Yeah honestly.. the only assumption you can make about why it would be under a list of awful maps when the exact address is in view, given that we know the company that uploaded it gave bad coordinates already, is that it's gonna be bad coordinates.. I really just wanted him to click at the same point off the coast of Africa again without even trying to find the spot
@@renerpho If I was him, I had honestly tried to just click the same place in the Atlantic, since finding the right place seemed like a waste of time. Then again, to me finding the exact place always seems like a waste of time xD I'm more of a right-area guesser xD
@@renerpho - I mean maybe not all of their photos have the incorrect location... it seems they probably ARE all wrong after the second one, but yea. They also weren't quite the same location, interestingly. Or even just on either the same latitude or longitude.
Iakwe (hello)! I’m Benedict Yamamura ⬅️😁 and I’m from here “the Marshall Islands”. This Google Street-view photo was taken from Arno Atoll back in 2019, using the 360 camera I loaned from Google. Thanks for picking my photo Geowizard. And thanks Drew Jarrett for showing me this educational RUclips Channel.
For the 3rd round, I noticed that the name of the photographer was the same as the first one so I took a leap of faith and placed it at the same dead spot as the first was. And I was rewarded
I was so damn happy when I actually found the Air Cool Service building, only to rage quit when instead of getting 5000, I got middle of the ocean off the coast of Africa.
@@zynifi As in "This video is the most entertaining video in a while, since your recent stuff sucked" whereas this was meant as "This video is the most entertaining video in a while, because its outstanding."
From Wiki - Schweppes is a beverage brand that originated in the Republic of Geneva and that is sold around the world. It sold the world's first soft drink, bottled soda water, in 1783.
To be fair: . In 1843, Schweppes commercialised Malvern Water at the Holywell Spring in the Malvern Hills, which was to become a favourite of the British Royal Family And did merge with Cadbury’s
The funny thing is that neither of the two rounds are actually at 0°N 0°E. I don't know what happened there, but I guess the mapper excluded maps at "Null Island", and looked for the weirdos that randomly lie 200 km away from it.
My thought is they some how format the the coordinate differently then google maps and when they submit it shortens. Like 35.678°N 63.546°W turned into a 3.5678°N and 6.3546 °W
When you play "The Absolutely Awful Map" and say 'oh this isn't so bad' and then have the balls to play it again, this is the ONLY outcome that makes sense.
"tin shed near fish market" was the main redeeming moment of this video. just when I finished laughing hysterically, I heard "Jamshedpur" and completely lost it again 😂😂
Oh! What a surprise! I have learnt so much from your blender tutorial videos, really surprised to find you in the comments section of a GeoWizard video 😅😅
@@bradmerrell6442 I got the 31 second high score on this map yesterday by memorizing every location. There are at least three misplaced locations not in the middle of the ocean, so even if you'd guess where Geowizards got his you'd get it completely wrong about half of the time.
The moment you mentioned the second image being also from "Anttech", I knew it had to be at the same location. That BTW is near the Zero-Zero point (0 deg Longitude, 0 deg Latitude). Its a common place for geographical objects to end up at, when for some reason the coordinates are missing.
@@mythofechelon It's indeed very *near* 0.000, 0.000 though. So stuff ends up there when the latitude is given in radians instead of degrees or any other mistake that results in small numbers being mistakenly used as lat/lng.
You knew that third round was going to end off the coast of africa when he pointed out it was the same group submitting it. But the joy of building up to that ending was immense.
Those random places off the coast of Africa is where the photosphere is put always if you don't give the proper co-ordinates. It happens to me when I upload photospheres but I make sure to correct them. Also, that video is not one of the worst rated! It was highly entertaining!!
This was a really enjoyable video. I finally beat you, I got 5,470 points. I went for Ghana in the first round because of the british power outlets and got some points there. Well done mate!
The "bad results" come from invalid lat/long data, which results in Google showing the location at 0°N, 0°E at the center of the map. It happens often enough (from various faulty software sources) that the location has been given the tongue-in-cheek name of "Null Island" (there is no land there, but there is a weather buoy).
It might have something to do with incorrect mapping between coordinate systems, which explains the clustering around null island but also not everything in the same spot. Imagine if they are using a grid centered somewhere in india, if google displays those coords as latitude and longitude, you will basically get an india-shaped cluster around null island
Roughest play along ever! I feel your pain. Sucks so much to spend 20 minutes on a round to pin it close and turns out it's marked in the middle of the ocean ugggh
Minute Physics has an intriguing video about 'null island' I'd recommend Tom, and anyone else reading this to check it out! A few of these spots seem to be on, or near to 'null island'. Tl;dr: Many spots are marked at 0 latitude and 0 longitude due to coding issues. (I don't know precisely why the spots here are different from each other, I'd be intrigued if there was a more in depth explanation)
So that same random spot it ends up is sometimes called 'Null island' since its coordinates are 0, 0. It's like the default location for any GPS that returned zero location so you end up plonked at exactly 0 longitude 0 latitude in the Atlantic
Came to say this. Though when he looks at them in google maps it shows the coordinates in the URL and it is close to but not exactly 0. I'm thinking they put the coordinates in with the wrong format or conversion, like google expects a decimal form and they entered a truncated comma form or something.
