22 April 2023

A new online geography game


Where in the USA is this? offers you photographs and invites you to identify the location by placing pins on a map, which basically makes it a clone of Geoguesser.  The photos chosen seem to be devoid of useful clues, but I had an interesting experience yesterday.  First two guesses (a house, then a store) were off by almost a thousand miles, in the wrong part of the country.  Then the third guess, based on the photo above was exactly on the spot.  Many readers will recognize those iconic cliffs.

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  1. A couple other identify-the-place sites are https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/ and https://wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr/, should anyone want to check them out.
    Sandra

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  2. One can use the responses to your successive guesses — the distances between your guesses and the location — to home in, even if you have no familiarity with the location.

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  3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippi_River_Lock_and_Dam_No._6_-_Trempealeau,_Wisconsin_(36576607865).jpg

    Google image search makes it too easy to cheat .-)

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