Thanks for your comments everyone, keep 'em coming! Also, be sure to tune in tomorrow afternoon for the line review video for the Mission Across Norway, in which I divulge some important information about some false readings on my line, as well as some great ideas on how we can more fairly and accurately judge the success of a straight line mission going forward!
Just to set the record straight, I do not consider Porgutal or Spane to be obscure countries, but rather got carried away and forgot the whole point of the map.
Something really interesting is that Alicante and Oran are twinned cities. Oran has a long history of welcoming Alicantine refugees (first time, moriscos expelled by the Crown, last time, Republican exiles during the Civil War), to the point some Alicantine traditions even managed to appear there. Oran was also under Spanish control for two centuries.
Interesting link! It's also the home of french author Albert Camus, and the setting of his novel The Plague (I read it during corona virus lockdown,. Hah!)
@@DadgeCity inductive is reasoning from the special to the general. In other words from the empirical to the theoretical. From the single photosphere, single city to look at to the country and general place on earth. But there is some deductive reasoning for example in knowing what clues to look for, like the name of who the picture is from, that the compass could be wrong or that on this map more of those usually less frequent countries are possible. Good fun watching this. Thanks Tom!
Oran is a beautiful city - it was occupied by Spain, France, Ottomans, and local Berbers and Arabs - so the architecture is diverse. The fort at the top of the hill (next to the church photosphere) is scenic gold. It will host the 2022 Mediterranean Games (Athletics) and is the location where the British Navy sunk the French Fleet in 1940, to prevent the axis using those battleships.
I my guess was actually the exact same location as Tom's and when I saw the solution, I was wondering how I could possibly have overseen this. But seeing that Tom made the exact same mistake made me feel better.
Tom analyzing an empty field: The degree of the sun mixed with the shade of this flower places us firmly in the northwest corner of Romania, Lock it in. Tom looking at languages: There's an n with a squiggle on it?
please give this another try, its amazing how we can see places we are not used to. It makes me feel like the world is even bigger than what i have known
Not once, but there have been several occasions where I've finished recording a video, which has sometimes featured high scores and insane guesses, only to find I hadn't recorded a second.
Saw the Double Tree logo too and asked myself there’s a double tree in Zanzibar? Would have given him an easy 5000 if he saw it since hotels are always advertised and clear on the map
12:24 "This isn't part of Spain is it, it's not one of those Spanish enclaves" You're thinking of Ceuta and Melilla, but Oran used to be one for about 260 years before they abandoned it after a major earthquake in the region. Spain and Portugal had a shitload of these back in the day. It's honestly kind of weird Spain even still has Ceuta and Melilla.
Tom really should learn some Cyrillic, the name of the photographer was Mehrubon Husainov which in itself doesn't help one bit, but in many cases being able to decipher the Cyrillic texts would be super useful in finding the right place
Tom, you can actually learn Cyrillic script in a matter of hours! A lot of letters overlap with the Latin and Greek alphabet, both of which you are familiar with. That Tajik guy's last name might have tipped you off that we were in a Muslim-majority country: Hussaynov
I did some research on the city after this video and I saved a few hotels and sights to google maps. Hope to visit someday! I like going to areas where tourists don't usually visit
Okay, so, in the Cyrillic alphabet you've got 'и', 'й' and 'н'. The main two are 'и' and 'н' and they are respectively 'i' (pronounced as 'i' in 'machine') and 'n' even though they both bear resemblance to the Latin 'N'. In older Bulgarian writings you would find them as 'И' and 'N' (again 'i' and 'n'). 'Й' on the other hand is called 'и кратко', aka short 'и', even though it can be compared with 'y' in English in words such as 'yoghurt' and 'j' in German, e.g. 'jung'. So, basically, the difference is the direction of the slope of the horizontal line.
