Thanks for playing my Map :) I really appreciate it! For me personally the new version of the script is also a bit laggy sometimes. Could be bcause it's mapbox satellite and not Bing anymore. The radius of the image varies in the versions. It should be 15 km so you should have easily seen the sea in Neath and Newcastle, which you can see in the older version of the script. Btw: you may now also view the location in 3D by right clicking and dragging the map, which is a really cool new feature in the v6.
I love how he apologizes for lagging and then proceeds to fix it by opening and closing the recording window and reminding the computer how much it cost
Lag could be caused by Hardware Acceleration in your browser settings, likely not your computer's hardware. Test if performance is better with hardware acceleration on or off. Common issue with Geoguessr among my friends. Note: you will need to restart your browser EACH TIME to test performance when enabling or disabling hardware acceleration.
I'm a borough councillor in Basingstoke, I actually represent the ward where the coordinates were, so I recognised this straight away. Still very impressed you guessed it so quickly, not being from the south!
fairly sure the shiny thing in the first round is an plane, usually they move faster than the satellite captures an image and it leaves an interesting holographic mark vaguely plane-shaped. on google maps, it's often rainbow coloured, but bing might use a slightly different image capture method that gives it such a cool look
That is an aerial photo, resolution is far far higher than the top of the line 10 metre per pixel commercial satellite imagery out there. Still it probably is something in the air though when a moving camera is artificially fixating on a point in the background ie the ground in this case it can make objects in between appear to be moving very fast. This is of course what a camera trying to take a stable non blurry image of the ground will be doing to correct for the motion of the aircraft, focus on a point, take the exposure, focus on next point, repeat; all using a motorised gimbal camera mount to get the shots.
Long time fan but worth commenting just to say I particularly enjoyed this video, all the facts and bits of info ('Here's where they're demolishing everything for HS2' for example) really made it a quality watch. I hope the lag gets sorted and you do more of these! Speedruns would be fun but it's your insight, hunches and thinking out loud that absolutely make these videos.
10:05 knowing about trains helps because the blue and red stagecoach livery and the 12 Carriges indicates that this is in the South West. They are South West Trains / South Western Railway class 450s (depending on when this photo was taken)
I can’t believe Neath came up first. I live about 10 miles away and was joking to myself that the only town I would recognise from satellite view would be Neath. Then when it came up and he said Neath I was doubting him lol
Lag is due to the website not the PC, notice when you zoom in on the map(the one you place the marker down) its quite smooth however the other is not. Best ways to fix this either make sure no other applications are running, no extra tabs on the browser, or try new browsers like Opera GX or something else.
If he has his browser using integrated graphic on his cpu and not gpu that could be a reason/contributor at least. I only say that because it is weird a desktop is working so hard to look at sat maps.
Really enjoyed this video, as a West Mids resident myself, I thought it would be Meadowhall on that last one aswell, never would have guessed it would be Merry Hill 😂😂
My first thought was somewhere around Dudley as it looked like the M5. First one I thought - that's the M1 so the location must be Rotherham :) I can't believe he took so long on the Newcastle location - how many rivers have all those bridges?
Tom! My late grandmother always watched Coronation street. Thanks for that call back to the show - I haven't heard the theme song since I last watched it with her. Thanks for the nice memory and the great videos as always. :)
I just played the germany version of this mode, and the first city that came up was my literal hometown, even the marker was pretty close to the part of the city where I grew up in. That was quite the coincidence.
A small tip for these UK satellite videos; if you can, zoom into railway lines and see if they are electrified or not. Chances are if they have overhead wires or third rail it will make a difference to the guess
I watched this video in hopes of seeing my home town and I was still shocked when it displayed Newcastle! Its always fun seeing your home city on geoguesser
I live near Basingstoke and recognised it almost immediately, but I have no idea how Tom plucked this information out of the air on the first guess!!! What a legend he is...
Stourbridge represent! I mean, it was a terribly depressing place that I moved away from as soon as I could nearly 20 years ago but it was nice to see a pin being dropped right next to where I learned to swim.
a new mission is coming!! Amazing, Tom. I can't relate or understand (until I see it here) what the challenge is (I guess private property issues...?) but Black country - no roads sounds really good!
