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.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
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”.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.