# Time waster... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 5, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691 "2014-05-05T04:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/1 "2014-05-05T04:12:17Z")
But it’s fun! Explore the world: > **[GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!](https://www.geoguessr.com/)** > > GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/2 "2014-05-05T08:02:18Z")
8218 points Could have been better except that I placed the first in Canada and it was really Australia. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/3 "2014-05-05T08:33:01Z")
I suck at that game ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/4 "2014-05-05T09:29:03Z")
I did pretty well the first time, even though I didn’t realise you can move tge streetview around. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/5 "2014-05-05T12:40:54Z")
Well, that was a bit weird. On the last one, saw street signs in Spanish/Portuguese (yeah, like I can tell the difference) and a car driving on the left hand side of the road. So I pulled up my handy Wikipedia list of left-driving countries and picked Suriname. Turns out it was Mexico. How does that work?? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/6 "2014-05-10T02:31:56Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > But it’s fun! Explore the world: > > [http://geoguessr.com/](http://geoguessr.com/) I played that game and it showed me some card driving down a two lane highway. I thought to myself, “That sure looks like Australia!” But it couldn’t be cuz all the cars were driving on the right hand side. But it \*\*was \*\*Australia. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![JacksMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@JacksMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacksMom)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/7 "2014-05-10T04:57:01Z")
1. Twice I was just over the state line from the photo, but it helps that I’m familiar with the area. I guessed Arkansas for the first one, and Arkansas WAS the 2nd one. For the ones outside the US, I was at least on the same continent. Fun time waster! ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/8 "2014-05-10T12:31:28Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I played that game and it showed me some card driving down a two lane highway. > > I thought to myself, “That sure looks like Australia!” > > But it couldn’t be cuz all the cars were driving on the right hand side. Could be a four lane highway… with a large median strip, eg with such thick bush, that you couldn’t see the other two lanes. Plenty of that around. M1 NSW (Sydney to Newcastle ) has plenty of bush at the middle. Some it has a rock (original bedrock… They cut the rock away where the road was going. ) in the middle. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/9 "2014-05-10T12:34:29Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Well, that was a bit weird. > > On the last one, saw street signs in Spanish/Portuguese (yeah, like I can tell the difference) and a car driving on the left hand side of the road. So I pulled up my handy Wikipedia list of left-driving countries and picked Suriname. > > Turns out it was Mexico. How does that work?? Were they overtaking the streetview car ? Or… playing up for the camera… a joke “hah, we have crazy drivers here, amigo !” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/10 "2014-05-10T13:56:08Z")
Fun Game. I tried it 3 times and my high was ~11,000. Those Australian ones kill me, I keep guessing South Africa, but otherwise I am pretty accurate. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/11 "2014-05-10T15:58:57Z")
Stupid Russia. Thought I was doing good when I had a gut feeling the architecture was Russian. I was right but still missed by a million miles. ETA: Although woohoo, my “umm well that has to be northern Mexico somewhere” guess was only off by 12 KM 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/12 "2014-05-10T16:16:13Z")
Pretty amazing how accurate you can be with not much more than vegetation, dirt, and some pavement! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-waster/687691/13 "2014-05-10T16:38:16Z")
1. I got all the continents correct, just missed on the specific locations. But I bet I can’t repeat that score. ETA: 10008. I guess I can!