I had no idea that the compass had no bearing in photospheres so followed it blindly buuuut, it didn’t hinder too much 🤷🏻♂️ Round 1 - Maracaibo. I just went a little further north on the peninsula. Round 2 - It felt Mediterranean but somehow different so went North Africa. Ended up clicking Algiers...right country...still less points that you Round 3 - Saw Iraq outline and flag on the posters. Saw the flags and ministry of trade and had to be Baghdad. Clicked a few roads away. Round 4 - Saw the Arabian influenced door and balconies. European style number above the door. English writing on the business hours. Didn’t see the Zanzibar Streetview...Went for Malta. Round 5 - Couldn’t pin point ethnicities but thought somewhere Middle Eastern was most likely. Saw building with neon lights on top and aircon units so thinking touristy and warm. Building in the background half finished. Went for Izmir Turkey. Total score - 14,922. Zanzibar and Tajikistan seriously hit the scores but went roughly with your thinking and had I seen the Zanzibar Streetview probably would’ve got a very similar score so not complaining.
Algeria is my home country and Oran was one of the best trips of my life even tho I stayed there for 3 days. The view of santa cruz was breathtaking. And i miss it so much. As soon as I saw the thumbnail of the video i thought it can't be ! Oran 💝🥺😭
Another good one. Takes me back to my days as a kid scouring Atlases and imagining what the places looked like IRL. Now we can find out in seconds. Amazing!
I've become obsessed with this game just in the past couple weeks and have been playing along in a lot of your videos. I usually do travel videos in Mexico but last night made my first geoguessr video. Thanks for all your awesome videos!
I've never been more proud in this game than getting 4990 points on the first question. All it took was 8 foot letters literally spelling out where I am for me :)
1. 11 points. Guessed Hurgada, Egypt. Maracaib(o) just fooled me. Great start, eh! 2. 3949 points. Guessed Gibraltar, even though I knew it would be wrong. Also looked at Spain, Portugal and other European mediterranean countries. 3. 4984 points. Searched for ministry of trade/tradition for a couple of minutes and gave up. 4. 5000 points. Thought french colony right away, but the "photo name" obv gave it away. 5. 2278 points. Short on time I gambled on Nur-Sultan/Astana. Total 16222 points
I'm just watching this now and I watched some of the newest ones first. I spent half the time yelling "this is an OBSCURE map" lol. You still got so much closer than I ever would have thought so... you are amazing!
Hey Tom. Wondering if you could check out my Every F1 Circuit Ever map - I know you have watched a fair bit of F1, and some old bangers of circuits are included, and some very difficult ones indeed.
A relatively new follower of your videos here. First time I actually played along - though possibly since it's been a while since the video was posted, or because the picture randomly just wouldn't load, I had to look to your video for the first one, though I switched over as soon as you started zooming in to the Google Map. You outscored me by about a 1000 points. I was pretty much spot on for rounds 1, 3 and 4, losing only 9 points from a perfect score. Round 2 made me lose out on big points, as I went with Beirut. Even though I guessed closer (Almaty, Kazakhstan), I could not make up the difference with the fifth round.
Of all the games to enjoy watching someone stream... this man has somehow roped me in. The walk across Wales and Norway stuff just sealed the deal... And the better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be chiptune album he put out. WHO ARE YOU, TOM?
I had an epic guess (for my standards) with Tajikistan and Dushanbe (only 1,4 km away) and I feel like boasting but i am alone in my flat so i decided to write that here. I loved watching the compilations with insane guesses of yours and now I know what that feels like.
Sth about Oran The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. Im poland this reading is compulsory for the matura exam. Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
As soon as the 4th round loaded I knew it was Stonetown in Zanzibar! They are very famous for their beautiful ornate doors and narrow streets. I even have a feeling that I went to Cafe Turquoise when I visited almost 7 years ago.. I was attending a music school in Stonetown where we were taught a genre of music called 'Taarab' traditional to Zanzibar. I went to Cafe Turquoise (or a very similar looking cafe, I might be wrong) with some friends in a lunch break and they were so slow to prepare our food, even though we were the only costumers. When the food finally arrived we swallowed it incredibly fast so we wouldn't be late for class haha and we ran back across town. I think I had a veggie burger.. Thank you for this video Tom, didn't think a geoguessr video could bring back so many good memories :)
I'm surprised how well I did! 1: 4,995 -- A little farther south than Tom 2: 5,000 -- Thought it was Beirut at first, but the compass didn't match, so searched the entire southern Mediterranean to find that particular breakwater. 3: 4,999 -- Same spot as Tom 4: 4,998 -- Same spot as Tom. I found the info on the ground. 5: 3,456 -- Guessed Islamabad cause some of the guys look north Indian, along with some of the decor and architecture. I wish I'd noticed the author name while doing it -- the last name is "Husainov", which is a great hint for an Islamic former-Soviet place. Total 23,448 / 29 minutes
21:22 just to the left of Tom’s cursor there’s a label for a place called "Suicide Alley" which also backs up Tom’s statement that Zanzibar looks cool hahaha
I thought its the middle east because of the architecture and the white/yellow paint job. Completely disregarded the cliffs and compass, which bit me in the arse. The first guess was bullshit tho.
