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Recognize the map and track it, and use the simplest tools to create the most interesting experience of teaching and learning.

Give you a random street view of a place on the world map. Can you guess where it is?

If you are bored or bored staying at home recently, turn on GeoGuessr and you will start an interesting "round-the-world trip" by freely traveling and exploring in real-world maps around the world.

If you don't know what to play when you get together with your friends this holiday season, Monopoly and werewolf killing are no longer your only choice. if you team up to enter GeoGuessr, you can work together, rank competitions, and even have an online geography puzzle "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS".

If you haven't heard of or played this online game called GeoGuessr in the past two years, you may really be Out.

GeoGuessr is not a 3A masterpiece developed by a well-known game company, but a reasoning game developed by Geographic enthusiasts based on Google Maps. Because of its addictive game mode, GeoGuessr has gradually spread word of mouth among players in recent years, especially in the epidemic isolation, and now it has even become a must-have team-building for major technology companies and a teaching helper for geography teachers from all over the world.

| GeoGuessr, the "detective game" in Google reality Map, is actually very simple. It actually gives you a Google Street View so you can guess where you are. Developers divide maps into landmarks, capitals, the world, the United States and other types, but no matter which type of map you choose, the game mode is basically the same.

After the picture is clicked into the map by GeoGuessr, the system will randomly give you a live view of Google Maps with no information other than the street view, the compass and the marked area on the lower right.

But you can move forward in the direction of the arrows shown on the map, view your surroundings 360 degrees, or click on a location on the map to enlarge, as in Google Maps.

Silicon cartography then requires you to guess the location of the map from information on maps such as buildings, road signs, plants, shops, weather, and even pedestrians.

In the logic of the game, you have to first judge which country this is, then guess the city, and then determine the specific location of the city. Once you have a rough answer, you can find this location and select a marker on the zoom map in the lower right corner.

When the placed tag is submitted, GeoGuessr will reveal the real geographic location and rate it based on the distance between your guessed location and the real location, on a scale of 0 to 5000. If the guess result is within 150 meters of the straight line from the correct position, you will get a full score.

Silicon Cartography players will get 5 maps for each game, and the difficulty varies depending on the type of map you choose. What Silicon people find most difficult is the type of world map, because you will be randomly landed at a certain point in a city all over the world. It may be in a desolate and inhabited desert, on a highway without any vehicles, or on an endless seaside.

Then you need to look around and walk around and guess where you are without a clue.

But to make it easier, GeoGuessr will also give you tips for up to three images in the upper left corner as your guess goes on. These tips include celebrities from the place, the national flag, the geographical outline of the region, well-known sports, famous teams, well-known enterprises and so on.

For example, the Spotify logo appears in the prompt in Stockholm, the Nintendo logo appears in the prompt in Osaka, the logo of the Bulls appears in the prompt in Chicago, and the profile picture of Elon Musk appears in the prompt in Pretoria, South Africa, all these can help increase your chances of guessing correctly.

| Geographic enthusiasts' paradise, the Great God challenges the 0.1-second limit map, of course, if you always need to wait for the system prompt to guess correctly, there is no doubt that you will be eliminated in the following competition mode. Therefore, for many geography enthusiasts, it is the hard truth to be Sherlock Holmes on their own.

Although GeoGuessr only has a simple real-world map, it can actually give a wealth of information.

If you land in the city, road signs, billboards, the name of the store, these are great helpers to help you determine your location. For example, it is easy to find place names by reading road signs on the highway. Some roadside billboards also contain photos of local celebrities and city information, and shop signs sometimes have local characteristic names. If the language of this information is Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc., it is also easy to determine which country it is in.

For example, when the Silicon people came across the map of Budapest, they found the word "The best beef in Hungary" in the shop signs on the side of the road, saw and looked up the signs on the highway in the map of Kuala Lumpur, and so on.

But note that you also need to carefully avoid "traps" when viewing these informations. for example, some netizens said that although they saw the big print on the billboard was the enrollment information of American schools, in fact, what was left below was the phone number and address of other countries.