Oh my, I got the Montevideo round right! What did it for me was the "Bife de Vacío" on the blackboard. I'm from Brazil, so I know that people from Rio Grande do Sul have this name, "vazio", for a specific beef cut they have. So I figured out that Uruguay or Argentina might use that name as well, I just went for Uruguay for the closeness. So it was a matter of tryng to find a public markets, because we have similiar buildings on Brazil with this same architecture, with the same purpose. I got lucky to find the "Mercado Agrícola" tho.
My family are from Argentina and I took a guess at somewhere in Argentina! Insane how similar some neighbour countries can be :) From 'bife de vacio' and 'picada' and even the bread on the table before the meal.
I also got it exactly right! the way I jumped when I stopped focusing on the dude and realized “WAIT I USED TO GO THERE EVERY WEEK” lol but yea the bbq and pilsen are probably the most obvious tells that it is Uruguay. it’s a shame you can’t make out the ice cream flavors from that angle, that parlor sells weird and often local flavors, there’s another pic in google maps that shows them and it’s pretty damning that it IS Uruguay bc it has “Tannat Rosè” (one of the most common wines of the country) and “Chajá” (traditional dessert from Paysandú) as flavors. fwiw the “bife de vacío” does prove right the geoguessr meta of “if cows then ur gay”, except the cows don’t even need to be alive.
Tom I have to say you are something special...watching this episode with nearly anyone else would have been all but torture, yet I was laughing until I was crying throughout most of the video. Well done! Such an entertainer
I just started playing Geoguessr after stumbling upon your channel. I've watched a few other RUclipsrs and all their talk about bollards and poles and Google cars honestly puts me to sleep. But you dear sir, are entertainment gold.
This is still one of my favorite geoguessr videos you’ve ever made. This and the one where you found 12th and Olive in Denver and it ended up being Eugene
It's amazing how little information we need to recognize our own countries. On that second guess, all I needed was a quick glance at the drink and the people to know that was Uruguay
Okay, I'm the Louisiana resident back to help with your pronunciation of Lake Pontchartrain. You are not far off, but us locals pronounce it must quicker. Think like you're quickly saying "punch-a-train" but add an O instead of a U in punch, so its "ponch-a-train". Hope this helps. Love this video, made me laugh several times.
The amount of times you check to see if you're recording makes me wonder how many times you've filmed a video without actually recording it. Also, while this was one of your worst scores, it was definitely one of my favorite GeoGuesser videos. The commentary on the first map was spot on
That first round was brutal. I had basically the same thought process, "English, Jesus and mopeds - feels like Phillipines", placed my marker down, just sat and stared for a bit at the result. On that 3rd round had you gone just a bit more to the right, I think you would have the exact place. There's "Jamshedpur Electric and Refrigeration centre" just there.
Ouch. This round was probably some of the worst luck possible. I made the map with the intention that someone would get the incorrect coordinates maybe once. but the fact that you got both of the incorrect locations is just super unlucky.
Personally, I always gets drawn to the electrical outlets myself. There is only a few different types used in the world, and they aren't too hard to learn. But they do say a lot about where one is, especially if the place has more than 1 type. The first location for an example had a type G plug but also seems to use some other types given the more universal outlets shown, so it is likely a former British colony at the very least. (however, the "correct" place is Null island, the magical place where databases places all its junk. Probably one of the better guesses for this map to be fair....) And the second one is not givning me any clues either. Third is giving so much information to where it actually is that it surely must be Null island again for it to be in this collection. However, the "Null island" ones seems like they might have gotten their location metadata swapped out for something else entirely.
