GeoGuessrthe Street View guessing game by GeoSpy AI

How to play

1. Look around the panorama. Drag to turn, scroll to zoom, and walk down the road with the arrows. Road markings, license plates, vegetation, the side of the road traffic drives on and the language on signs are all fair evidence.
2. Click the world map to drop your pin. You can move it as often as you like.
3. Submit. You will see how far off you were, what it scored, and where the panorama actually was.
4. After 2 rounds you get a total out of 10,000.

How the game works

Every round opens the same way: a panorama somewhere on Earth, with no name, no coordinates and a clock. What you do with the 3 minutes is yours to decide — stand still and read what is in frame, or walk until you find something worth reading.

How scoring works

A round is worth up to 5,000 points, and the points fall away exponentially with distance rather than in steps: roughly 4,970 at 10 km, about 1,000 at 2,400 km, and close to nothing from the far side of the planet. Anything inside 150 metres is treated as exact, because below that the gap between your click and the camera’s own position is noise. Two rounds make a maximum of 10,000. The arithmetic is done on the server, against an answer the browser has never been sent — which is what makes a forged score impossible rather than merely awkward.

Walking, and why it decides the round

You are not pinned to the spot you land on. Click the arrows along the road, or double-click a point further down it, and the next panorama loads — as far as you care to walk. That matters more than it sounds, because the giveaway is rarely in the first frame. A postcode on a shopfront, a route number on a signpost, a utility pole with a shape particular to one country: those are usually a hundred metres away, and walking is the only way to reach them.

Why there is a daily limit

One game a day, and the reason is the imagery bill rather than a nudge towards a subscription. Every panorama you load — the one you land on and every step you take afterwards — is a metered Google Street View request, and the free monthly allowance behind this game is a few thousand of them. A single link that travels well could empty a month in an afternoon. The limit is what keeps the game standing for whoever arrives tomorrow.

Where the locations come from

The pool is 54 hand-checked city centres rather than random coordinates, so every round has an answer a person could actually reason their way to instead of a container ship in the middle of the Pacific. The panoramas are Google Street View; the world map you drop your pin on is OpenStreetMap data on tiles served by Esri; place names come from GeoNames. The distance between your pin and the real camera is measured across the surface of the sphere — the great-circle distance, not a straight line over a flattened map, which would be wrong by thousands of kilometres near the poles.

What you need to play

A browser, and nothing else. There is no download, no install and no account needed to start. It runs on a phone as well as on a desktop: on a touch screen the map opens as a full-width sheet when you call it, while on a pointer it sits docked in the corner and expands when you reach for it.

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