@@theflyingspaniard6881 I 100% thought he was joking, especially with that add-on. Just a classic deadpan faulty statement for a laugh. But nope, turned out it was just honeymoon brain.
I have come to have great respect for Tom's phenomenal geographical knowledge, so when he mentioned the border between Spain and Mexico, I had a massive existential crisis and suddenly doubted everything I thought I knew.
My guess for the offset for the location on the border between China and Macau would be whats described in the wikipedia article "Restrictions on geographic data in China" under section "GPS shift problem"
If you overlay the satellite image and the street map on google maps you'll see that the pinned location is correct but the street map on the chinese site is shifted to the east by about 500m and changed abit
No it's not, everything else lined up except for the shore line. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken.
9:49 The questions "Which countries have a common neighbor" with "Norway & North Korea" as one of the options was in fact years ago on the German "Who wants to be a millionaire?"!
@@Gameboygenius I just googled it: On May 16th 2011, question 13 (125000 €) Welche beiden Staaten haben ein gemeinsames Nachbarland ? A: Nordkorea & Norwegen B: Venezuela & Portugal C: Somalia & Israel D: Indonesien & Griechenland
It really isn't all that insane. The location was chosen to be where the border drops down from the river. If you were committed to that part of Norway, that's where you'd likely look first if you were to try scanning all along the river. If anything it was a well chosen location where the challenge is finding the right general location rather than tedious pinpointing.
Actually, *there **_is_** a border between Spain and Mexico.* It's also across a body of water (same as that part of the border with Portugal), just a little bit wider than the Guadiana river. I believe it's called the "Atlantic" or something like that.
If you account for exclusive economic zones, then travel from Spain to Mexico without encroaching on other countries would have to go all the way around South America to the Pacific side.
@@stephenbeck7222 - Well, as long as you don't fish or drill for oil near Cuba, you should be covered by Freedom of Navigation even if you go the "short" way.
I am from Luxembourg and I sometimes drive down this road that goes to Arlon. My first thought was that it looked so like home, and once I spotted the road to Arlon, I knew I was right. It is always so nice to see your home region on Geoguessr
It's always pretty easy to find Luxembourg because of the black roofs. There's nowhere else (that I've seen) in the world with so many black roofs except in Luxembourg and 50km away from the border.
@@isthatrubble Tbh, from what I can see on streetview, it just looks like a pile of left over turf from when they built that building next to it. Some plants on it, but other than that, I don‘t think it serves a particular purpose.
"The border between Mexico and Spain" -GeoWizard You are so awesome dude. You inspired me to get into geography and now I am pretty good at it myself. Keep up the work dude.
In round 4, the correct location of the border checkpoint is "Posto Fronteiriço das Portas do Cerco" which is on the Macau side. The Chinese border checkpoint is "Gong Bei Kou An" but it is misrepresented because in China accurate map data is a state secret.
No it's not, everything else lined up except for the shore line, roads, wharfs, etc all lined up perfectly. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken. The map data is more recent.
@@pepapu7112 No, the map data is just off, you can check it for yourself on google maps when you turn on satelite view. Here is a screnshot of what it looks like i.imgur.com/M32j4Jt.png
How many of those 14 countries were Russia I wonder. You'd still have to cross Russia once to get from Finland to Estonia. Then depending on whether you allow yourself to pass a bridge in Istanbul you'd need to cross it again from Ukraine to Georgia if you were doing a min Russia% run.
Oddly enough my challenge link did the street view and not the satellite view. I must have missed a step, but it was still tons of fun! It was probably a similar difficulty, but in a different kind of way. Great video!
Me too. I had to go into the unity script (colored buttons on the right) and switch it to satellite, and turn off weather as it was showing rain(?) on the Norway round. I'm not very familiar with those settings. Don't know if they can deliberately override game settings, or it it was a glitch.
The pin on the Macau side was right. You can even see the little Park next to the gig residential buildings. The problem is that the satellite footage on the Chinese side is getting warped by Chinas "anti-mapping" policy. Never noticed that is so extreme but you can even see the Chinese border control just sitting in the milde of nowhere.
Everything else lined up except for the shore line. Roads, wharfs, etc all lined up perfectly. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken. The map data is more recent.
the gps shift is most extreme on the macao and hong kong borders, this is because macao and hong kong allow normal gps mapping and zhuhai and shenzhen don't, so you have some lines on the map where parts are corrected and others aren't, leading to bigger issues than having everything in gps or being in mainland china and viewing everything warped and corrected.