@@SneakyBadAssOG haha, yeah, it could be, though... The only difference are the cliffs, which I remember of paintings of myths from Tunis... "Dido et Aeneas" You really can't rely on the compass with these 3D photos..
20 386 ! I beat Tom for the first time! Tom, Bulgarian names end in V, like mine. The last guy's name sounded Russian, but had Muslim roots, so based on that I personally went for Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Thanks for all the play along links ;)
3:05 Yup you are right! It's the second city of Venezuela :) This is the first time I've seen you guess a place from my country, and I'm so happy for it. Please, try this map again to see if we appear again hehe
6:21 Actually no. I think the exact point was further south at that bend. In the sphere you can see the second bend to the south and the straight road along the shore. Plus you can see the parking lot on the sphere that is shown on the map. At your point the road would bend away from the shoreline.
Tom you could probably learn to sound out Cyrillic words super easily and I bet it would help a lot. I can't speak Russian beyond the basics but being able to sound out words on signs has helped my geoguessr game A TON. Like, I dunno, компьютер ... anyone who knows the alphabet can sound out "computer". Same for Greek!
Oran was indeed held by the spanish for a fair while, one of several of the big north african ports that they had. It's an important enough city in the region that I'm surprised you'd never heard of it!
Gave it a go: 1. I thought I was in Africa at first but eventually found Maracaibo. The compass made me really confused for a while but eventually I got 4993 points. I went a few km too much to the south. Shame about the marker. 2. I was completely stumped. It kinda looked European but there isn't anything that obscure there, it looked too lush for Africa. So my gut instinct was Caribbean/South America. I restorted to going around all kinds of coastlines to see if they match. Eventually gave up and put it in Panama City cause why not. Never would have guessed Algeria tbh, I thought the places I was at was a church or something. 46 points :( 3. Picked the wrong square and got 4988 points. 4. If it wasn't for "Zanzbiar StreetView" I would never have even considered it. It looked like somewhere in Southern Europe, what a crazy round. 5000! 5. This was so hard, the people at the table seemed like they were from 10 different countries. Central Asia crossed my mind a few times but eventually I settled on Balkans and also went with Skopje. Damn. 544 pts. 15 571 overall. Not too happy but some of these were very hard, so I'm not too mad either.
I think I know why there are two "Scandinavian-looking" people in Tajikistan. Right next to the correct location on the map there is a text "JYSK Tajikistan", at 27:41. JYSK is a Danish store chain for (cheep) home decoration. My guess is that the Scandinavians are on an inspection trip to the most successful JYSK store in all of Tajikistan.
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Thanks for your comments everyone, keep 'em coming!
Also, be sure to tune in tomorrow afternoon for the line review video for the Mission Across Norway, in which I divulge some important information about some false readings on my line, as well as some great ideas on how we can more fairly and accurately judge the success of a straight line mission going forward!
Any hints on where your going next geo?
Thanks for playing my map, Geowizard! Glad you had a good time, and I hope everyone else enjoys it too!
@@burger9997 i think he said scotland
@@burger9997 Scotland in March
Richard Herring and Marek Larwood saying your straight line missions are best thing on TH-cam in the latest RHLSTP
who else was screaming at him at 2:20 when he scrolled past Maracaibo 😂
Damn too late
Had his arrow practically on it...
Haha saw it as well...sometimes staring you in the face :-)
Came to the comments for this very thing
Yes. Glad this was the top comment. Didn't have to scroll
> Kid wearing jeans and a T Shirt
"A bit behind on the fashion"
Is this a personal attack?
Turns out the picture might have been taken in 2014, so he might very well be in style
Yeah this is a shocking way to find out I'm actually an Iraqi child
Tom is confused why he isn't wearing military surplus and a gopro
I mean I'm not a fashionista but look at those jeans.....
