I also like to watch those videos of people just going out for walks in their town but I like being able to choose where to go in streetview.
With how expensive it is to actually go to other countries this is my best bet for cultural enrichment. I’ve done cities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
And once in a while I get to see something neat that I wouldn’t’ve seen on youtube or actually going there. Such as the time I went to a random shopping plaza in miami and turned down an alley to find that alley hadn’t been recorded since 2008 so I got to see a few pictures of that shopping center under construction.
The hardest part of this is doing my best to ignore the “God I wish I lived there” thoughts.
I’m gonna go explore Bhutan now.
I’m better at Timeguessr than at Geoguessr, for some reason.
Yeah, Geoguesssr has some insane meta like “a google car with this color can only be found in $area” or “the antenna of the google car indicates that…”. I think that might be harder on timeguessr.
I’m not completely immune to picking such things up (e.g. the famous “Ghana Tape”), but I try to avoid learning them explicitly - I want to focus on the look, language and landscape of a country and such.
Yeah, using the Google car to determine what country you’re in, feels like cheating and should only be used by speed runners. It’s more fun to determine it from the landscape and signs. It should after all be a game.