"And some of you might be asking how I knew it was Basingstoke..." I'm just waiting for Tom to say, "Look, I'm just really fucking good, ok? And that's that. I didn't get here because I worked hard, I have a gift from God!" Lol
I was listening but not watching (not that it would have helped much cos I'm shit at maps) but as soon as you mentioned a huge shopping centre my ears pricked up 😂 hi from Dudley!
It is difficult to diagnose why you computer might be stuttering without any information other than a symptom, but as others have said try turning on/off hardware acceleration. Another thing that comes to mind is that your pc could be thermal throttling (the computer slowing down processing speeds to save itself from overheating) because of bad airflow that could be caused by dust buildup. I will say the second option is most likely not the case, as you said you purchased the computer recently, and the odds of enough dust building up that quickly to thermal throttle a PC is astronomically small. Either way, the video was enjoyable nonetheless. Keep it up!
I was just so unbelievably bad at this map 🙃 Rounds 1, 2 and 5 were a write-off. I managed to get Round 4 after about half-an-hour of searching through various British towns. It even took me a few minutes to recognise Round 3 and it's my home city; the pin was about 100 yards away from where I play 5-a-side 🤣
@@TubaBluba789 Got Brum, you can't not get it if you're a Brummie or a Yam Yam, Spaghetti Junction is just too obvious. Can't believe I didn't get Stourbridge though, kicking myself for that one.
Mate you are absolutely damn right about this script being laggy, but it has nothing to do with neither your hardware, nor broadband connection. I've got my 48 seconds result on Capitals of the World map, which I believe, still stands as a record. I was lucky enough to hit it literally hours before the script updated and it works terribly slow from there on. Maybe it's not the script to blame here, but rather Bing updates, I don't know for certain. Someone with a better knowledge and understanding of the situation might be able to tell what's going wrong here. For me though, this is a win situation, cause it's not longer possible to beat my result, unless there is a fix to these lags.
The fact I clicked on this just to see if my town was on there, it was, and I firmly said when it showed up, "Well this isn't it" and then it was makes me ashamed on so many levels
This was the first time I tried the satellite mode for geoguessr and it was surprisingly fun. I managed to guess / deduce the first four but the last one completely stumped me. There is not much to go on when you can't read any signs...
Cheers from Texas! Great video as always Tom, and I noticed you’ve mentioned your bandmates and wanted a refresher on what the name of your band was as I checked it out over a year ago and I’ve forgotten the name, but the music was very good!
My initial thought was Stourbridge for that last one, then when you picked out the Merry Hill Centre it threw me off and I thought Cradley Heath. It was all the old railways and canals that tipped me off.
(note, if using a graphics card made by AMD, this will not apply) My best guess for the computer lag would be it trying to run off the wrong graphics card. While I don't know what your setup is and this might be completely wrong, it could be that your computer is using the integrated graphics instead of the actual fancy expensive graphics card. The way to solve this would be to go to your home screen, right click on your homescreen, at the bottom of the list that pops up click on "show more options", then click on "Nvidia control panel" when the panel opens there should be a thing labelled "manage 3D settings" and once you click on that it should display a bunch of settings, but the important one is at the top, where it should say "Preferred graphics processor:" then make sure it is set to "high performance NVIDIA processor"
I've just watched this while sitting about 100yds from the final marker and my initial thought was Sheffield as well. Recognised the shape of the ring road though. Lovely coincidence!
Shift+Escape opens task manager for the browser, check if something is using a lot of resources. Ctrl+Shift+Escape opens Windows task manager, check if something is using a lot of resources. A lot of the times you just need to restart the browser or computer to clear out some old junk from the memory.
![Geoguessr from above? Now you're talking.. [Capital Cities #1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/B8gQNCZuR-o/mqdefault.jpg)
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"I really have looked at Britain a LOT on Google Earth" is an early candidate for understatement of the century.