@@seethrough_treeshrew Those are still fashionable in the middle east as far as I can tell from only friends' instagrams. Not in Europe though ;D
Obscure Countries
Tom: I'm thinking Portugal or Spain..
Just to set the record straight, I do not consider Porgutal or Spane to be obscure countries, but rather got carried away and forgot the whole point of the map.
tbf venezuela isn't exactly obscure
@@person9815 by obscure I think they mean countries without google streetview
@@GeoWizard S P A N E
No offense but when he said that I was yelling at the screen no it has to be a country that you never get (that's the point).
22:40 : POV you are an obscure country being looked at by the Geowizard
thanks for the laugh x
Lmao
Made me laugh, thanks!
😂😂
havent laughed that hard in a while xD
I bet the Iraq kid did not expect to be roasted like that
Especially by fashion icon Thomas Davies
@@renjithjoseph7135 hahahaha this comment made it even funnier
Didn’t think about the way he actually dresses and he’s out here roasting a random kid lmao
@@obamasinladen947 thanks Obama
Something really interesting is that Alicante and Oran are twinned cities. Oran has a long history of welcoming Alicantine refugees (first time, moriscos expelled by the Crown, last time, Republican exiles during the Civil War), to the point some Alicantine traditions even managed to appear there. Oran was also under Spanish control for two centuries.
Thanks for sharing!
Interesting link!
It's also the home of french author Albert Camus, and the setting of his novel The Plague (I read it during corona virus lockdown,. Hah!)
amazing
@@Schizopantheist and the home of yves saint laurent
Correction : oran was under spanish control for 300 yrs and not 200😊
Zanzibar straight line mission confirmed
I’ve been to Zanzibar, and it seems like the absolute perfect place to do a straight line challenge
@@Vhill7299 it's only 20 kilometres coast to coast
now that I'd like to see! that being said I'm absolutely down for any straight line mission :D
I don't even like geography, I just like inductive reasoning.
I like both. GeoGuessr is perfect for me.
Not sure whether it's inductive or deductive. Or both.
Same
@@DadgeCity inductive is reasoning from the special to the general. In other words from the empirical to the theoretical.
From the single photosphere, single city to look at to the country and general place on earth.
But there is some deductive reasoning for example in knowing what clues to look for, like the name of who the picture is from, that the compass could be wrong or that on this map more of those usually less frequent countries are possible.
Good fun watching this. Thanks Tom!
Okay Sherlock
Oran is a beautiful city - it was occupied by Spain, France, Ottomans, and local Berbers and Arabs - so the architecture is diverse. The fort at the top of the hill (next to the church photosphere) is scenic gold. It will host the 2022 Mediterranean Games (Athletics) and is the location where the British Navy sunk the French Fleet in 1940, to prevent the axis using those battleships.
did i ask?
@@bossman-ci2md no but I did.
@@bossman-ci2md sad
@@bossman-ci2md are you the centre of the universe?
@@leadnitrate2194 shut up u chemistry nerd
That Tajikistan photo is so surreal it looks like a place you would see in your dreams
@Veronica Pascucci last one
Backrooms but outside
@@alpers.2123 Backside?
Last Supper Vibe
@Veronica Pascucci 23:58
17:38 Can't believe he didn't connect the "International Exhibition" with the loads of flags on display
He was busy thinking a small park with a child covering half the whole path was a roundabout with multiple lanes
Came here to comment this, choice the "save iraqi culture monument instead"
I was gouging my eyes out when I noticed him hover over that thing with his cursor yet still couldn't see it...
You can also see the lights from the sports stadium in the background, which was another giveaway
I my guess was actually the exact same location as Tom's and when I saw the solution, I was wondering how I could possibly have overseen this. But seeing that Tom made the exact same mistake made me feel better.
Tom analyzing an empty field: The degree of the sun mixed with the shade of this flower places us firmly in the northwest corner of Romania, Lock it in.
Tom looking at languages: There's an n with a squiggle on it?
Hahaha
You may be looking at an 'm' drawn very poorly
Й
Looks at a power line and a palm tree: Wow we are for sure in Ecuador. Lock it in.