I go to play along, quite enjoying these, only my satellite view plugin has decided to stop working, so I'm on street view. Anyway the first one pops up and I'm thinking European, hmm yes, maybe greek, I spot the bridge, maybe some of those countries around there, turkey, croatia maybe, spend ages looking for the river, give up and guess roughly. Obviously I'm miles out. Then I go to watch the video and pretty much the first words out of your mouth 'Looks like Spain' great. Thanks for that Tom haha. Next one, again on street view, I spot the signs saying we're entering Finland, I can't see a river anywhere, the road is not the border, I see the road number as well. I have a look around Norway/Finland but can't spot anything that looks like it, there's no river. So I go all down the Russia/Finland border, find the road name, but it doesn't cross into Russia. I find somewhere where a road does, at the right angle, I think I've got it, place my marker... miles away. It is Norway. Then I open the video to watch Tom, pretty much the first words out of your mouth again 'This looks like Norway'. Cool. Thanks again Tom! I am dreadful.
The round where you lost your perfect score is due to a difference between the actual satelite locations and the mapping data which is intentionally distorted by the Chinese government for national security reasons.
China uses its own satellite array, which is different from the GPS one. The location differences aren't intentional perse, just a result of the different satellite arrays used.
@@jellevm Nope, in this specific case he's correct. China purposely distorts the map data and its alignment by a couple of 100 metres for security issues aka Chinese paranoia. I think wendover did a video on that once.
Actually I don't think that's what happened here. (at least, not entirely). If you ignore the water and at the road layout, I think the marker was close to being correct. The problem is that the water is not drawn on correctly (or something was changed between the photo and the map being drawn)
The game was right. The earthworks in that area have moved the sea line way toward east over the past 20 years. The sat and the map repesented each one a different moment in time. Count the roads and the access and exit lanes and youll'see what I mean.
You're looking at my home there for a second. On the Macau - China border. So Macau is basically the 2 islands, second, southern one built of Casinos and hotels. North one is the old Portugese settlment in a nutshell. I live on the China side on the left, west side of the river. I should sent you a photo. But i didn't realise it till you actually said "could be hong kong". Which is odd because I look at the maps almost every day. I actually thought instantly that is was Barca or somewhere in the middle east. Quite a mash up.
You definitely got screwed on the China Macau one, but you DID click to the east of the correct location - If you had nailed it, it probably would have only been off by one point. The marshy area that juts into the mainland looks like water on the satellite image, but is indicated as solid land on the map.
Amazing as always, Tom 👏 I recognized the Portuguese/Spanish border right away, the scattered trees are so characteristic of the region. I've actually been searching for a good line starting by the Guardiana river border (a line that I will never try to walk). Anyways, good to know I'm Mexican now!
Despite the Spain/Mexico comment, I’m amazed at your instincts for those borders as I was whole continents off in my guesses. So excited for lots more GeoGussr content to come and belated congrats on the wedding!
Yeah, I got mine in street view. Didn't realize I was playing incorrectly until after I finished playing because I clicked on the video for the link, immediately closed the video, then came back when I was done playing & only just now realized it was supposed to be a bird's eye view game.
16:24 tl;dr Combining Macau’s GPS data and China’s obfuscated GPS data at the border notoriously breaks online maps. Wikipedia: Restrictions on geographic data in China (Hong Kong and Macau) Under Chinese law, the use of geographic information in the People’s Republic of China is restricted. Under One Country Two Systems, legislation in mainland China does not apply in Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions, and there are no similar restrictions in the SARs. Therefore, the GPS shift problem does not apply. However, at the border between the SARs and mainland China, the data shown by online maps are broken where the shifted data and correct data overlap.
Fantastic job! A good thing to keep in mind for this map is that borders usually run either across roads or along rivers. There’s also usually a clear tree line/ farmers field alongside it.
Take care as well Tom! So much love was felt in that ending of a video, like I like your videos so much man :) And it shows that you really care for your viewers :) Cheers!
You made the comment about Norway/North Korea being a pub quiz question that probably won't ever come up but we've had, "What 2 countries touch Russia and start with the same 3 letter before?" And my team didn't believe me that both touched Russia lol.
