This was the first video where I was actually yelling at you through the computer screen. First Hong Kong, then Istanbul, Montreal, Vienna, Philadelphia, and of course that one cold looking city Also the baseball field guessing is absolutely deranged, i love it
Love this guesswhere "series", for sure my favourite videos of yours that you've done. It's like the perfect content for me. Thanks for making this grown man excited to watch another grown man look at satellite images.
you should look more at two things: 1) the economic development of a place, typically huge highways airports and plazas are not found in poorer countries 2) architecture of neighborhoods. soviet blocks are really easy to identify and immediately direct you to a region of the world.
He does number 2 for South American and US cities pretty regularly. American suburbs have a pretty distinctive layout; it's just hard to tell exactly where you are in the country a lot of the time (unless there's an open football stadium).
For the Baku round, there is a massive offshore oil city just to the South. It was a dead giveaway but also just a really cool piece of infrastructure.
Interesting to see that weird blur on the Marseille round. The same area is not blurred on google maps or street view, it’s just a bunch of government buildings. Good work figuring it all out anyway 😄About Vladivostok “Owing to the influence of the Siberian High, winters are much colder than a latitude of 43 degrees should warrant” from wiki
16:15 I think it was totally fine to look at the stadium there. Should not be the first thing to do, but definitely do it before guessing at random. It is kind of lame when it has the city name, but very interesting when it does not.
I believe out of the four I've played so far, this one was by far the easiest. I got pretty much every city instantly (including Vladivostok), the one that took me the longest was Antananarivo. I should have definitely recognised it though because I've looked at the map before when learning the trekkers and that lake in the city centre is quite distinct. I popped off when my hometown Hamburg showed up, of course that was the easiest one in the set for me ;)
The pure Austrian rage when you asked "could this be Germany?" for Vienna. :D Marseille is another one of those cities with a really distinctive football stadion, the Stade Velodrome.
Wow, Vladivostok looks so awful from above. Soviet apartments buildings look like some sea containers. Vladivostok has a temperate climate, but looks like a city from artcic circle. And looks so hilly from above, much more than you would thought.
Great video as always, love this series. I did this set before, as sort of a preparation for this vid haha, i gor 47/50. The ones i missed were Suva, Antananarivo and Tegucigalpa (No idea how i missed that one), some thoughts: It's really interesting how different our strategies are, for example i don't know jack shit about sports, so stadiums of any kind don't help me at all (i don't know the difference between a cricket or a baseball stadium). I noticed you tend to zoom out more and just look at the city as a whole, while i always zoom in looking for architecture or distinct landmarks (if i don't instantly know the city). I think one of your weaknesses is not easily differentiating certain architectural styles (for example Soviet architecture is very disctint, could have helped you a lot in the Minsk and Vladivostok rounds). I got Philadeplhia instantly because it's one of the very few US cities that looks disctinct in any way to me, it doesn't have the typical suburb structure with detached houses but rather has rows of connected houses that look very distinct (Baltimore is the same). Tirana was very very tricky for me, like you mentioned it doesn't look like the rest of Europe. Never in a million years would i have thought of Madagascar. Suva is also never coming to mind, and i have no idea how i missed Tegucigalpa, i think i tried just about every city in Lat Am. Looking forward to more, having done a little of set 5 i can say it's a massive step up in dificulty.
Just the other day I had a Minsk trekker in front of an info sign that had the map of the city, so I immediately recognized the shape of the river. My 'cold city' guess was Torshavn the entire time but I felt like it was too big.
My strengths are clearly in different parts of the world from yours. I immediately recognized most of the European cities. On the other hand, the American ones were much harder for me. I would never have recognized LA or Philadelphia by looking at a stadium. Still I guessed Denver right when I noticed that you briefly scrolled over the mountains.
I've been waiting to see Istanbul (or any other Turkish city) since the first video of the series and I'm shocked that It wasn't obvious to you in first glance. Like with Bosporus and Golden Horn It has a very distinct geography.
It's the first time I think I did better than you aha. I knew what Vladivostok and Marseille look like, Tirana striked me as european and I got Minsk thanks to its rings which reminded me of Moscow. Good video as always
Winter coverage made it looking very northern. However, it's not very cold. It's warmer than Siberian cities. Summer is warm and humid; water is warm enough to swim for 2-3 months.
@@jakelyonsgeo fair enough, it's not the easiest to remember. Btw, the title did not disappoint - can't believe how cold that city appeared to be. I had a look at it on Google satellite, and it looks so warm in comparison lol
This was the first video where I was actually yelling at you through the computer screen. First Hong Kong, then Istanbul, Montreal, Vienna, Philadelphia, and of course that one cold looking city
Also the baseball field guessing is absolutely deranged, i love it
Love this guesswhere "series", for sure my favourite videos of yours that you've done. It's like the perfect content for me. Thanks for making this grown man excited to watch another grown man look at satellite images.
you should look more at two things:
1) the economic development of a place, typically huge highways airports and plazas are not found in poorer countries
2) architecture of neighborhoods. soviet blocks are really easy to identify and immediately direct you to a region of the world.