Looks at the flag of Myanmar: is that in Africa?
🇷🇴🇷🇴
please give this another try, its amazing how we can see places we are not used to. It makes me feel like the world is even bigger than what i have known
Clicked on the link, got a whopping 57 points and clicked back on the video lmao
57 you did better than me, *a connoisseur i see*
2:23
"I have no clue where this place is"
his cursor is literally 1cm away from it
I was SCREAMING at the monitor lmao
I didn't want to cry but it was too painful not to
That's 2 seconds too late you pointed out
@@bartterp88 agreed
This is super fun actually! Really caters to the "learning about the world" aspect of Geoguessr, and much more broadly.
How many times when you said "is it recording?" it actually wasnt recording?
Not once, but there have been several occasions where I've finished recording a video, which has sometimes featured high scores and insane guesses, only to find I hadn't recorded a second.
@@GeoWizard oh well that must have sucked
@@GeoWizard It is funny to imagine Tom alone in his flat saying “Get In”.
@@lfeng1008 Insane geography fan from Britain talks to himself while looking at images and maps for half an hour
@@lfeng1008 doesn’t look much like a flat in the background but ok
In Zanzibar, there actually was more information directly at his feet. I was screaming at him to look down :D
Saw the Double Tree logo too and asked myself there’s a double tree in Zanzibar? Would have given him an easy 5000 if he saw it since hotels are always advertised and clear on the map
Tembo hotel I saw it when I was playing 😂 Was just hoping he would look down
wait i don't understand what is the double tree?
12:24 "This isn't part of Spain is it, it's not one of those Spanish enclaves"
You're thinking of Ceuta and Melilla, but Oran used to be one for about 260 years before they abandoned it after a major earthquake in the region.
Spain and Portugal had a shitload of these back in the day. It's honestly kind of weird Spain even still has Ceuta and Melilla.
fascinating!
"the guy who took this, Machapa Zakata... I'm sorry"
tom is hilarious
Tom really should learn some Cyrillic, the name of the photographer was Mehrubon Husainov which in itself doesn't help one bit, but in many cases being able to decipher the Cyrillic texts would be super useful in finding the right place
За ним уже выехали xD
@@64ankka actually it helps as it's a muslim cyrillic name which would narrow it down to a handful of countries
@@64ankka did you get that off the top of your head? Or did you use google translate?
Tom, you can actually learn Cyrillic script in a matter of hours! A lot of letters overlap with the Latin and Greek alphabet, both of which you are familiar with.
That Tajik guy's last name might have tipped you off that we were in a Muslim-majority country: Hussaynov
It was also his first name to give a hint to be it Uzbekistan or Tajikistan
Fun fact, I'm from Oran, Algeria and its beautiful and recommend you to go there you'll never regret it
Wahran
It surprised me a lot how modern it looked
it truly looks beautiful!
I did some research on the city after this video and I saved a few hotels and sights to google maps. Hope to visit someday! I like going to areas where tourists don't usually visit
@@KilpatrickProductions to be fair, there are a lot of places where tourists visit.
There is also a map called "a complete world" which has all the countries in the world in it, could also be fun.
Okay, so, in the Cyrillic alphabet you've got 'и', 'й' and 'н'. The main two are 'и' and 'н' and they are respectively 'i' (pronounced as 'i' in 'machine') and 'n' even though they both bear resemblance to the Latin 'N'. In older Bulgarian writings you would find them as 'И' and 'N' (again 'i' and 'n'). 'Й' on the other hand is called 'и кратко', aka short 'и', even though it can be compared with 'y' in English in words such as 'yoghurt' and 'j' in German, e.g. 'jung'. So, basically, the difference is the direction of the slope of the horizontal line.
POV: Going to get something to eat to enjoy a new GeoWizard video
eat your cereal
Eatin some pop tarts
Oatmeal with berries
Eating Indian cuisine here !🙌🏼
@@ChandraKanth7 ooh what kind, I always love to add cashew milk, turmeric, cardamom in my oatmeal
I had no idea that the compass had no bearing in photospheres so followed it blindly buuuut, it didn’t hinder too much 🤷🏻♂️
Round 1 - Maracaibo. I just went a little further north on the peninsula.