I'm kinda proud of myself for getting the USA/Canada border location almost immediately. I don't even really know why it was so obvious to me, but I saw the border and thought "that is the most Maine-looking border I've seen in my life" and went with it lol.
@@evergreenappreciator I'm about as far away from the state of Maine as a continuous US American can be, but I'm very interested in the french speaking parts of the country, so Madawaska occupies an unusual amount of headspace for me since it's the town with the most US francophones. Whenever I think about making big moves across the country, I always think about New England :).
You should take a closer look at the sattelite image and google map at 16:11. You got confused there as the geoguessr solution says you were far more to the west than you guessed. However, the road layout in Macau seems to indicate the geoguessr solution is right, but the layout of the landshape and roads in china seems to indicate you were right with your guess. I don't know how the road map can be so misaligned!
you are the goat just saw your comment on innerspeaker live from the wave house what a goat. Noitced 12:51 in one video aswell what a goat music taste.
Hey Tom, actually there wasnt any bugs with China map. China intentionally screws its maps up for intelligence purposes, so maps never actually match the satellite. No way to actually get 5k there unless very lucky.
At least for that round, you can still look at the Macau side. The correct location of the border checkpoint is "Posto Fronteiriço das Portas do Cerco" which is on the Macau side. The Chinese border checkpoint is "Gong Bei Kou An" which is misrepresented as you say.
No it's not, everything else lined up except for the shore line, roads, wharfs, etc all lined up perfectly. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken. The map data is more recent.
@@LastZepp1 Okay, I had just overlapped the satellite imagery with maps and indeed the roads on mainland's side are all on an offset. My theory was indeed incorrect. ty for pointing that out.
That town in the last one is Arlon. I know because I recognised that station having passed through on the train last summer. The village looks wealthy because it's in Luxembourg.
@@essby_ The pin is to the left of the big road next to the "Dog Park". You can also tell by the curved edge of the tall buildings lining up to the left of that junction.
@@essby_ look at the distance between the "Parque Municipal Dr. Sun Yat Sen" and the "Posto Fronteiriço das Portas de Cerco", the pin is about the same distance to the East of the border post. If you compare satellite and map on Google Maps, you'll see that everything (the roads & pinned locations) on the China side are shifted to the East.
The Macau one is not wrong, the maps in china are wrong. The location was correct when compared to anything on the Macau side of the border. look at google earth with the map overlay. I don't accept that it was a perfect score
No it's not, everything else lined up except for the shore line. Roads, wharfs, etc all lined up perfectly. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken. The map data is more recent.
@@pepapu7112 no offence but you're wrong, look at google maps and switch from map to satellite. its hard to compare to what tom can see because he moves so fast. but i promise you the map is different.
Amazing finds! Much better than i would have done, but it was frustrating watching you equate a road to a border haha - roads usually pass through borders no along them
Thanks for another great and fun video Tom, happy to say I havent missed one video since the first Wales attempt 4 years ago and I am always looking forward to the next ! Hope you had a great honeymoon, cheers !
The first one is, funnily enough, the only spot on the Portuguese-Spanish border that is disputed. In spite of being the oldest continuously defined border, since the treaty of Zamora in the 1200s, the area around Olivenç/za has been disputed since the Spanish took it during the Napoleonic wars and didn't return it after the Congress of Vienna.
I don't get why some people are saying the china Macau border one was correct but the coast has just changed. There's the giant building and you can see the building on maps. You are very clearly right of the building on the street view but directly south of it on the map view. It's 100% just the pin being wrong (or I guess the map itself being wrong since it's due to china privacy stuff)
I didn't get aerial view; just regular street view. Did I miss selecting a certain setting? And, yeah, I also forgot to take into account the Chinese GPS shift for Macau. Off by a point on that one.
You did get a perfect score Tom, although I must admit that on the third round there were indications that the map was slightly shifted to the right and on the fourth round the marker was off the border but a little bit so one might had been able to guess the marker was actual closer to the building and not the sea. That one is not me of course I was way off in my guesses.
only reason i recognized the calais/st stephen border is because i recently went to nova scotia for the second year in a row on vacation with my girlfriend, and that’s where we cross over!