Thanks for playing my Map :) I really appreciate it! For me personally the new version of the script is also a bit laggy sometimes. Could be bcause it's mapbox satellite and not Bing anymore. The radius of the image varies in the versions. It should be 15 km so you should have easily seen the sea in Neath and Newcastle, which you can see in the older version of the script. Btw: you may now also view the location in 3D by right clicking and dragging the map, which is a really cool new feature in the v6.
Love that you picked stour, I recognised instantly
@@jaydenakehurst have you installed the script?
th-cam.com/video/40p4FCQd4Vg/w-d-xo.html
@@rigatuni994 how?
@@kippdanielson6413 you have too install the extension Tampermonkey and then follow the instructions in the map description
I love how he apologizes for lagging and then proceeds to fix it by opening and closing the recording window and reminding the computer how much it cost
I'm from Neath and knew the first one straight away, but hearing you say 'Is that the River Neath' blew me away. You're cracked
took me all of 2 second to recognise it haha 🤣
Me too, was half expecting him to start giving the history of Stockhams bakery or the topless barmaids in the Highlander.
@@doctor_gibbo1392 I wouldn’t put it past him 😂
I was lucky to just zoom straight in on it when I tried
@@doctor_gibbo1392 You got me interested in visiting Neath with that last part...
Lag could be caused by Hardware Acceleration in your browser settings, likely not your computer's hardware. Test if performance is better with hardware acceleration on or off. Common issue with Geoguessr among my friends.
Note: you will need to restart your browser EACH TIME to test performance when enabling or disabling hardware acceleration.
+1
Thanks, this worked for me
+1 This
I've found firefox works much much better than chrome in this game
It's also worth trying a few different browsers, sometimes certain sites have issues with one of them
I'm a borough councillor in Basingstoke, I actually represent the ward where the coordinates were, so I recognised this straight away. Still very impressed you guessed it so quickly, not being from the south!
i instantly recognised it too 😂
I live in Andover, and jokingly said "could be Basingstoke" then was like '...hang on.."
England is a wild place with wild names and wild titles, god bless.
You can probably thank Douglas Adams for a lot more people knowing Basingstoke than really should :)
im from tunbridge wells and i knew it straight away lmao
fairly sure the shiny thing in the first round is an plane, usually they move faster than the satellite captures an image and it leaves an interesting holographic mark vaguely plane-shaped. on google maps, it's often rainbow coloured, but bing might use a slightly different image capture method that gives it such a cool look
tonight… i see an plane, Richard gets a glitched round in Argentina, and James says “are we filming?”
@@emmittwhite1290 Tonoit, on bo''o'm geeeeaaar maates.
A plane was the first thing I thought of. A pink and white plane. Wizz Air perhaps?
That is an aerial photo, resolution is far far higher than the top of the line 10 metre per pixel commercial satellite imagery out there. Still it probably is something in the air though when a moving camera is artificially fixating on a point in the background ie the ground in this case it can make objects in between appear to be moving very fast. This is of course what a camera trying to take a stable non blurry image of the ground will be doing to correct for the motion of the aircraft, focus on a point, take the exposure, focus on next point, repeat; all using a motorised gimbal camera mount to get the shots.
This is false this guy works for the US government in area 51. He is just trying to cover up the existence of aliens!
Long time fan but worth commenting just to say I particularly enjoyed this video, all the facts and bits of info ('Here's where they're demolishing everything for HS2' for example) really made it a quality watch. I hope the lag gets sorted and you do more of these! Speedruns would be fun but it's your insight, hunches and thinking out loud that absolutely make these videos.
Well said.
Bring back 20 countries in a row please! It's my fav
Yeahh I love that videos also
You got your wish!
@@jorisv207 Hehe yep. I'd like to think I made it happen
Basingstoke was such a great shout early on. As soon as you mentioned it I noticed all the roads I used to use for work.
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2 ( elecciones ) 9.5/10
3 ( culturales ) 9.3/10
Son unos de los mejores conciertos. .
10:05 knowing about trains helps because the blue and red stagecoach livery and the 12 Carriges indicates that this is in the South West. They are South West Trains / South Western Railway class 450s (depending on when this photo was taken)
I knew it was Basingstoke because of the train and the station.
