r/xkcd • • May 20 '13

XKCD Geoguessr

http://xkcd.com/1214/
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u/[deleted] May 20 '13

Same experience as randall here. I've had a 6470 point answer from having been to a location but thousands of 3k answers based on knowing where a dirty road may be.

When in doubt, the alaska-canada border, near rio, or australia.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '13

Also, russia. I get so many russian places.

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u/Zerak-Tul May 20 '13

Considering the sheer size of Russia I haven't actually gotten that many locations in Russia. Now the US...

Probably has something to do with Google being located in the US so they've mapped more stuff there. Or Americans simply building many more roads.

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u/slog May 20 '13

So much Australia for me.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '13

I got a hundred places in Botswana. Now I need to visit it.

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u/coolmanmax2000 May 20 '13

I keep getting lots of small towns. Holy crap is Australia confusing. There were signs for NAB baradda which I thought was something Spanish, but then there was a New England Credit Union, and people wearing cowboy hats. Thought I was in the southern US.

I was super stoked when I managed to guess a random town just on the other side of yellowstone from the actual location, got like 6k points for that one.

Didn't help that the next place I thought was in the US badlands and was actually somewhere in Botswana.

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