Last one I knew instantly. Really fun fact. Those two countries have two different ways of driving. Left and Right hand side. And at the border they have to use specific tactics. Like there's a bridge called the "lotus bridge" made for that where lanes go over and under. Really fun
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“If it’s Spain, it has to be the border with Mexico”
- Geowizzard 2023
"Which is entirely feasable"
@@theflyingspaniard6881 I 100% thought he was joking, especially with that add-on. Just a classic deadpan faulty statement for a laugh. But nope, turned out it was just honeymoon brain.
The two z's in Wizzard is perfect in the context of fucking up. Those who know know!
Which is entirely feasible
This would be an American mistake but not British
The Spanish-Mexican border. Geowizard been focusing too much on the wedding to remember things like "geography". Congrats again!
He's such a good wizard he was able to will Spain onto another continent
I was wondering which overseas territory of Spain borders Mexico
its entirely feasible
When he said "Which is entirely feasible", I started to doubt my own geography knowledge. xD
How he realized what he said, and then said Mexico again
It's a great relief that Tom found out that he was in fact recording
Now we know!
It's a sad fact that if there's ever a time he is not recording, we won't see it
I really enjoy watching the ones when he wasn't.
@@EdMcF1 yeah but it's so frustrating when he closes his curtains
I must admit....I hold my breath each and every time!
The Norway round was pretty nuts... You zoomed right on it!
Same with the US/Canada round. He just chose a city and boom that was it
@@Chooopy Had to be there though, cause we knew it was on the eastern coast.
he might be cheating beforehand
@@cd-zw2tt lol you must be new here
@@ChooopyNorway was the first thing that popped up into my head when I saw the second round and I don’t even play the game. He’s just that damn good
I have come to have great respect for Tom's phenomenal geographical knowledge, so when he mentioned the border between Spain and Mexico, I had a massive existential crisis and suddenly doubted everything I thought I knew.
I thought it was a hilarious joke.
My guess for the offset for the location on the border between China and Macau would be whats described in the wikipedia article "Restrictions on geographic data in China" under section "GPS shift problem"
I didn't know Chinese restrictions could be so annoying.
@@MrAlsachti try living in china :p
If you overlay the satellite image and the street map on google maps you'll see that the pinned location is correct but the street map on the chinese site is shifted to the east by about 500m and changed abit
No it's not, everything else lined up except for the shore line. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken.
@@pepapu7112 yes it is, just go to the middle of beijing on google maps, turn on satellite imagery and see if the roads line up with the image.
9:49 The questions "Which countries have a common neighbor" with "Norway & North Korea" as one of the options was in fact years ago on the German "Who wants to be a millionaire?"!
I have actually had the question twice in pub quizes! But me being Norwegian might skew the data a bit
Interesting. I wonder what the other 3 options were.
@@Gameboygenius Spain & Mexico was probably one of the three
@@Gameboygenius I just googled it: On May 16th 2011, question 13 (125000 €)
Welche beiden Staaten haben ein gemeinsames Nachbarland ?
A: Nordkorea & Norwegen B: Venezuela & Portugal C: Somalia & Israel D: Indonesien & Griechenland
@@andy_DE thanks. So it seems C is the "obvious" bait. Did it also say what the contestant answered, or if they pulled out?
8:05
That is actually insane that you managed to zoom into the correct tributary without even trying
That was so perfect 😂
@@mloxardright?? 😭😭
It really isn't all that insane. The location was chosen to be where the border drops down from the river. If you were committed to that part of Norway, that's where you'd likely look first if you were to try scanning all along the river. If anything it was a well chosen location where the challenge is finding the right general location rather than tedious pinpointing.
@@Gameboygenius "ak-shually *adjusts glasses* it isn't all that insane... the lokay-SHUN was CHOSEN to be where the..."
@@Gameboygenius 🤓
Actually, *there **_is_** a border between Spain and Mexico.* It's also across a body of water (same as that part of the border with Portugal), just a little bit wider than the Guadiana river. I believe it's called the "Atlantic" or something like that.
If you account for exclusive economic zones, then travel from Spain to Mexico without encroaching on other countries would have to go all the way around South America to the Pacific side.
@@stephenbeck7222 - Well, as long as you don't fish or drill for oil near Cuba, you should be covered by Freedom of Navigation even if you go the "short" way.