Round 2 - It felt Mediterranean but somehow different so went North Africa. Ended up clicking Algiers...right country...still less points that you
Round 3 - Saw Iraq outline and flag on the posters. Saw the flags and ministry of trade and had to be Baghdad. Clicked a few roads away.
Round 4 - Saw the Arabian influenced door and balconies. European style number above the door. English writing on the business hours. Didn’t see the Zanzibar Streetview...Went for Malta.
Round 5 - Couldn’t pin point ethnicities but thought somewhere Middle Eastern was most likely. Saw building with neon lights on top and aircon units so thinking touristy and warm. Building in the background half finished. Went for Izmir Turkey.
Total score - 14,922. Zanzibar and Tajikistan seriously hit the scores but went roughly with your thinking and had I seen the Zanzibar Streetview probably would’ve got a very similar score so not complaining.
Hah, went for Malta first as well. So did Tom. Weird how Malta and Zanzibar, as far as away as they are both felt the most intuitive immediately.
Algeria is my home country and Oran was one of the best trips of my life even tho I stayed there for 3 days. The view of santa cruz was breathtaking. And i miss it so much. As soon as I saw the thumbnail of the video i thought it can't be ! Oran 💝🥺😭
Another good one. Takes me back to my days as a kid scouring Atlases and imagining what the places looked like IRL. Now we can find out in seconds. Amazing!
On round 4 there was a Zanzibar plaque on the ground that I found accidentally
Nice. I didn't even think of looking down.
Yeah I was just yelling at him to look down. Thankfully he found the image credit saying Zanzibar.
@@aspzx same here i got perfect because of it
There was also a DoubleTree sign on the wall. Would've helped him out a lot.
Yeah, that really helped me narrow down the exact location. There was also a Double Tree by Hilton sign to the left, albeit a bit blurry.
“Ive never seen Zanzibar, the black guy would back that up”
I've become obsessed with this game just in the past couple weeks and have been playing along in a lot of your videos. I usually do travel videos in Mexico but last night made my first geoguessr video. Thanks for all your awesome videos!
I've never been more proud in this game than getting 4990 points on the first question. All it took was 8 foot letters literally spelling out where I am for me :)
1. 11 points. Guessed Hurgada, Egypt. Maracaib(o) just fooled me. Great start, eh!
2. 3949 points. Guessed Gibraltar, even though I knew it would be wrong. Also looked at Spain, Portugal and other European mediterranean countries.
3. 4984 points. Searched for ministry of trade/tradition for a couple of minutes and gave up.
4. 5000 points. Thought french colony right away, but the "photo name" obv gave it away.
5. 2278 points. Short on time I gambled on Nur-Sultan/Astana.
Total 16222 points
Greetings from an Algerian guy living in Norway! Love your content 👍😁
Oran is the city Albert Camus' 1947 novel 'The Plague' is set in, funnily enough.
I live in Oran lol
@@hishamkhaldi9848 ستغليت تاريخ وهران و المكانة لي عندها لتكون مدينة سياحية بامتياز
Photosphere tip: Always look on the ground. You missed an ID stamp on the floor of the Zanzibar pic. Not that you needed it in that case. :D
I've played most of Tom's challenges and this marks the first time I've beaten his score! I'm excited that I'm improving. Thanks Tom!
This just adds fuel to my GeoGuessr addiction
I'm just watching this now and I watched some of the newest ones first. I spent half the time yelling "this is an OBSCURE map" lol. You still got so much closer than I ever would have thought so... you are amazing!
Hey Tom. Wondering if you could check out my Every F1 Circuit Ever map - I know you have watched a fair bit of F1, and some old bangers of circuits are included, and some very difficult ones indeed.
Link it here mate!
Lmao at 2:20 you pretty much had your cursor on Maracaibo on the map :D Love your videos!
This really is a great map. Looking forward to see it again
A relatively new follower of your videos here. First time I actually played along - though possibly since it's been a while since the video was posted, or because the picture randomly just wouldn't load, I had to look to your video for the first one, though I switched over as soon as you started zooming in to the Google Map. You outscored me by about a 1000 points. I was pretty much spot on for rounds 1, 3 and 4, losing only 9 points from a perfect score. Round 2 made me lose out on big points, as I went with Beirut. Even though I guessed closer (Almaty, Kazakhstan), I could not make up the difference with the fifth round.