Those first three rounds made me think of a new challenge you can do where you attempt to get 5k and 0 scores in separate games where you play along with yourself. I think it would be pretty interesting to try and either find the exact spot and try to lay the other marker down at the furthest spot possible or when you're not sure of your exact locations just take an educated guess on both. I'd choose a different map though due to the coordinates issue
He literally noticed it was the same company as the first round, knew the map wasn’t going to give you an easy one, and yet still thought the coordinates would be right 🤦♂️
“which is english. what would you do without my commentary? you’d just be clueless, wouldn’t you.” i will forever hold a very special place in my heart for tom the absolute wit wizard
My colleagues and I call that location off the west coast of Africa, 'NULL Island'. We see this location popup occasionally in our Field Apps if co-ords aren't captured correctly. It's a lat and long of 0,0
I was so happy in the first round. It was India, and there were many giveaways (while I do understand that it is almost impossible for Tom): The brands are all very common in India. Tom was right about the moped batteries. These are smaller batteries mostly used in 2-wheelers. - 2:20 - The scooter has a very Indian Plate and back further the guy riding the scooter also seems like a Honda Activa (Very common in India) - 2:39 - The calculator, stamp, the thing behind the stamp is a payments QR Code, the wall sockets are Indian as well - 3:56 - That guy is not Sri Lankan as he is the great cricket Sachin Tendulkar The JC was confusing though as I would have guessed somewhere South because of that. Turns out the location was in Central India - Raipur, Chattisgarh.
You may think this is one of the worst videos you've done. But your commentary here is top shelf. That's why I love you GW, you always make me laugh. Keep up the good work.
One of the rare times I managed to beat you! (But i did live in Montevideo) Fun video! The points that were near Africa are actually on Null Island the location at 0 latitude and 0 longitude so someone forgot to input their data, so much for a local guide! :p
First time I've beat Tom 👀 5367 -- I looked up the wall power sockets on the first one, looks like Type I from Argentina, so I went Cordoba and was equally disappointed on incorrect coordinates. I was also shocked we both chose Barcelona on #2 - it looked coastal with the venting of the roof...
It could be that Anttech info are purposely tagging false geolocations on their images. A few data companies have been sued for location disclosure so quite often alter metadata to show in the centre of a lake, or in this case ocean.
That first point is what we geographers refer to as “Null Island”. It means that the GPS point taken with that photo had zero GPS data and defaulted to coordinates of 0 degrees Longitude and Latitude. Hilarious video, cheers mate!
Did you try moving the decimal in the latitude and longitude to the right one digit on the two Anttech rounds? I bet that'll get you close to the actual location
I can’t believe you were at primavera as well!! I wish me and my mates knew that were all huge fans from Australia. Having a pint with u is on the bucketlist
For the first one the power socket next to the desk could have been an indicator if someone was crazy enough to memorize all the types for each country. But I guess it wouldn't have made any difference lol
The Tin shed address only made me think of Harry Potters address: The cupboard under the Stairs, 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. Loved this one, Tom.
In rounds 1 and 3, the map creator hasn't bothered to put a marker down so it's just defaulted to the centre of the map (in the middle of the Atlantic). So you were probably robbed of about 7,000 points.
I played this round first, before watching the vid, so the anticipation of your reactions made it even funnier. the 2 closest I got were the indoor pumping station, which I roughly remembered from the previous episode and the Argentina one, which I guessed Buenos Aires for. Reason? The Big black round hood in the pic reminded me of Argentinian BBQ place I once visited. I ended up with 8,229 points.
I would be interested to know where the first location was. I was between Philippines and India. Ending up choosing India, only because of the British English spelling of 'Luminous', which made me think it might be India as opposed to Philippines. This is my assumption, maybe Philippines would use the British spelling as well Edit: Kept watching, it was India. I went Goa.
@@AnRuixuan Americans drop the u on every word with 'ou' pronounced in that sort of way, I assumed. So I thought American spelling would be luminos or something. I dunno, not American, just assume that if you're removing the u on those sort of words, might as well do it with all of them.
Definitely not your worst video! It was actually really funny and we played along too, we guessed pretty much the same countries that you did which felt good :D
There actually is a reason why so many locations end up in the gulf of Guinea, it has to do with coordinates. When a data point doesn't have a proper spatial reference (basically, it doesn't define where the 0,0 coordinate is located), most programmes will use the global 0,0 coordinate. And that point is directly south of Greenwich (of GMT fame), on the equator. And that's in the gulf of Guinea.
I just knew after all the hard work with the India one that it would be glitched. I laughed so hard. Thank you for the great content. You are a legend!
Congrats on the New Yorker article Tom! I hope the added publicity doesn't come with more scrutiny of the legality of your Straight Line Missions - they are amazing! Love the Geoguessr content as well - keep it up!
i love your geoguessr videos, i dont mind them at all, i miss them sometimes even when you are doing irl stuff but thb the straight line missions have been some of the best content on youtube, so i dont mind haha
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A clue to look for on indoor photos could be the type of wall power sockets.
I screamed "the power socket"!!!
@@mattdaniel6071 Me too!
helps if the location is marked right!
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the socket looked a lot like type H which is very confusing as these only exist in israel
Nothing quite as heartbreaking as watching him search for Tin Shed Near Fish Market knowing what’s coming
So many shops on Null Island!
I wondered if he really knew it would be at 0,0 again and just wanted to find it for the sake of it
never was a "fuh koff!" more well deserved.
