Picked up some Russian and Spanish from the signs. Well, the graphics really lag and I guess you just have to have time to scroll through for enough clues.
I look for street names, road signs, and telephone numbers. Currency signs in shop windows also help.
I did pretty well except for the one I got really far off. Saw a canadian flag and a sign for a scotia bay, so I figured it was nova scotia. Turned out it was in BC. Other than that I did pretty well. The japan one I saw a sign for highway 50 and saw it was near the coast so I used that. The hong kong one I saw a sign for stanley hong kong karate club and that was a dead giveaway. Italy I saw forno so I figured it was italy and mountains so northern italy. the first one I've been to that area of central europe before so I kind of eyeballed it Overall did pretty well for my first go 19195
100 miles of this Spoiler How am I supposed to know where this is???? Edit: So i took the advice above and hit up Montana. I missed it by 500km it was Wyoming!
Yeah, but Australia is VAST and Montana is a small square. Also, just click the distance travel and you'll go by .25 of a mile at each click. Look for "next town [x] miles" markers, or billboards with advertisements. Did I get Jurassic Park here?!?!?! http://postimg.org/image/evnfijhof/
Sometimes I check out the foreign hotties :grin: Spoiler OK... so the picture of the hottie above is from a game I was on. So I traveled down the road from where the lady was standing... and found this establishment: http://bukkaljacsarda.blogspot.com/ The picture matched my spelling of the sign on the front, which is advertising a concert: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rX3xAWwQy3g/TMQln_HZnFI/AAAAAAAAAAc/_QxNY-LU5eA/S1600-R/cégt2.jpg The original DROP place on the guessing map was this: https://www.google.com/maps/preview...665!3d37.6!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!17b1&fid=5 (Református templom Kossuth utca 3644 Tardona Hungary) It's the 5th place (E) on this game: http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3Rh...uZ2UiOmZhbHNlLCJjaGFsbGVuZ2VTY29yZSI6bnVsbH0= "Your guess was 0.002 km from the correct location and gave 6479 points." You can "Challenge" before you see the points above. http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3Rh...2OTM1Nzk3NjAwMywyMC41MzM5ODM3MDc0Mjc5OF1dfQ== Man, this is FASCINATING to me.
19,834. Got dumped in backwoods Vermont and didn't have patience to make it to a major road. I knew it was is US, in the east, but guessed too far south. Other 4 were right on.
New challenge: Don't move from where you are dropped. Only turn in place. When you guess on the map, no zooming in, just drop it on the big map. Here's my score to start off: 10,691
Just got 32386 points with lots and lots of help. Here's the challenge link if you want to try to beat it.