I love how chill Tom is, I hate when TH-camrs scream at the camera n shit. I love how Tom is himself
I can’t believe Neath came up first. I live about 10 miles away and was joking to myself that the only town I would recognise from satellite view would be Neath. Then when it came up and he said Neath I was doubting him lol
"It's not a Roman road, it's a ditch!" Map reads: Roman Rd! Good stuff! Love your content! 😄
Plus, 'I am an expert on UK cities....All-trin-cham!'
some random street in the UK
Geowizard: Ah yes behind the so-and-so firestation
That firestation is very very famous in the midlands and is only about 20 minutes from where Tom lives.
A bit of Line of Duty was filmed round the back of it and possibly inside it if I remember correctly. There was a bloke in a freezer or summat
Lag is due to the website not the PC, notice when you zoom in on the map(the one you place the marker down) its quite smooth however the other is not.
Best ways to fix this either make sure no other applications are running, no extra tabs on the browser, or try new browsers like Opera GX or something else.
If he has his browser using integrated graphic on his cpu and not gpu that could be a reason/contributor at least. I only say that because it is weird a desktop is working so hard to look at sat maps.
@@SKSCOMEDY He said he paid $1200 for it, he probably doesn’t even have a GPU
@@DJ3thenew23 what 1200$ PC doesn't have a discrete GPU?
1200 pounds so 2k usd so probably has a 3060 at least
@@GameMarks well £1200 is about $1600 which will get you a pretty solid computer, more than capable enough to handle geoguessr
Really enjoyed this video, as a West Mids resident myself, I thought it would be Meadowhall on that last one aswell, never would have guessed it would be Merry Hill 😂😂
My first thought was somewhere around Dudley as it looked like the M5.
First one I thought - that's the M1 so the location must be Rotherham :) I can't believe he took so long on the Newcastle location - how many rivers have all those bridges?
you can actually select satellite mode for the map within the plug-in , clicking through these buttons in the top right :)
Don't talk to me! I am famous! Don't dislike my good good GOOD videos! Don't talk to me, dear wilas
I feel like that would make it way to easy though haha
Isn't this cheating?
@@risgilz13 kinda, but he asked for it in the video
No i think he means that he isn't allowed to put it on
I live in Basingstoke and I had to stop scrolling and click on the video when I recognised the place
You hovered over my house for a bit aswell
Tom! My late grandmother always watched Coronation street. Thanks for that call back to the show - I haven't heard the theme song since I last watched it with her. Thanks for the nice memory and the great videos as always. :)
A lovely Sunday Satelite video, nice one Tom
Birmingham in seconds!
Honestly, would love to watch you doing some City Skylines.
10:10 As soon as I saw the red-yellow-blue livery I immediately thought South Western Railway. The green train is probably a GWR service.
I just played the germany version of this mode, and the first city that came up was my literal hometown, even the marker was pretty close to the part of the city where I grew up in. That was quite the coincidence.
Stourbridge guy here - can’t believe you’ve never experienced the Mezza!
I clicked on this thinking “I wonder if my little town will be here” less than 5 minutes in Tom zooms in on my house, love it mate
I'm coming James
A small tip for these UK satellite videos; if you can, zoom into railway lines and see if they are electrified or not. Chances are if they have overhead wires or third rail it will make a difference to the guess
I watched this video in hopes of seeing my home town and I was still shocked when it displayed Newcastle! Its always fun seeing your home city on geoguesser
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I instantly knew it was Basingstoke! Those roundabouts are no joke 😅
Please do the US cities over 100K. That would be interesting to see how well you know American cities.
this is better than normal geoguessr maps for you, involves more real geography
Wheyyy greetings from Swansea! Keep up the great work!
I recognized that triangle ring road instantly! Didn't get any of the others though, it's fascinating seeing you do these!
I live near Basingstoke and recognised it almost immediately, but I have no idea how Tom plucked this information out of the air on the first guess!!! What a legend he is...
Stourbridge represent! I mean, it was a terribly depressing place that I moved away from as soon as I could nearly 20 years ago but it was nice to see a pin being dropped right next to where I learned to swim.