Yep. Especially after he pointed out it was the same company that uploaded the info in the first place. 🤦🏻♂️😂😂
Yeah honestly.. the only assumption you can make about why it would be under a list of awful maps when the exact address is in view, given that we know the company that uploaded it gave bad coordinates already, is that it's gonna be bad coordinates.. I really just wanted him to click at the same point off the coast of Africa again without even trying to find the spot
First round reaction had a very "my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined" energy. Second time it happened was just gold
A masterpiece of foreshadowing. He knew that the photo was uploading by the same company. What did he expect to happen?
@@renerpho If I was him, I had honestly tried to just click the same place in the Atlantic, since finding the right place seemed like a waste of time. Then again, to me finding the exact place always seems like a waste of time xD I'm more of a right-area guesser xD
It looks like it defaulted to the prime meridian, but not really?
@@renerpho - I mean maybe not all of their photos have the incorrect location... it seems they probably ARE all wrong after the second one, but yea.
They also weren't quite the same location, interestingly. Or even just on either the same latitude or longitude.
Looking at a random island in the Pacific and asking: "Who owns that?" Is the most British thing ever 😂
Yeah that was... funny and disappointing at the same time
@@Gwydda u mad cause they won the game of risk?
@@KK----- "u mad" what in the archetypical prepubescent cephalopod
@@Gwydda boo hoo
@@rmullins9368 they clearly did win owning a third of the world lol.
this episode is so funny. Your mood is so uplifting and your commentary is very funny and helpful
Absolutely agreed
Last long very long which is English
@@rawlinanderson6130 that cracked me up.
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@@rawlinanderson6130 What?
Iakwe (hello)! I’m Benedict Yamamura ⬅️😁 and I’m from here “the Marshall Islands”. This Google Street-view photo was taken from Arno Atoll back in 2019, using the 360 camera I loaned from Google. Thanks for picking my photo Geowizard.
And thanks Drew Jarrett for showing me this educational RUclips Channel.
Must have been strange seeing your own photo on here!
Greetings from Australia
lakwe! Nice to hear from someone who actually lived there.
For the 3rd round, I noticed that the name of the photographer was the same as the first one so I took a leap of faith and placed it at the same dead spot as the first was. And I was rewarded
I was begging tom to do the same
Was surprised he didn't do the same
Yup, same ahaha, was laughing so hard when he didn't :D
Same - I also figured it wouldn't be in the awful maps category if it straight up gave you the address
Lol I felt a little bad for Tom he was so happy to think he found it.
I was so damn happy when I actually found the Air Cool Service building, only to rage quit when instead of getting 5000, I got middle of the ocean off the coast of Africa.
Hahaha, now that would have been great to have recorded!
Probably the most entertaining video you've made in a while and I don't mean that as an insult. Quality.
Why would that be an insult lmao
@@zynifi I agree with your reply. I don’t mean that as an insult though.
@@zynifi As in "This video is the most entertaining video in a while, since your recent stuff sucked" whereas this was meant as "This video is the most entertaining video in a while, because its outstanding."
Schweppes is the least British sounding brand name ever haha.
😂😂
From Wiki - Schweppes is a beverage brand that originated in the Republic of Geneva and that is sold around the world. It sold the world's first soft drink, bottled soda water, in 1783.
@@unclegreybeard3969 and somehow I've never heard of it
To be fair:
. In 1843, Schweppes commercialised Malvern Water at the Holywell Spring in the Malvern Hills, which was to become a favourite of the British Royal Family
And did merge with Cadbury’s
@@HazewinDog really? It's pretty popular here in Italy, I thought it was a worldwide beverage lmao
I was shocked he didn’t immediately go for 0,0 when he saw Antec Info on the third round haha.
The funny thing is that neither of the two rounds are actually at 0°N 0°E. I don't know what happened there, but I guess the mapper excluded maps at "Null Island", and looked for the weirdos that randomly lie 200 km away from it.
exactly what I would have done.
0,0 Yh
My thought is they some how format the the coordinate differently then google maps and when they submit it shortens. Like 35.678°N 63.546°W turned into a 3.5678°N and 6.3546 °W
@@user-white007 thats gotta be the reason, similar to how all the date time bugs are being caused by locale issues
When you play "The Absolutely Awful Map" and say 'oh this isn't so bad' and then have the balls to play it again, this is the ONLY outcome that makes sense.
"tin shed near fish market" was the main redeeming moment of this video. just when I finished laughing hysterically, I heard "Jamshedpur" and completely lost it again 😂😂
Yeah.... cracked me up as well
Followed by him still trying to find the actual place even though it was always going to be in the middle of the ocean :')
that just was hilarious lmao
🤣🤣🤣
Personal favourite was the diagonal road called diagonal rd
After the first round I googled the company that took the picture. They're based in West Bengal, India.