That’s a great map. Would love to see more of that in the future!
Content on your channel just keeps getting better and better. Pure quality.
This was very fun to watch, hope to see more episodes of obscure photospheres :)
Of all the games to enjoy watching someone stream... this man has somehow roped me in. The walk across Wales and Norway stuff just sealed the deal... And the better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be chiptune album he put out.
WHO ARE YOU, TOM?
I had an epic guess (for my standards) with Tajikistan and Dushanbe (only 1,4 km away) and I feel like boasting but i am alone in my flat so i decided to write that here. I loved watching the compilations with insane guesses of yours and now I know what that feels like.
These play along videos are great! Nice video!
16:31 when he zooms out you can see the Ministry of Trade on the top of the map
I clicked on the video because of the photo of Oran in the thumbnail. Thanks for the video.
"I know my bends"
You should do more of these! Really enjoyable to watch :)
Me: Malta?
Him: Malta.
Me: :00000
Mercury: Nope, Zanzibar
Sth about Oran
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran.
Im poland this reading is compulsory for the matura exam.
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
That Oran photosphere is beautiful
As soon as the 4th round loaded I knew it was Stonetown in Zanzibar! They are very famous for their beautiful ornate doors and narrow streets. I even have a feeling that I went to Cafe Turquoise when I visited almost 7 years ago.. I was attending a music school in Stonetown where we were taught a genre of music called 'Taarab' traditional to Zanzibar. I went to Cafe Turquoise (or a very similar looking cafe, I might be wrong) with some friends in a lunch break and they were so slow to prepare our food, even though we were the only costumers. When the food finally arrived we swallowed it incredibly fast so we wouldn't be late for class haha and we ran back across town. I think I had a veggie burger.. Thank you for this video Tom, didn't think a geoguessr video could bring back so many good memories :)
That's a really fun map, looking forward to more
This guys videos are so chilled out, love it!
The only reason I knew where Maracaibo is because I used to play as a kid Sid Meier's Pirates... xD
I knew it instantly from Mercenaries 2: World in Flames lol
Basically half the cities I know of are from Civilization and its mods though
Can’t stop watching these videos for some reason ahah. Keep it up man
His eyes are immaculate at reading small blurred text
I'm surprised how well I did!
1: 4,995 -- A little farther south than Tom
2: 5,000 -- Thought it was Beirut at first, but the compass didn't match, so searched the entire southern Mediterranean to find that particular breakwater.
3: 4,999 -- Same spot as Tom
4: 4,998 -- Same spot as Tom. I found the info on the ground.
5: 3,456 -- Guessed Islamabad cause some of the guys look north Indian, along with some of the decor and architecture. I wish I'd noticed the author name while doing it -- the last name is "Husainov", which is a great hint for an Islamic former-Soviet place.
Total 23,448 / 29 minutes
Straight to the point, "I'm too shit"
21:22 just to the left of Tom’s cursor there’s a label for a place called "Suicide Alley" which also backs up Tom’s statement that Zanzibar looks cool hahaha
I saw that fortress and those cliffs and immediatly thought of North-Africa... Because of mythologies I learnt at school etc..
I immediately thought of Ceuta for some reason, one of those Spanish areas in Morocco.
Reminded me of Safi, Morocco. But that's further than where he was at so.
I thought its the middle east because of the architecture and the white/yellow paint job. Completely disregarded the cliffs and compass, which bit me in the arse.
The first guess was bullshit tho.
@@SneakyBadAssOG haha, yeah, it could be, though... The only difference are the cliffs, which I remember of paintings of myths from Tunis... "Dido et Aeneas"
You really can't rely on the compass with these 3D photos..
Tom I hope you know how much we love your content, thanks mate
When it shows the city I've never heard of, I got 1 while this man scores 4999
20 386 ! I beat Tom for the first time! Tom, Bulgarian names end in V, like mine. The last guy's name sounded Russian, but had Muslim roots, so based on that I personally went for Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Thanks for all the play along links ;)
I did terribly on all of these except the last one where I got 1 mile away
Proudest moment of my life
This is a really great map! Huge fan :)
14:00 - 14:10 Am i tripping or did i just see that kid twice??