"Merry Hill. I've never been there, which is mad. People don't believe me when I tell 'em that"
Lovely gentle midlands patter ❤
For Stourbridge, the giveaway was the shape of the ring road imo
Great video mate, I live in Stourbridge and got it straight away!
Loved that you edited in a video clip there !!
a new mission is coming!! Amazing, Tom. I can't relate or understand (until I see it here) what the challenge is (I guess private property issues...?) but Black country - no roads sounds really good!
The author of the originally planned "CITIES OF 1K" map should be exiled to Vorkuta for the name alone.
Please continue doing the capitals a few more times :)
Till he has to guess mine country's. Then he can stop
@@olakmostas Who is mine country?
@@JohnyG29 ill put money its greece
We're gonna need to hear some songs from that band now you have mentioned it
"And some of you might be asking how I knew it was Basingstoke..."
I'm just waiting for Tom to say, "Look, I'm just really fucking good, ok? And that's that. I didn't get here because I worked hard, I have a gift from God!" Lol
This has been my favourite play along for sure
I was listening but not watching (not that it would have helped much cos I'm shit at maps) but as soon as you mentioned a huge shopping centre my ears pricked up 😂 hi from Dudley!
This was brilliant. The Basingstoke guess was nuts
It is difficult to diagnose why you computer might be stuttering without any information other than a symptom, but as others have said try turning on/off hardware acceleration. Another thing that comes to mind is that your pc could be thermal throttling (the computer slowing down processing speeds to save itself from overheating) because of bad airflow that could be caused by dust buildup. I will say the second option is most likely not the case, as you said you purchased the computer recently, and the odds of enough dust building up that quickly to thermal throttle a PC is astronomically small. Either way, the video was enjoyable nonetheless. Keep it up!
The world cities with 1k population sounds cool, it could be more the style of your a diverse world videos with crazy guesses and whatnot
i could see my house on the last one! although i didn't realise it was stourbridge until you saw merry hill!
It's another classic, thank you for your content
That's cool to know your dad is in Swansea! I was in Cilmaengwyn north of Swansea for 7 years. Loved going to the Mumbles beach and pier.
I'm good with computers and I live in Kidderminster (near stourbridge). Happy to help you over zoom :)
I loved this. I'd love to see you do this again.
Fuckinel that last one killed me as a stourbridge lad. You're meant to be from round hereee
Mad. Watching from Stourbridge. Was screaming it as soon as it loaded 😂😂
I was just so unbelievably bad at this map 🙃
Rounds 1, 2 and 5 were a write-off. I managed to get Round 4 after about half-an-hour of searching through various British towns. It even took me a few minutes to recognise Round 3 and it's my home city; the pin was about 100 yards away from where I play 5-a-side 🤣
I recognised Birmingham and round 5 immediately, since I'm from Birmingham
@@TubaBluba789 Got Brum, you can't not get it if you're a Brummie or a Yam Yam, Spaghetti Junction is just too obvious. Can't believe I didn't get Stourbridge though, kicking myself for that one.
I love your love for rivers
15:50 As a resident of Manchester, I fully endorse the pronunciation of Altrincham
Altrinchum 😂
Good having ya back on the GeoGuesser grind. Been fun watching these vids. Though your other projects also appreciated.
Mate you are absolutely damn right about this script being laggy, but it has nothing to do with neither your hardware, nor broadband connection. I've got my 48 seconds result on Capitals of the World map, which I believe, still stands as a record. I was lucky enough to hit it literally hours before the script updated and it works terribly slow from there on. Maybe it's not the script to blame here, but rather Bing updates, I don't know for certain. Someone with a better knowledge and understanding of the situation might be able to tell what's going wrong here. For me though, this is a win situation, cause it's not longer possible to beat my result, unless there is a fix to these lags.
It's cool to see a youtuber from brum make it big, congrats man.
My day gets a little better each time Bong Davies uploads!
Bong
@@lanceanthony198 wasn't a typo
@@LuxrayIsEpic What is the point of it then
@@lanceanthony198 bong is a mildly offensive slur for brits
@@LuxrayIsEpic Oh, I thought it was a drug joke. Why you gotta be so mean to dear old Tom
The fact I clicked on this just to see if my town was on there, it was, and I firmly said when it showed up, "Well this isn't it" and then it was makes me ashamed on so many levels
This was the first time I tried the satellite mode for geoguessr and it was surprisingly fun. I managed to guess / deduce the first four but the last one completely stumped me. There is not much to go on when you can't read any signs...