And I hope their general performance as shown in this video means they go out of business! 😂
Bold of you to trust that their location is where they say it is
tons of christians in Eastern India, Bengal, Mizoram, etc.
Fake news. They actually operate under the ocean 400 miles off the coast of Ghana.
Oh! What a surprise! I have learnt so much from your blender tutorial videos, really surprised to find you in the comments section of a GeoWizard video 😅😅
This map might actually be decent if they cut out the ones with incorrect coordinates
I think it could be fun to try to predict which ones you need to guess out in the ocean
@@bradmerrell6442 I got the 31 second high score on this map yesterday by memorizing every location. There are at least three misplaced locations not in the middle of the ocean, so even if you'd guess where Geowizards got his you'd get it completely wrong about half of the time.
remind me again the name of the map
@@ultimatewierdness how many locations are there in total?
@@somebodyhere3160 76, it says on the page.
The moment you mentioned the second image being also from "Anttech", I knew it had to be at the same location. That BTW is near the Zero-Zero point (0 deg Longitude, 0 deg Latitude). Its a common place for geographical objects to end up at, when for some reason the coordinates are missing.
It's not, though, is it? The end shows that they're not in the same location.
@@mythofechelon It's indeed very *near* 0.000, 0.000 though. So stuff ends up there when the latitude is given in radians instead of degrees or any other mistake that results in small numbers being mistakenly used as lat/lng.
You knew that third round was going to end off the coast of africa when he pointed out it was the same group submitting it. But the joy of building up to that ending was immense.
Those random places off the coast of Africa is where the photosphere is put always if you don't give the proper co-ordinates. It happens to me when I upload photospheres but I make sure to correct them. Also, that video is not one of the worst rated! It was highly entertaining!!
Not your worst Video at all, thoroughly enjoyed the hot mess. Saw the result of round three coming from a mile off though haha
Haha this comment could be read as a savage insult… “Nah, mate, your other videos are FAR worse than this one!” :)
@@truthsmiles lol didn't intend it that way but for sure. "If you think this is bad, you should see his other videos..."
This was a really enjoyable video. I finally beat you, I got 5,470 points. I went for Ghana in the first round because of the british power outlets and got some points there. Well done mate!
you know the video is gonna be lit when tom says: “are we recording?”
I've literally never seen a video where he wasn't recording. I don't know why he's always so worried!
(Yes I'm joking)
@@Mike_Dubayou haha
Hahah 😐
Was surprised by the early “Are we recording”
I want to see all of the content where the answer was “no”.
Not gonna lie, "Tin Shed, Near Fish Market" had me rolling
The "bad results" come from invalid lat/long data, which results in Google showing the location at 0°N, 0°E at the center of the map. It happens often enough (from various faulty software sources) that the location has been given the tongue-in-cheek name of "Null Island" (there is no land there, but there is a weather buoy).
Yeah but they’re in different spots?
@@blakenewall Exactly, and neither of them is exactly at Null Island.
This map is devious. If you get 5 rounds with all wrong coordinates, even clicking on Null Island five times won't get you far above 20,000 points.
It might have something to do with incorrect mapping between coordinate systems, which explains the clustering around null island but also not everything in the same spot. Imagine if they are using a grid centered somewhere in india, if google displays those coords as latitude and longitude, you will basically get an india-shaped cluster around null island
@@blakenewall They are both *close* to 0°N, 0°E so maybe they put a bad decimal place or something like that?
Roughest play along ever! I feel your pain. Sucks so much to spend 20 minutes on a round to pin it close and turns out it's marked in the middle of the ocean ugggh
So - when you know that photographer doesn't tag their images with lat/long, you should always place the marker at Null Island.
Minute Physics has an intriguing video about 'null island' I'd recommend Tom, and anyone else reading this to check it out! A few of these spots seem to be on, or near to 'null island'.
Tl;dr: Many spots are marked at 0 latitude and 0 longitude due to coding issues.
(I don't know precisely why the spots here are different from each other, I'd be intrigued if there was a more in depth explanation)
Probably decimal point problem... Like they did a few minutes away from null island isntead of degrees
@@TrimutiusToo Ooh, interesting. Yep that's a nice, plausible theory, I can see how that mistake could be made.
@@TrimutiusToo doesnt explain why theyre south of the equator though, which would require a negative latitude value.
So that same random spot it ends up is sometimes called 'Null island' since its coordinates are 0, 0. It's like the default location for any GPS that returned zero location so you end up plonked at exactly 0 longitude 0 latitude in the Atlantic
Came to say this. Though when he looks at them in google maps it shows the coordinates in the URL and it is close to but not exactly 0. I'm thinking they put the coordinates in with the wrong format or conversion, like google expects a decimal form and they entered a truncated comma form or something.