He was just thinking the past when they were one in the same
I am from Luxembourg and I sometimes drive down this road that goes to Arlon. My first thought was that it looked so like home, and once I spotted the road to Arlon, I knew I was right. It is always so nice to see your home region on Geoguessr
It's always pretty easy to find Luxembourg because of the black roofs. There's nowhere else (that I've seen) in the world with so many black roofs except in Luxembourg and 50km away from the border.
do you know what that spiral thing on the roof is, by any chance?
@@isthatrubble Tbh, from what I can see on streetview, it just looks like a pile of left over turf from when they built that building next to it. Some plants on it, but other than that, I don‘t think it serves a particular purpose.
why do you drive there? what do you do there? ANSWER
@@mftmss7086 wtf chill out
This episode was one of the most impressive yet. He got the countries and locations bang on instantly from first impressions! I'm amazed
"The border between Mexico and Spain"
-GeoWizard
You are so awesome dude. You inspired me to get into geography and now I am pretty good at it myself. Keep up the work dude.
He obviously lives in the future and Spain has reclaimed all of its former colonies with the exception of Mexico.
Borderline great content this!
That joke crossed the line
I'm between two states, that of 😂 and 🙄
@@Carbon2861996that's a mission accomplished for dads in both Mexico and Spain, among others
I'm so happy to see you uploading frequently. Your videos are gold
The unrecorded were better…but the language was too blue.
In round 4, the correct location of the border checkpoint is "Posto Fronteiriço das Portas do Cerco" which is on the Macau side. The Chinese border checkpoint is "Gong Bei Kou An" but it is misrepresented because in China accurate map data is a state secret.
No it's not, everything else lined up except for the shore line, roads, wharfs, etc all lined up perfectly. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken. The map data is more recent.
@@pepapu7112 No, the map data is just off, you can check it for yourself on google maps when you turn on satelite view. Here is a screnshot of what it looks like i.imgur.com/M32j4Jt.png
For legal reasons the map of China does not line up with the imagery
My previous theory was wrong, I doublechecked and indeed the roads on mainland's side are on an offset
@@pepapu7112 exactly, it wasn't a glitch, he just lost 2 points for not looking at roads
I have used the question "how many countries do you have to cross to go from Norway to North-Korea?" in a pubquiz before! The highest answer was 14 😂
How many of those 14 countries were Russia I wonder. You'd still have to cross Russia once to get from Finland to Estonia. Then depending on whether you allow yourself to pass a bridge in Istanbul you'd need to cross it again from Ukraine to Georgia if you were doing a min Russia% run.
Oddly enough my challenge link did the street view and not the satellite view. I must have missed a step, but it was still tons of fun! It was probably a similar difficulty, but in a different kind of way. Great video!
Same here
Me too. I had to go into the unity script (colored buttons on the right) and switch it to satellite, and turn off weather as it was showing rain(?) on the Norway round. I'm not very familiar with those settings. Don't know if they can deliberately override game settings, or it it was a glitch.
@@glenmiller1437 thanks! Yeah I don't think I had this issue on the arial cities challenge
Tom makes every challenge he does look a lot easier than it is
Watching Tom play Papers Please would be a treat, I hope he plays it at some point
Let's see if he can find the border between Spain and Cobrastan.
The pin on the Macau side was right. You can even see the little Park next to the gig residential buildings. The problem is that the satellite footage on the Chinese side is getting warped by Chinas "anti-mapping" policy. Never noticed that is so extreme but you can even see the Chinese border control just sitting in the milde of nowhere.
Everything else lined up except for the shore line. Roads, wharfs, etc all lined up perfectly. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken. The map data is more recent.
@@pepapu7112No, China hasn't filled up that bay in a significant way, it's the GPS shift issue the other user is describing.
@@jest0riz0r yes, I had doublechecked and indeed it was due to the gps shift. My previous theory was incorrect.
the gps shift is most extreme on the macao and hong kong borders, this is because macao and hong kong allow normal gps mapping and zhuhai and shenzhen don't, so you have some lines on the map where parts are corrected and others aren't, leading to bigger issues than having everything in gps or being in mainland china and viewing everything warped and corrected.
Magine his reactions the times he was not recording. Sad we'll never get to experience that
Following one of these borders as close as possible from beginning to end sounds like a great mission!
