeting.
Indoor photos can still provide good clues. I had no idea where the first picture was. I guessed somewhere in Vermont. But that second picture had me guess West Virginia because David McKinley was in the photo.
i think it's auto-generating a problem based on geotagged pictures. the indoor one isn't supposed to be a good clue, it's just a photo that happened to be in the dataset.
Could maybe pass the pictures through an object detector. Too many faces and it skips the picture. It may already be doing it to remove pictures with words as one "clue" containing a sign would spoil it. Though I'd rather it keep the picture but blur the sign in that case.
they could, but i kinda like the wildness of it. not knowing if you're going to get a completely useless clue (or one that totally gives away the answer) is part of the charm,.
First thing I one usually do on first visit of most pages is closing window to continue. So instead of reading the content I was searching for button to close it. Even though I knew it was not cookie pop-up!
Same. The image helps with a first and maybe last guess, and sometimes there's something highly identifying in the image, but triangulation would be enough if I could only accurately estimate distances. The scale on the map helps.
It would be cool if the radii were drawn at the end? It would be too easy if they were drawn before, I think.
Some of the photos were actually taken about a thousand feet from the zone where you were marked "correct". I clicked right on top of the dam for my fifth guess and it showed me being 0.2 miles off.
Got 0 mi on my first guess because I thought “That’s [state]” and then picked a random spot on the [other state] side of the state since it had that feel. I feel like I might as well quit at this point, lol.
Went purely on feel and got 40mi on my first guess, and I felt pretty good about that! Took a couple silly guesses because I didn't see that the picture changes after each guess - the [geological formation] in the later photos should have been a dead giveaway.
It seems that these two bridges just happen to have almost the exact same construction and type of trees around. However, you can see that in the first image from the parent article that there are four houses in the background, and if we look up the bridge attributed to the first image in the parent, it has those same four houses in the background: https://goo.gl/maps/WLnbN845pa4Hw1Yi7 Compare to the wikipedia photo used in the parent article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnsville_Bridge.jp...
The Stouts Mill Bridge does not have those same four houses in the background, it has a different set of buildings in a different arrangement near it: https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8
The original “where in the world?” location guessing game is GeoGuesser from 2013. There are competitions and some pro competitors can pinpoint locations within feet, though some rules allow the player to browse Google Maps in a separate window.
Rules? That sounds like a kind of Honor Rule since it seems impossible to enforce. I think it’s better to play with a time limit instead in order to make aids impractical. Of course in a duel or something you can just start the countdown after the first guess is made.
The cool thing with wheretaken and worldle is that I've learned a lot about countries and their borders. If I could pick on a map, I wonder if I'd retained how things look in certain parts of the world, but not what country they are in.
Don't know if everyone got the same pictures, but I believe it's like a wordle type game where you get 5 guesses to get the correct location, all the images are for the same location, and every day they release a new 5 image puzzle. You click and it tells you how far away from the location each click is which honestly allowed me to get within 30 miles by the end of every set cause I could just triangulate approximately where it wanted me to click.
They are, yeah. I didn’t realise to start with. I played a couple of older games and managed to get 0 miles on one too - though there was a hint in the second photo that got me within 12 miles and it was easier find it from there.
Yes, you can use a ruler and the scale to get closer with each guess, regardless of what the picture shows. I use the built in drawing app on Linux Mint.
Here is another attempt, with my triangulation circles written (don't judge me)
To help others understand, This image shows that there's only two possible locations left where all the circles intersect. Because the game gives exact distance to the target the correct answer must be on the circles.
Imagine drawing a circle with a radius of your error each time you guess. After the second guess, there will be only two intersecting points. A careful third guess should tell you which of the two it is.
I managed to get 0 mi, as well. I guessed the state based on the first image and was able to rapidly narrow it down from there. Kind of cool today's happened to be in the state I was born in, yet have no memories of.
Agreed. I grew up in Pittsburgh, but even after 10 years after moving away, I immediately recognized the first picture as "somewhere in West Virginia" as if instinctually.
