A Few (Tongue in Cheek) Things I've learned from GeoGuessr
SnakMaps and Atlases
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1bookblotter
Australia is made of sand and has no inhabitants.
There are a lot of evergreen trees and few people in northern Scandinavia.
Every thing lovely in Japan is not on the Japanese northern island of Hokkaido. Corollary; Japan, although it isn't very large in area, can give fits since it's so long.
Rural North Dakota street names are boring, but practical. 44th Street, 45th Street... (Actually, on the far south side of Chicago the east-west streets are consecutively numbered and the north-south streets are alphabetically lettered - who needs GPS? I lived for a time on Avenue L, just north of 104th Street.)
All apartment buildings in Russia are identical, thereby saving millions of rubles on architect's fees.
Many countries don't believe in road identification signs because everyone who lives there knows where everything is located.
Geoguessr moves the starting point on a round just as soon as you start wandering and searching. Cheaters!
If you Google search the name of a certain airport hotel in Incheon, South Korea, their ads will haunt your email page until the day you die.
There are a lot of evergreen trees and few people in northern Scandinavia.
Every thing lovely in Japan is not on the Japanese northern island of Hokkaido. Corollary; Japan, although it isn't very large in area, can give fits since it's so long.
Rural North Dakota street names are boring, but practical. 44th Street, 45th Street... (Actually, on the far south side of Chicago the east-west streets are consecutively numbered and the north-south streets are alphabetically lettered - who needs GPS? I lived for a time on Avenue L, just north of 104th Street.)
All apartment buildings in Russia are identical, thereby saving millions of rubles on architect's fees.
Many countries don't believe in road identification signs because everyone who lives there knows where everything is located.
Geoguessr moves the starting point on a round just as soon as you start wandering and searching. Cheaters!
If you Google search the name of a certain airport hotel in Incheon, South Korea, their ads will haunt your email page until the day you die.
2thorold
- The United States is a large, agricultural region somewhere to the south of Canada. It contains no appreciable urban areas, except for a few seaside resorts.
- Canada is a large, agricultural region somewhere to the north of the United States. It contains no appreciable urban areas at all, except where they speak French.
- South Africa and Australia are fully interchangeable with each other, as are France and Spain
- There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that Germany exists
- Cities in the former USSR all consist of a bridge with a suburb on both sides of it. Possibly the same bridge.
- Canada is a large, agricultural region somewhere to the north of the United States. It contains no appreciable urban areas at all, except where they speak French.
- South Africa and Australia are fully interchangeable with each other, as are France and Spain
- There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that Germany exists
- Cities in the former USSR all consist of a bridge with a suburb on both sides of it. Possibly the same bridge.
3aulsmith
- Suburbia is a myth. Large areas of tract housing surrounded by beltways into urban areas do not exist on any continent.
- You can distinguish latitude by the height of pine trees, except when it is indicating altitude
- Areas near water are always charming and touristy never industrial. (I am starting to suspect that industry exists only in South America and central Russia, but that has yet to be confirmed.
- Alaska is not covered with snow
- If you've seen one part of the Appalachians, you've seen them all (or maybe, if you grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians, most of the east coast of North America will look like home.)
- You can distinguish latitude by the height of pine trees, except when it is indicating altitude
- Areas near water are always charming and touristy never industrial. (I am starting to suspect that industry exists only in South America and central Russia, but that has yet to be confirmed.
- Alaska is not covered with snow
- If you've seen one part of the Appalachians, you've seen them all (or maybe, if you grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians, most of the east coast of North America will look like home.)
4bookblotter
>3 aulsmith: Re: "Alaska is not covered with snow."
That's because the Google Street View photography for Alaska is only done on the northern hemisphere summer solstice, generally June 21. If it was done on other dates, all you would see would be snow. Or a big white bear... With sharp teeth...
That's because the Google Street View photography for Alaska is only done on the northern hemisphere summer solstice, generally June 21. If it was done on other dates, all you would see would be snow. Or a big white bear... With sharp teeth...