I live every single time Latvia is mentioned, thank you! ❤❤
I go to play along, quite enjoying these, only my satellite view plugin has decided to stop working, so I'm on street view. Anyway the first one pops up and I'm thinking European, hmm yes, maybe greek, I spot the bridge, maybe some of those countries around there, turkey, croatia maybe, spend ages looking for the river, give up and guess roughly. Obviously I'm miles out. Then I go to watch the video and pretty much the first words out of your mouth 'Looks like Spain' great. Thanks for that Tom haha.
Next one, again on street view, I spot the signs saying we're entering Finland, I can't see a river anywhere, the road is not the border, I see the road number as well. I have a look around Norway/Finland but can't spot anything that looks like it, there's no river. So I go all down the Russia/Finland border, find the road name, but it doesn't cross into Russia. I find somewhere where a road does, at the right angle, I think I've got it, place my marker... miles away. It is Norway. Then I open the video to watch Tom, pretty much the first words out of your mouth again 'This looks like Norway'. Cool. Thanks again Tom! I am dreadful.
The round where you lost your perfect score is due to a difference between the actual satelite locations and the mapping data which is intentionally distorted by the Chinese government for national security reasons.
China uses its own satellite array, which is different from the GPS one. The location differences aren't intentional perse, just a result of the different satellite arrays used.
@@jellevm Nope, in this specific case he's correct. China purposely distorts the map data and its alignment by a couple of 100 metres for security issues aka Chinese paranoia. I think wendover did a video on that once.
Actually I don't think that's what happened here. (at least, not entirely).
If you ignore the water and at the road layout, I think the marker was close to being correct. The problem is that the water is not drawn on correctly (or something was changed between the photo and the map being drawn)
it was not a bug or security reasons. he did choose wrong spot. watch again
The game was right. The earthworks in that area have moved the sea line way toward east over the past 20 years. The sat and the map repesented each one a different moment in time. Count the roads and the access and exit lanes and youll'see what I mean.
I am Spanish and love the way of saying "Guadiana" with a perfect Italian accent
I am Italian and i love that too lol
That Norway/Finland spot had a mention of it being the northest point in EU and Finland, just a fun fact to add
Borders often follow rivers... it can cause havoc when rivers decide not to follow borders.
"If it's Spain it'll have to be its border with Mexico" I needed a great laugh today LOL. This is legendary.
You're looking at my home there for a second. On the Macau - China border. So Macau is basically the 2 islands, second, southern one built of Casinos and hotels. North one is the old Portugese settlment in a nutshell. I live on the China side on the left, west side of the river. I should sent you a photo. But i didn't realise it till you actually said "could be hong kong". Which is odd because I look at the maps almost every day. I actually thought instantly that is was Barca or somewhere in the middle east. Quite a mash up.
Great relief when you looked at Macau, I was absolutely worried there that this was going to be a long one.
The link sent me to the correct places, but normal street view, not satellite. I'm so impressed at how quickly you got them!
Yeah, you need a plugin to do the satellite imagery
@@WilliamAndrea what plugin?
You definitely got screwed on the China Macau one, but you DID click to the east of the correct location - If you had nailed it, it probably would have only been off by one point. The marshy area that juts into the mainland looks like water on the satellite image, but is indicated as solid land on the map.
I'm always astonished by the Tom's hunches, so accurate!
Amazing as always, Tom 👏 I recognized the Portuguese/Spanish border right away, the scattered trees are so characteristic of the region. I've actually been searching for a good line starting by the Guardiana river border (a line that I will never try to walk). Anyways, good to know I'm Mexican now!
Despite the Spain/Mexico comment, I’m amazed at your instincts for those borders as I was whole continents off in my guesses. So excited for lots more GeoGussr content to come and belated congrats on the wedding!
Was I the only one that played along but got regular GeoGuessr maps? I'm not sure if the aerial view is better than street view or not!
You need some kind of sketchy plugin to get the aerial view. Not for me.
Seems to have thrown me into a google earth view instead of satellite hmm
Yeah, I got mine in street view. Didn't realize I was playing incorrectly until after I finished playing because I clicked on the video for the link, immediately closed the video, then came back when I was done playing & only just now realized it was supposed to be a bird's eye view game.
think u need a 3rd party plugin for this
same :(
I really like these videos they are something different compared to normal geoguessr honestly i prefer these
16:24 tl;dr Combining Macau’s GPS data and China’s obfuscated GPS data at the border notoriously breaks online maps.