I’ve never been to the US but somehow West Virginia was my first guess and I got it down to zero miles eventually. I don’t know why that state is so particularly recognizable
The bridge in the fitst photo is an old one lane bridge, probably was used by carriages. It looks like it mostly just connects a small neighborhood of houses, not a main road by any means. There are probably newer concrete bridges out of frame, but they're not as picturesque as old steel bridges.
There are plenty of old steel and wood bridges across the northeast that are exactly like that. They are closed to general traffic and only used by locals.
I got 0 miles because the first photo was exactly the kind of landscape I grew up with. It also helps that almost all of the Texas photos are sure to have a flag or the shape of Texas somewhere.
0 mi in 4 guesses. The funny part was I forgot to look at the photos after the first two and had to go back and look at the photos to see what I missed. The first photo has a bridge, so that informed the clicks a bit since I knew I needed a stream, so some help from the content.
Right click image, open in new tab, read URL of image which is helpfully descriptive, search wikipedia for that bridge. Wikipedia article shows location of the bridge on a map.
In reality, I didn't cheat until the 2nd picture, because a picture of some guys shaking a politician's hand isn't really that helpful. If the image didn't tell you what union was talking to what politician, I wouldn't have been able to look up the street address of the union hall. Even then, I still couldn't find the town on the map, so I had to eyeball it to get 0 mi.
I got very lucky. My first guess was only off by 5.5 miles. If I knew the exact location ahead of time I probably couldn't have gotten that close if I tried, considering the zoom level of the map when I guessed it. That got me close enough to get right on for the second guess.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 238 ms ] thread569, 1236, 512, 1734, 4.6 -- 4.6?? Pure luck.
If you can edit out the spoiler in your comment that might be polite.
They did for me. Firefox browser on Windows 11. Instructions were showing when I first visited and I had to close them to continue.
It would be cool if the radii were drawn at the end? It would be too easy if they were drawn before, I think.
Wiki commons may be a great place to find images, but they do too good of a job naming things.
I find it funny that my best guess was what appeared to me to be a Ohio conference room.
Edited out spoilers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnsville_Bridge
It seems that these two bridges just happen to have almost the exact same construction and type of trees around. However, you can see that in the first image from the parent article that there are four houses in the background, and if we look up the bridge attributed to the first image in the parent, it has those same four houses in the background: https://goo.gl/maps/WLnbN845pa4Hw1Yi7 Compare to the wikipedia photo used in the parent article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnsville_Bridge.jp...
The Stouts Mill Bridge does not have those same four houses in the background, it has a different set of buildings in a different arrangement near it: https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoGuessr
Most /s but also maybe not.
[1] https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/
Another awesome game for anyone who is into geography and, in this case econ: https://oec.world/en/tradle/
> Always has been
After the first 2 I stopped attempting cities and figured the picture didn't matter, it was a game of triangulation.
Nice game, I like it, even though I've never set foot in the US.
[1] Spoilers! - https://i.imgur.com/azCWc3i.png
I managed to get 60 mi away.
I think 0 mi away is very impressive. Especially since you had already used some of your attempts without initially aiming for triangulation!
Kudos to you :)
Here is another attempt, with my triangulation circles written (don't judge me)
Attempt: https://i.imgur.com/Hz3c37c.png
Also, as an American, the fact that I recognized the first picture to within 50 miles makes me sad. Our bridges should not look like that, even there.
Spoiler: https://i.imgur.com/HK6sNsf.png
In reality, I didn't cheat until the 2nd picture, because a picture of some guys shaking a politician's hand isn't really that helpful. If the image didn't tell you what union was talking to what politician, I wouldn't have been able to look up the street address of the union hall. Even then, I still couldn't find the town on the map, so I had to eyeball it to get 0 mi.
Certain parts of America just have a "look".
A rusty, sad, religious, whitebread, Under Armour Tucked Into My Jeans look.
Edit: wait, they're all the same place? I was confused on that point. I thought each was a different state.
got 64 (i think it's the rusty bridges...)