He does number 2 for South American and US cities pretty regularly. American suburbs have a pretty distinctive layout; it's just hard to tell exactly where you are in the country a lot of the time (unless there's an open football stadium).
Radu's alt account?
@@BBBodzio-wk1wb Haha no! There's a lot of Radu's in Romania.
loving my weekly dose of alvin and the chipmunks jake hahah
For the Baku round, there is a massive offshore oil city just to the South. It was a dead giveaway but also just a really cool piece of infrastructure.
Interesting to see that weird blur on the Marseille round. The same area is not blurred on google maps or street view, it’s just a bunch of government buildings. Good work figuring it all out anyway 😄About Vladivostok “Owing to the influence of the Siberian High, winters are much colder than a latitude of 43 degrees should warrant” from wiki
16:15 I think it was totally fine to look at the stadium there. Should not be the first thing to do, but definitely do it before guessing at random. It is kind of lame when it has the city name, but very interesting when it does not.
32:30 "it's not actually ringing any bells" ... I see what you did there
knowing it's Istanbul and hearing Jake say "it's not Europe..." lmao, open that can of worms
I believe out of the four I've played so far, this one was by far the easiest. I got pretty much every city instantly (including Vladivostok), the one that took me the longest was Antananarivo. I should have definitely recognised it though because I've looked at the map before when learning the trekkers and that lake in the city centre is quite distinct. I popped off when my hometown Hamburg showed up, of course that was the easiest one in the set for me ;)
The pure Austrian rage when you asked "could this be Germany?" for Vienna. :D
Marseille is another one of those cities with a really distinctive football stadion, the Stade Velodrome.
Wow, Vladivostok looks so awful from above. Soviet apartments buildings look like some sea containers.
Vladivostok has a temperate climate, but looks like a city from artcic circle.
And looks so hilly from above, much more than you would thought.
Top tier content! Keep it up with the "quizzes" videos 😊😊
I finally got one faster than Jake, all it took was for it to be the city I live in
Same
For the Europe ones just find the old town... there's more info there than in the random outskirts usually.
Great video as always, love this series. I did this set before, as sort of a preparation for this vid haha, i gor 47/50. The ones i missed were Suva, Antananarivo and Tegucigalpa (No idea how i missed that one), some thoughts:
It's really interesting how different our strategies are, for example i don't know jack shit about sports, so stadiums of any kind don't help me at all (i don't know the difference between a cricket or a baseball stadium). I noticed you tend to zoom out more and just look at the city as a whole, while i always zoom in looking for architecture or distinct landmarks (if i don't instantly know the city).
I think one of your weaknesses is not easily differentiating certain architectural styles (for example Soviet architecture is very disctint, could have helped you a lot in the Minsk and Vladivostok rounds). I got Philadeplhia instantly because it's one of the very few US cities that looks disctinct in any way to me, it doesn't have the typical suburb structure with detached houses but rather has rows of connected houses that look very distinct (Baltimore is the same).
Tirana was very very tricky for me, like you mentioned it doesn't look like the rest of Europe. Never in a million years would i have thought of Madagascar. Suva is also never coming to mind, and i have no idea how i missed Tegucigalpa, i think i tried just about every city in Lat Am.
Looking forward to more, having done a little of set 5 i can say it's a massive step up in dificulty.
Just the other day I had a Minsk trekker in front of an info sign that had the map of the city, so I immediately recognized the shape of the river. My 'cold city' guess was Torshavn the entire time but I felt like it was too big.
43:53 that's what a solar panel looks at the right angle
My strengths are clearly in different parts of the world from yours. I immediately recognized most of the European cities. On the other hand, the American ones were much harder for me. I would never have recognized LA or Philadelphia by looking at a stadium. Still I guessed Denver right when I noticed that you briefly scrolled over the mountains.
Really enjoy these vids. More please 👍
Enjoying this content!
I've been waiting to see Istanbul (or any other Turkish city) since the first video of the series and I'm shocked that It wasn't obvious to you in first glance. Like with Bosporus and Golden Horn It has a very distinct geography.
Great content, thanks!
lol i still suck at this game but these vids are so fun
LOVE these videos
It's the first time I think I did better than you aha. I knew what Vladivostok and Marseille look like, Tirana striked me as european and I got Minsk thanks to its rings which reminded me of Moscow.
Good video as always
vladivostok is deceptively cold. it roughly has the same sort of climate as northern minnesota, short muggy summers and long frigid winters
Winter coverage made it looking very northern. However, it's not very cold. It's warmer than Siberian cities. Summer is warm and humid; water is warm enough to swim for 2-3 months.
Love this series but it's IMPOSSIBLE for me to follow when you go back and forth between them :(
honestly the only one I was yelling at the screen at for was Jerusalem
Very interesting!
34:09 "driving on the right" then proceeds to name exclusively left-hand drive countries 💀
I have no idea what side most of those African countries drive on tbh, I just know the right/left divide is somewhere in that area
@@jakelyonsgeo fair enough, it's not the easiest to remember. Btw, the title did not disappoint - can't believe how cold that city appeared to be. I had a look at it on Google satellite, and it looks so warm in comparison lol
So you like guessing cities from above… How about lakes??? 😂