Wikipedia: Restrictions on geographic data in China (Hong Kong and Macau)
Under Chinese law, the use of geographic information in the People’s Republic of China is restricted. Under One Country Two Systems, legislation in mainland China does not apply in Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions, and there are no similar restrictions in the SARs. Therefore, the GPS shift problem does not apply. However, at the border between the SARs and mainland China, the data shown by online maps are broken where the shifted data and correct data overlap.
Love your content, been here since the straight line across uk
Fantastic job! A good thing to keep in mind for this map is that borders usually run either across roads or along rivers. There’s also usually a clear tree line/ farmers field alongside it.
Take care as well Tom! So much love was felt in that ending of a video, like I like your videos so much man :) And it shows that you really care for your viewers :) Cheers!
"Spain-Mexico border" will be quite a memorable quote for a long time
You made the comment about Norway/North Korea being a pub quiz question that probably won't ever come up but we've had, "What 2 countries touch Russia and start with the same 3 letter before?" And my team didn't believe me that both touched Russia lol.
Once again questioning my geography knowledge with the revelation that norway and north korea share a neighbour. Well done
I'm kinda proud of myself for getting the USA/Canada border location almost immediately. I don't even really know why it was so obvious to me, but I saw the border and thought "that is the most Maine-looking border I've seen in my life" and went with it lol.
Same! Thought it could be Madawaska at first but it was missing the mill! Always happy to see my state's existence be recognized lol
@@evergreenappreciator I'm about as far away from the state of Maine as a continuous US American can be, but I'm very interested in the french speaking parts of the country, so Madawaska occupies an unusual amount of headspace for me since it's the town with the most US francophones.
Whenever I think about making big moves across the country, I always think about New England :).
Love to see the more frequent geoguessr uploads!
You should take a closer look at the sattelite image and google map at 16:11. You got confused there as the geoguessr solution says you were far more to the west than you guessed. However, the road layout in Macau seems to indicate the geoguessr solution is right, but the layout of the landshape and roads in china seems to indicate you were right with your guess. I don't know how the road map can be so misaligned!
Your instincts are legendary
Half way through the video before he asks "are we recording?" That may be a record!
"who curled that one out?" ... nearly spat my drink up my monitor ya git!!
you are the goat just saw your comment on innerspeaker live from the wave house what a goat. Noitced 12:51 in one video aswell what a goat music taste.
i've been watching you for a long time, the Norwegian round is the most impressed ive ever been lmao you went right to it
Norway being one border away from North Korea got me a pointless answer on Pointless before
Love that your first instincts were right. You haven't lost your touch, mate.
"i might be wrong" and that's when you know he's goddamn right
ah yes the deep dense, harsh tundra of New Brunswick
Hey Tom, actually there wasnt any bugs with China map. China intentionally screws its maps up for intelligence purposes, so maps never actually match the satellite. No way to actually get 5k there unless very lucky.
At least for that round, you can still look at the Macau side. The correct location of the border checkpoint is "Posto Fronteiriço das Portas do Cerco" which is on the Macau side. The Chinese border checkpoint is "Gong Bei Kou An" which is misrepresented as you say.
No it's not, everything else lined up except for the shore line, roads, wharfs, etc all lined up perfectly. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken. The map data is more recent.
@@pepapu7112 With all due respect - it is a good guess, but unfortunately wrong,
@@LastZepp1 Okay, I had just overlapped the satellite imagery with maps and indeed the roads on mainland's side are all on an offset. My theory was indeed incorrect. ty for pointing that out.
You’re unbelievable Tom!
ah yes, the spanish-mexican border. entirely feasable.
love you tom.
That town in the last one is Arlon. I know because I recognised that station having passed through on the train last summer. The village looks wealthy because it's in Luxembourg.
16:14 The map was a bit misleading but the pin was in the correct location, you realise once you match up the roads
idk what roads you were lining up, but the pin was definitely in the wrong spot.
@@essby_ The pin is to the left of the big road next to the "Dog Park". You can also tell by the curved edge of the tall buildings lining up to the left of that junction.
@@essby_ look at the distance between the "Parque Municipal Dr. Sun Yat Sen" and the "Posto Fronteiriço das Portas de Cerco", the pin is about the same distance to the East of the border post. If you compare satellite and map on Google Maps, you'll see that everything (the roads & pinned locations) on the China side are shifted to the East.