In addition, if there are vehicles or pedestrians around you, they also contain a lot of information. For example, if the vehicle is on the left, it will greatly reduce the scope of the city, and the skin color and clothing of pedestrians are also important clues to help you identify the area.

One might ask, what if it doesn't fall into the urban area? It doesn't matter. Weather, vegetation, topography and landforms are all sources of your clues. For example, palm trees and bananas are likely to be in the tropics, Africa and the Middle East in deserts, and fjords in northern Europe.

Since the release of GeoGuessr, some netizens have been addicted to this geographic guessing game, shuttling through maps every day looking for clues and challenging their limits.

Among them, a TikTok user named GeoRainbolt shocked the public with his ability to read and locate pictures in as little as 0.1 seconds. As a Google Maps enthusiast, GeoRainbolt can basically guess the right location by looking at a black-and-white map or a corner of the map in many cases.

What is the concept of 0.1 second? It may be the time when the page floats in front of you when you turn the book.

What is even more exaggerated is that he has even more advanced games, such as blindfolded to listen to others describe what the map looks like, and can quickly determine the location by looking at the shape of the sky and clouds, the shape of leaves, the appearance of mud on the ground, and almost all of them can guess the right place.

Does that sound incredible? But according to GeoGuessr, all the maps in their game don't have a question bank, and each question is randomly selected from Google Maps. In some GeoRainbolt videos, he also explains the logic of his picture recognition and plays online with other top players around the world.

According to the 23-year-old GeoGuessr master, he discovered GeoGuessr when he was quarantined at home after COVID-19 's outbreak. He was interested in maps since childhood. He spent almost a year at home playing the game, flipping through Google Maps around the world every day.

| the method of play is constantly being expanded, and gadgets are being played for a lot of fun. in fact, it has been 9 years since GeoGuessr was founded. In 2013, Anton Wall é n, a Swedish software engineer who was a geography enthusiast, came up with the idea on a trip across the United States, and then spent months developing the game, mainly using Backbone.js and Google map API.

At the beginning, the whole game interface is very simple, that is, everyone looks at the map on a stand-alone and gets points for location punctuation. However, after the development in recent years, especially the geometric increase in the number of users after the outbreak, GeoGuessr has gradually moved from niche games to public attention, and the ways of playing have become more diverse.

At present, in addition to single-player mode, GeoGuessr has also developed multi-person as well as party and "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" mode. In the "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" mode, ten players will face the same street view map screen, and everyone will judge the exact location by looking for clues. Whoever uses the shortest time and the most accurate positioning will be promoted, otherwise he will be eliminated from the last place until there is only one champion left.

In addition, you can also accumulate points and badges for global rankings, and choose to play 1V1 games against other players. In some schools, in order to increase students' interest in geography, teachers will also ask students to take the GeoGuessr challenge and teach some knowledge of geography, history and culture of the relevant areas.

In recent months, GeoGuessr has become more and more popular on TikTok and Twitch social networks, and it has become a favorite among young people. According to current GeoGuessr records, most of the world's top players are in their early 20s, and the youngest is only 15.

The picture is taken from the Washington Post, and as an online celebrity and master player, 0.1s map recognition master GeoRainbolt often organizes and broadcasts tournaments on Twitch and TikTok, inviting some excellent players to participate, and everyone will share their picture recognition experiences, and the GeoGuessr community is expanding rapidly.

Previously, GeoGuessr has been running for free, but due to the increase in the size of players and the increase in the cost of Google Maps API, each person is only allowed to play for five minutes for free, but you can have unlimited fun for a monthly fee of $2.

In the overall experience, Silicon people feel that this is a very interesting Mini Game that they have played recently. More importantly, GeoGuessr is definitely a family game suitable for family and friend gatherings during the holiday season. Whether adults, children, friends or colleagues, everyone can have fun in this game.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: Silicon Man (ID:guixingren123), author: Juny, Editor: VickyXiao

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