Found on the internet

This is a thread for anything interesting or neat found on the Internet. Kind of a randomness thread, but for Internet stuff.

A site where you're presented with random Google street views to explore before guessing where they are in the world. You get points. Try to beat my 8822. Shouldn't be hard since I guessed a point in the UK which was actually Australia. LOL. My closest was 242 km off in Sweden. I also was within 1000 km in Mexico and in the area of South Korea.

http://www.geoguessr.com/

I beat myself with 9155. AGAIN misidentifying an island off the south coast of Australia as the UK. Australia can f-off. Except Zebonka.

:)

Amateur. :)

Got 11,598 on my first go.

This is right up my alley, cheers. Can see me wasting hours on this, as I have done on [url=http://geosense.net/]http://geosense.net/[/url] many a time.

10911 on my first try (http://goo.gl/0Qic8). But one of the five was a little too easy. When the first thing I see is a truck which advertises it's from Perth, I'm not thinking of Botswana...

Credit where credit is due: thank you GratefulFan, you've actually shown me something we both like.

I had a dismal go at it this morning before work with another Australia fail. I've concluded I'm pretty much going to have to land at a spot with a kangaroo up a eucalyptus tree with a pouch full of koalas wearing Men at Work t-shirts to get Australia.

I had a deflating far-but-yet-so-close moment in the same game by guessing a rocky coastal spot in Labrador that was actually a rocky coastal spot in Norway. Knew it looked like an Atlantic inlet, knew it looked like a northern country, knew nothing apparently about what side of the ocean it was on.

That's an impressive little knot in Europe bohardy. I thought I was bloody brilliant when I picked the Ukraine for a spot in Hungary. It was Eastern Europe, right? Ha ha.

This is another one I like. It's called 'The Political Compass Test' and it places you on an economic and social grid that goes beyond the left-right political spectrum. Some historical and current leaders are represented once you get your results page: My results follow. It's interesting because I have a screen cap from a go at it about 18 months ago and my numbers were slightly different. I was a -1.50 on the Economic Left/Right then and a -4.05 on the Social Libertarian/Authoritarian, so either I've drifted slightly down and to the left since then or I was in a particularly generous mood this morning. Link is at http://www.politicalcompass.org/test for anybody interested in taking the test. You answer a series of questions that take 5 or 10 minutes depending on how hard you have to think about them.

Right. I've no idea how I managed such a score on my first go. Really.

I had an obvious Great Barrier Reef scene to start me off. I have no memory of how I got the European ones, but I guess I got lucky, and even if you get the wrong country in that continent, you're never more than a few 100km off (if you're in the right ballpark). But I got Sweden and Canada mixed up and still breached 11,000?! I don't understand it.

That was genuinely my first go, and all I did on each scene was spin around a little, never driving anywhere.

Since then I've had about 10 attempts, cheated the hell out of it by driving around a little trying to find signs or anything to give me a clue. A few times I've managed to track down the exact location, but still I couldn't beat my original score.

Finally, on about my dozenth go, I beat my score. But only just and, again, only by getting lucky in Australia and finding a nearby directional sign that allowed me to find the exact junction depicted. Annoyingly, I got rid of the screen showing my actual performance on that go, so I only have the high score recorded for posterity.

I guess an inherent drawback in this game is that there is nothing to stop you driving until you reach an identifiable location, so it's hard to objectively measure performance. There certainly doesn't seem to be any penalty for taking a long time to make your guess, as perhaps there should be (and there is in http://www.geosense.net)

Anyway, 12,393 to beat.

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.38&soc=-3.49

I find it interesting that the former pope is mostly authoritarian and slightly leftist. Also, Obama and Romney are so close together!

I'm almost identical to you on the political spectrum GF.

(I would embed the image, but I've no idea how to).

Also, my first go on GeoGuessr was 5776. Go me.

12,823 to beat.

Only 'cheated' on one and got particularly lucky as one of the locations was only about 50 miles from me.

Whoops

http://www.retronaut.com/

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[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]

This is a thread for anything interesting or neat found on the Internet. Kind of a randomness thread, but for Internet stuff.

A site where you're presented with random Google street views to explore before guessing where they are in the world. You get points. Try to beat my 8822. Shouldn't be hard since I guessed a point in the UK which was actually Australia. LOL. My closest was 242 km off in Sweden. I also was within 1000 km in Mexico and in the area of South Korea.[/QUOTE]


I played this for a few dozen times, and started getting the same sites again... How random can it be? :p

My closet guess for a large Brazilian city was a mere 1.6 kilometres off (6,000 points), while Veracruz taxi got me 8 kilometres from the target (5,000 points).

Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.21

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