Or the wrong map projection!
That isn't at 0,0 though, you can clearly see on the map that the spot is south of the equator
@@AliceJaimie This too, which is why often the places aren't exactly 0, 0 but offset on a wrong projection as you said
but they are not in the same location and both south of the equator. So not quite that either.
Amaron has offices in the Philippines. The thought that you were right lasts long, really long.
Tom, you're so unintentionally funny sometimes, it makes me laugh so hard. Love your videos.
Oh my, I got the Montevideo round right!
What did it for me was the "Bife de Vacío" on the blackboard. I'm from Brazil, so I know that people from Rio Grande do Sul have this name, "vazio", for a specific beef cut they have. So I figured out that Uruguay or Argentina might use that name as well, I just went for Uruguay for the closeness. So it was a matter of tryng to find a public markets, because we have similiar buildings on Brazil with this same architecture, with the same purpose. I got lucky to find the "Mercado Agrícola" tho.
My family are from Argentina and I took a guess at somewhere in Argentina! Insane how similar some neighbour countries can be :) From 'bife de vacio' and 'picada' and even the bread on the table before the meal.
I also got it exactly right! the way I jumped when I stopped focusing on the dude and realized “WAIT I USED TO GO THERE EVERY WEEK” lol but yea the bbq and pilsen are probably the most obvious tells that it is Uruguay. it’s a shame you can’t make out the ice cream flavors from that angle, that parlor sells weird and often local flavors, there’s another pic in google maps that shows them and it’s pretty damning that it IS Uruguay bc it has “Tannat Rosè” (one of the most common wines of the country) and “Chajá” (traditional dessert from Paysandú) as flavors.
fwiw the “bife de vacío” does prove right the geoguessr meta of “if cows then ur gay”, except the cows don’t even need to be alive.
Those kinda addresses are very common in India, "Tin Shed, Near Fish Market" would be considered a "landmark" and useful for navigation.
Tom I have to say you are something special...watching this episode with nearly anyone else would have been all but torture, yet I was laughing until I was crying throughout most of the video. Well done! Such an entertainer
Maybe the coordinates are spot on and there’s an underwater city
did we stumble upon atlantis..?
@@ecMonify I think that’s what has happened and since Tom didn’t realise I’m claiming full discovery rights
It’s where the equator meets the prime meridian.
@@furlz cool story theres also underwater city there
I just started playing Geoguessr after stumbling upon your channel. I've watched a few other RUclipsrs and all their talk about bollards and poles and Google cars honestly puts me to sleep. But you dear sir, are entertainment gold.
I played the map before watching, and the anticipation during 15:34 is getting too much for me to handle.
This is still one of my favorite geoguessr videos you’ve ever made. This and the one where you found 12th and Olive in Denver and it ended up being Eugene
It's amazing how little information we need to recognize our own countries. On that second guess, all I needed was a quick glance at the drink and the people to know that was Uruguay
What was that drink? I automatically assumed Argentina.
@@kcg285 I also thought it was Argentina since everything in that picture just hit right at home. Also, they sell Schweepers here too.
The Pilsen beer stickers gave it away for me. Those only sell in Uruguay.
@Nitsugalego - 😂
ruclips.net/video/c5CQgsFJm0c/видео.html
I don't know exactly why, but I imediately thought it could be Argentina near Buenos Aires or perhaps Uruguay.
The tin shed near the fish market down the road from the jam shed 🤣
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Ok, this has been the best episode ever! I’m dying laughing at the excellent commentary and the mind blowing guesses!🤣🇨🇦
He's so funny he's got such a dead sense of humour i love it hed be a good standup if he could come up with 30 mins of material
My man, your videos are getting better and better! So enjoyable. Get in!!
We love watching you play GeoGuessr games! Best entertainment on the interwebs!
"New filters out this evening! This one is my favourite. Nice job team!"
„Interwebs“
Your videos are getting me through a terrible heartbreak. Thank you Tom
I hope you've made it through okay, Charlie.
OMG, TWO GeoGuesser videos in a week from Tom!?!? I’m stoked 🤘😻
Okay, I'm the Louisiana resident back to help with your pronunciation of Lake Pontchartrain. You are not far off, but us locals pronounce it must quicker. Think like you're quickly saying "punch-a-train" but add an O instead of a U in punch, so its "ponch-a-train". Hope this helps. Love this video, made me laugh several times.
Early gang! Always pleasure to see your videos, Tom!
The amount of times you check to see if you're recording makes me wonder how many times you've filmed a video without actually recording it.