@@essby_ All the roads are lining up on Macau side. And pin was in the right spot.
The Macau one is not wrong, the maps in china are wrong.
The location was correct when compared to anything on the Macau side of the border.
look at google earth with the map overlay.
I don't accept that it was a perfect score
No it's not, everything else lined up except for the shore line. Roads, wharfs, etc all lined up perfectly. The discrepancy of the shore line is because China has filled up the bay and built on it since the satellite imagery was taken. The map data is more recent.
@@pepapu7112 no offence but you're wrong,
look at google maps and switch from map to satellite. its hard to compare to what tom can see because he moves so fast. but i promise you the map is different.
@@tingstrap Yes, I double checked and I was wrong.
Amazing finds! Much better than i would have done, but it was frustrating watching you equate a road to a border haha - roads usually pass through borders no along them
the norway one was crazy .... basically hit it directly
Fantastic to know, you're recording tom! Always have to check.
I too appreciate the Mr. Whippy!
Thanks for another great and fun video Tom, happy to say I havent missed one video since the first Wales attempt 4 years ago and I am always looking forward to the next ! Hope you had a great honeymoon, cheers !
wedding ring now, congrats Tom!!🎉
Of course the one Belgian city I've spent more than an hour in since becoming an adult I remembered, and it just happened to be Arlon.
The first one is, funnily enough, the only spot on the Portuguese-Spanish border that is disputed.
In spite of being the oldest continuously defined border, since the treaty of Zamora in the 1200s, the area around Olivenç/za has been disputed since the Spanish took it during the Napoleonic wars and didn't return it after the Congress of Vienna.
Austrian colours with Latvian proportions is certainly an interesting choice for the thumbnail flag
Jesus you are good at this!
Greetings from Lithuania, Tom! A big fan here.
I don't get why some people are saying the china Macau border one was correct but the coast has just changed. There's the giant building and you can see the building on maps. You are very clearly right of the building on the street view but directly south of it on the map view. It's 100% just the pin being wrong (or I guess the map itself being wrong since it's due to china privacy stuff)
Robbed of victory, but yes, a perfect score.
Great content as always.
Watching a GeoWizard video is like therapy at that point
you should make a merch with the quote "are we recording" and below that your confused expression
I didn't get aerial view; just regular street view. Did I miss selecting a certain setting? And, yeah, I also forgot to take into account the Chinese GPS shift for Macau. Off by a point on that one.
"it would have to be the border with Mexico"
Me: 😐🤨🤔😖😯😅😂
Tundra in New Brunswick? Always some interesting soundbites from GeoWizard as usual.
12th! Haha keep these frequent uploads up Tom! We love you!
12:54 was unreal. You're a wizard man 🧐
8:35 „and i think i‘ve found it“ 😂😂😂
I aways feel relief when he does in fact confirm he's recording even though I know he is since I'm watching lol
The fact that I simply believed there was some sort of spanish enclave near Mexico because Tom is like an authority to me
Oh my you nailed these!!!
You did get a perfect score Tom, although I must admit that on the third round there were indications that the map was slightly shifted to the right and on the fourth round the marker was off the border but a little bit so one might had been able to guess the marker was actual closer to the building and not the sea.
That one is not me of course I was way off in my guesses.
😂 Forgot what his avatar looked like. When he hit results that made me laugh
the macau border was actually correct on the geoguesser side, the water is confusing, but everything else is right
Thanks for this Tom
I guessed Luxembourg almost instantly just because it looked western European and wealthy. That Norway perfect zoom in was great.
I played along but it was regular Geoguesr, not the sattelite view lol. Had fun anyway
love this concept, you should definitely do more of these !
4:25 Phew, you figured it out. :P It seemed obvious to me just from the satellite view with the marker on it that the river would be the border.
only reason i recognized the calais/st stephen border is because i recently went to nova scotia for the second year in a row on vacation with my girlfriend, and that’s where we cross over!
this was super fun, do more of it Tom :)
Last one I knew instantly. Really fun fact. Those two countries have two different ways of driving. Left and Right hand side. And at the border they have to use specific tactics. Like there's a bridge called the "lotus bridge" made for that where lanes go over and under. Really fun
Belgium and Luxemburg both drive on the right hand side. Maybe you meant a different border out of the 5 presented?
@@ArielBiMBa China and Macao
1:24 that was terrifying