Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
I just assume they’re super lucky. Or that they play so much, they recognize when it shows them the same picture because it doesn’t have an infinite set of images.
Like the other guy said, it’s street view.
With that said, road patterns are a solid chunk of what the really good players are looking for/at. There’s definitely more to it than that, but because of the nature of the game there’s almost literally always a road in view.
My guess is that some memorization exists, check the geoguesser grand finals, there was one play where both players marked the exact same spot with absolutely no clues another that “maybe Mongolia”.
There’s definitely memorization, but there’s just a ton of tricks that aren’t explicitly memorizing the images themselves.
They can sometimes narrow down the area based on the car that’s taking the images, or how wide the lens is. Things like that. If they see a red toyota corolla is the car taking the photos- which they can tell based on the mirrors appearing- they know it’s specifically mainland malaysia.
Very small context based clues a lot of the time.
It has a practically infinite set of images. Seriously, I’ve seen people do geoguesser and get nothing but back roads in the middle of basically Anywhere, Earth; I’ve seen people get stuck inside malls, go into caves, walk down random-ass rabbit trails in the middle of a forest surrounded by miles of fucking nothing (I wish I could remember what video I saw that in, it was fucking insane). Geoguesser pulls from the full catalog of Google Street view images, and there are a lot of street view images.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They use Google street view, so it’s a ton.