Also, while this was one of your worst scores, it was definitely one of my favorite GeoGuesser videos. The commentary on the first map was spot on
That first round was brutal. I had basically the same thought process, "English, Jesus and mopeds - feels like Phillipines", placed my marker down, just sat and stared for a bit at the result.
On that 3rd round had you gone just a bit more to the right, I think you would have the exact place. There's "Jamshedpur Electric and Refrigeration centre" just there.
Not Bermuda?
Ouch. This round was probably some of the worst luck possible. I made the map with the intention that someone would get the incorrect coordinates maybe once. but the fact that you got both of the incorrect locations is just super unlucky.
Personally, I always gets drawn to the electrical outlets myself.
There is only a few different types used in the world, and they aren't too hard to learn. But they do say a lot about where one is, especially if the place has more than 1 type.
The first location for an example had a type G plug but also seems to use some other types given the more universal outlets shown, so it is likely a former British colony at the very least. (however, the "correct" place is Null island, the magical place where databases places all its junk. Probably one of the better guesses for this map to be fair....)
And the second one is not givning me any clues either.
Third is giving so much information to where it actually is that it surely must be Null island again for it to be in this collection.
However, the "Null island" ones seems like they might have gotten their location metadata swapped out for something else entirely.
cringe
@@556WalkemdownTorrents - Grow up, there's nothing cringe about an expert knowledge in absolutely anything!
@G social situations aren't my forte so forgive me but how is this cringe? Or is this a joke? Sarcasm?
The way you said “not just long, REALLY Long mate.” I’ve been laughing for 15 minutes. God that was good
Those first three rounds made me think of a new challenge you can do where you attempt to get 5k and 0 scores in separate games where you play along with yourself. I think it would be pretty interesting to try and either find the exact spot and try to lay the other marker down at the furthest spot possible or when you're not sure of your exact locations just take an educated guess on both. I'd choose a different map though due to the coordinates issue
hmm i think i remember watching a video where he tried to get as close to 0 as possible
He literally noticed it was the same company as the first round, knew the map wasn’t going to give you an easy one, and yet still thought the coordinates would be right 🤦♂️
In the first location, the electrical outlets are also a good clue, as the plugs are UK standard, pointing to a former British colony
“which is english. what would you do without my commentary? you’d just be clueless, wouldn’t you.” i will forever hold a very special place in my heart for tom the absolute wit wizard
The first round was JD Enterprises, KK Rd, Moudhapara, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492001, India.
My colleagues and I call that location off the west coast of Africa, 'NULL Island'. We see this location popup occasionally in our Field Apps if co-ords aren't captured correctly. It's a lat and long of 0,0
I can't believe GeoWizard hasn't heard of "Null Island"
True, thats a "geography fun fact" that even an absolute noob Like me Heard about
IIRC 0,0 coordinates are in that area of the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. Comes up due to default values sometimes.
Bro, "tin shed, near the fish market" was the funniest thing I've seen for weeks.
I was so happy in the first round. It was India, and there were many giveaways (while I do understand that it is almost impossible for Tom):
The brands are all very common in India. Tom was right about the moped batteries. These are smaller batteries mostly used in 2-wheelers.
- 2:20 - The scooter has a very Indian Plate and back further the guy riding the scooter also seems like a Honda Activa (Very common in India)
- 2:39 - The calculator, stamp, the thing behind the stamp is a payments QR Code, the wall sockets are Indian as well
- 3:56 - That guy is not Sri Lankan as he is the great cricket Sachin Tendulkar
The JC was confusing though as I would have guessed somewhere South because of that. Turns out the location was in Central India - Raipur, Chattisgarh.
That intro though 😂
Had a really rough year your videos have helped me relax and get through at my lowest times, appreciate your work Tom!
As soon as you pointed out it was Antech Info again... I was so surprised you didn't just wang you guess in the Atlantic ocean!
You may think this is one of the worst videos you've done. But your commentary here is top shelf. That's why I love you GW, you always make me laugh. Keep up the good work.
Love how he's singing I am the walrus in the beginning. A man of class
One of the rare times I managed to beat you! (But i did live in Montevideo) Fun video! The points that were near Africa are actually on Null Island the location at 0 latitude and 0 longitude so someone forgot to input their data, so much for a local guide! :p
This is probably the hardest I've laughed at any of his videos. Amazing
your round 2 was spot on. It was the map that was wrong. When you zoomed in on barcelona, you can see a craft beer bar on the map at 11:28
With this map, as long as you're on the same planet, you win.
Not gonna lie, this might be my favourite video of yours yet. Just kept giving, I laughed so much... cheers Tom
You should do a mission where you’re trying to navigate through the confusing stockholm archipelago. It’s beautiful!