Never thought I’d see my place of work on one of your videos😂 nicely done
Cheers from Texas! Great video as always Tom, and I noticed you’ve mentioned your bandmates and wanted a refresher on what the name of your band was as I checked it out over a year ago and I’ve forgotten the name, but the music was very good!
Having spent a lot of time in Stourbridge, I knew it straight away. Great stuff.
Mad I live in Swansea and you noticed it way quicker than I did
Nothing like a bit of what you do best!! Reminds me of the spoons series
as a private pilots license holder in the uk, this map is ideal!
There are some great bands from Swansea. The Pooh Sticks! Helen Love! Acrimony! I think some of the guys from Badfinger are from there too.
My initial thought was Stourbridge for that last one, then when you picked out the Merry Hill Centre it threw me off and I thought Cradley Heath. It was all the old railways and canals that tipped me off.
Honestly Tom you are a wizard
You could see my road when you zoomed in on Newcastle under Lyme. Up the Castle
basingstoke is very distinct from above as it has that sharp triangle from the corner although still very surprised tom got it so quick
I knew there’d be no chance of me getting any of these and then I see St James’ park, instantly recognisable
I guessed the Basingstoke one immediately, the new town arrangement gives it away!
I was in Basingstoke yesterday, when you first said it I didn't think it was right.
But then you zoomed into the pub I was in 😀
“8 yards in Basingstoke” is the name of my new shoegazer indie band
Tom *Looks at map of Basingstoke for 3 seconds. "I think it might be Basingstoke"
You zoomed right into my sixth form and I didn’t even clock it for ages
AlthrinCAM 😂. Seriously though i really enjoyed this episode. Please do more of this.
Tom, thanks for zooming in on the roundabout that I failed my driving test on in Britton Ferry 😭
(note, if using a graphics card made by AMD, this will not apply) My best guess for the computer lag would be it trying to run off the wrong graphics card. While I don't know what your setup is and this might be completely wrong, it could be that your computer is using the integrated graphics instead of the actual fancy expensive graphics card. The way to solve this would be to go to your home screen, right click on your homescreen, at the bottom of the list that pops up click on "show more options", then click on "Nvidia control panel" when the panel opens there should be a thing labelled "manage 3D settings" and once you click on that it should display a bunch of settings, but the important one is at the top, where it should say "Preferred graphics processor:" then make sure it is set to "high performance NVIDIA processor"
I actually live just 10 mins away from Stourbridge and had absolutely no clue on that last round until you said about the Merry Hill Centre 😂🤦♂️
I got Newcaste before you moved. I saw the football stadium. Great video.
You should do the daily 'Worldle' as an intro of sorts to every geoguesser video, since it doesn't take too long
Or as one of them TH-cam shorts maybe
I live next door to the old fire station in brum haha (student halls) wasnt expecting my building to be in a geowizzard vid
Well played! Geo Detective in action!
Spotted Basingstoke from the thumbnail. Can't miss my sh*thole of a town even from miles above the earth!
Your pronunciation of Altrincham cracked me up haha
I've just watched this while sitting about 100yds from the final marker and my initial thought was Sheffield as well. Recognised the shape of the ring road though. Lovely coincidence!
It sounds like your computer is thermal throttling good sir. I recommend looking into the quality of your cooling. Good video
Nice Video!
Not even watched a second of the video, the town in the thumbnail is Basingstoke
i was howling when you got stourbridge haha, i was like surely he knows it's not that far away from him at all haha
"I've looked at Birmingham a lot from above, planning... I've got something planned..."
Scotland Yard? Hello??
I don't think i've ever seen you get a 0 yarder on video. Well done!
Shift+Escape opens task manager for the browser, check if something is using a lot of resources.
Ctrl+Shift+Escape opens Windows task manager, check if something is using a lot of resources.
A lot of the times you just need to restart the browser or computer to clear out some old junk from the memory.