It's a glitch in the Matrix.
omg they look identical lmao
I love how "there's another one, look" about the sign can be interpreted for the kid as well
probably because of the panorama
@@kaspervercruysse5710 yeah exactly lmao
3:05 Yup you are right! It's the second city of Venezuela :) This is the first time I've seen you guess a place from my country, and I'm so happy for it. Please, try this map again to see if we appear again hehe
i was very surprised when i looked straigt down on the floor on the zanzibar one 😂
6:21 Actually no. I think the exact point was further south at that bend. In the sphere you can see the second bend to the south and the straight road along the shore. Plus you can see the parking lot on the sphere that is shown on the map. At your point the road would bend away from the shoreline.
When is the mission across Russia in a straight line
This is a super cool map, love the video. Definitely play this map again!
22:20 - a previous sultan if Oman, probably.
That’s just where he lives
Oran was in fact under Spanish rule long ago. All the important cities in that coast have been.
Yup true like the city Tangier in Morocco and they quit look the same tbh with that European vibe
@@Vaikida Well Tangier was until mid 50s
Damn, that N with a squiggle on did you in at the end there.
It's just a 'y' sound as in 'you' as well 😂
й is chyrillic j
‘Obscure countries’ and guessing Spain… come on Tom, you’re better than that ;) love the channel!!
24:14 Omg, didn't know Tom speaks russian
Sorry, he can't even read the letters he's said. Learning the letters can be good help for GeoGuessr though, as Aleksandr Lomakin above exemplifies.
This was a great one. I got 5k points myself was really difficult for me. Good vid once again Tom!
If it's a night time photo then look up to the sky and the position of the stars.
This was a fun round! Would love to see you play it again in the future
"photospheres in obscure countries"
Goes to Spain
I’ve been BINGING your channel lately
Tom you could probably learn to sound out Cyrillic words super easily and I bet it would help a lot.
I can't speak Russian beyond the basics but being able to sound out words on signs has helped my geoguessr game A TON.
Like, I dunno, компьютер ... anyone who knows the alphabet can sound out "computer". Same for Greek!
19:33 why am I laughing so hard when he says Zanzibar street view out of nowhere 😂😂
We need more of these Tom, get in! Love the content as always.
Wtf, I just read "The Plague" by Camus which takes place in Oran, Algeria and is largely about the city. I thought it was fictional lol.
I’ve never thought I was gonna see you mentioning Alicante in one of your videos. Keep it going.
"Are we recording"? 1:55 bingo
Oran was indeed held by the spanish for a fair while, one of several of the big north african ports that they had. It's an important enough city in the region that I'm surprised you'd never heard of it!
Well, after failing at the 1st four locations I pulled an insane guess on the 5th getting 4988 points. I'll take it!
Gave it a go:
1. I thought I was in Africa at first but eventually found Maracaibo. The compass made me really confused for a while but eventually I got 4993 points. I went a few km too much to the south. Shame about the marker.
2. I was completely stumped. It kinda looked European but there isn't anything that obscure there, it looked too lush for Africa. So my gut instinct was Caribbean/South America. I restorted to going around all kinds of coastlines to see if they match. Eventually gave up and put it in Panama City cause why not. Never would have guessed Algeria tbh, I thought the places I was at was a church or something. 46 points :(
3. Picked the wrong square and got 4988 points.
4. If it wasn't for "Zanzbiar StreetView" I would never have even considered it. It looked like somewhere in Southern Europe, what a crazy round. 5000!
5. This was so hard, the people at the table seemed like they were from 10 different countries. Central Asia crossed my mind a few times but eventually I settled on Balkans and also went with Skopje. Damn. 544 pts.
15 571 overall. Not too happy but some of these were very hard, so I'm not too mad either.
“Bit behind on the fashion but that’s ok”
I think I know why there are two "Scandinavian-looking" people in Tajikistan. Right next to the correct location on the map there is a text "JYSK Tajikistan", at 27:41. JYSK is a Danish store chain for (cheep) home decoration. My guess is that the Scandinavians are on an inspection trip to the most successful JYSK store in all of Tajikistan.
2:20 when you scroll by Maracaibo without seeing it 😂
I was screaming at this point!
I was desperated