Glad you didn't re-make the video, I found it really funny and shared in your dispair
The second guy Bertrand Pierre Lefaux has a youtube channel with this exact place he was at featuring in a video XD
Actually one of my favorite vids. The address commentary has me rolling!
Can you play with an eye tracker so we can watch what you're picking up on while you play
He's definitely looking at everything, unless its a speed mode/time limit. That would be interesting to see.
I love how the air-conditioning sales shop had an absolutely busted air-con in the window.
First time I've beat Tom 👀 5367 -- I looked up the wall power sockets on the first one, looks like Type I from Argentina, so I went Cordoba and was equally disappointed on incorrect coordinates. I was also shocked we both chose Barcelona on #2 - it looked coastal with the venting of the roof...
It could be that Anttech info are purposely tagging false geolocations on their images. A few data companies have been sued for location disclosure so quite often alter metadata to show in the centre of a lake, or in this case ocean.
That first point is what we geographers refer to as “Null Island”. It means that the GPS point taken with that photo had zero GPS data and defaulted to coordinates of 0 degrees Longitude and Latitude. Hilarious video, cheers mate!
I love your calm demeanor. I would've thrown my mouse across the room on that first round. haha
Did you try moving the decimal in the latitude and longitude to the right one digit on the two Anttech rounds? I bet that'll get you close to the actual location
it wont. theyre south of the equator, so they have a negative latitude value. Wheras india has a positive one.
I can’t believe you were at primavera as well!! I wish me and my mates knew that were all huge fans from Australia.
Having a pint with u is on the bucketlist
This may have been one of the *best* GG videos you've ever done. I laughed playing along then laughed harder at your results!
For the first one the power socket next to the desk could have been an indicator if someone was crazy enough to memorize all the types for each country. But I guess it wouldn't have made any difference lol
The Tin shed address only made me think of Harry Potters address: The cupboard under the Stairs, 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. Loved this one, Tom.
In rounds 1 and 3, the map creator hasn't bothered to put a marker down so it's just defaulted to the centre of the map (in the middle of the Atlantic). So you were probably robbed of about 7,000 points.
Good spot
That's the Atlantic fella, on the Greenwich mean time line on the equator
The map creator chose it because the coordinates were wrong. Thats the point
I played this round first, before watching the vid, so the anticipation of your reactions made it even funnier. the 2 closest I got were the indoor pumping station, which I roughly remembered from the previous episode and the Argentina one, which I guessed Buenos Aires for. Reason? The Big black round hood in the pic reminded me of Argentinian BBQ place I once visited. I ended up with 8,229 points.
Tom, you should go on The Voice. I think you have got what it takes. Wow!
The views you get here are all for you as an entertainer, loved it and you should feel loved!
I would be interested to know where the first location was. I was between Philippines and India.
Ending up choosing India, only because of the British English spelling of 'Luminous', which made me think it might be India as opposed to Philippines. This is my assumption, maybe Philippines would use the British spelling as well
Edit: Kept watching, it was India. I went Goa.
Do Brits and Americans spell "luminous" differently? I'm American and have only ever seen it spelled "luminous"
@@AnRuixuan Americans drop the u on every word with 'ou' pronounced in that sort of way, I assumed. So I thought American spelling would be luminos or something. I dunno, not American, just assume that if you're removing the u on those sort of words, might as well do it with all of them.
@@rad2gnarly9 I'll know for future, not Indian though, so wouldn't have known 😅
@@bibblybopbops441 As an American we do use words like poisonous. The English language is inconsistent.
@@bibblybopbops441 Americans mostly drop the u on words ending in "our" not "ous"
Definitely not your worst video! It was actually really funny and we played along too, we guessed pretty much the same countries that you did which felt good :D
There actually is a reason why so many locations end up in the gulf of Guinea, it has to do with coordinates.
When a data point doesn't have a proper spatial reference (basically, it doesn't define where the 0,0 coordinate is located), most programmes will use the global 0,0 coordinate. And that point is directly south of Greenwich (of GMT fame), on the equator. And that's in the gulf of Guinea.
I just knew after all the hard work with the India one that it would be glitched. I laughed so hard. Thank you for the great content. You are a legend!
Oh my god that was hilarious ♥️ This map combined with you is incredible
So disapointing ! It really looked like a good map from the first video
Congrats on the New Yorker article Tom! I hope the added publicity doesn't come with more scrutiny of the legality of your Straight Line Missions - they are amazing! Love the Geoguessr content as well - keep it up!
One of the best videos you have ever made. Rarely has a map so utterly defeated you.
i love your geoguessr videos, i dont mind them at all, i miss them sometimes even when you are doing irl stuff
but thb the straight line missions have been some of the best content on youtube, so i dont mind haha
I cant stop laughing about the Tin Shed address. That absolutely killed me.
You're my favorite youtube channel man.keep up the good work