Could You Identify This Famous Border? [No Moving, Play Along Challenge]
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- We've played country borders from above, here's borders from the ground. A completely different affair to last time but requiring just as much detective work.
Can I figure out which country border I'm looking at just from one google photosphere? You'll have to watch to find out, but I can reveal that I was clumsy. You have every chance of beating my score on this one, so now's the time to give it a go if you haven't already.
PLAY ALONG: Play your round, put your marker down, then switch tabs back to UA-cam to watch my attempt and the result. This way you don't ruin the game or the video!
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Had a blast with this one but definitely didn’t have my best day at the office. Never played along before and always wondered if you could beat me? Now’s your chance!
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Slovakia Hungary's border is way more open. most of those are above the treeline
just a note regarding the Canada/US border: there are fences along most of the border. The only places where they mainly rely on cameras and motion sensors are really remote places up in the mountains, but all the accessible parts of the border have been getting fenced off over the last few years.
@@rekt_ggbruh read the whole sentence buddy
Would be fun with a border mission
Please do a border mission!!
Gotta say, Tom not going too pro in Geoguessr is what makes his Geoguessr videos the best on UA-cam, the hunt that he does and truly trying to solve it methodically is what got me into Geoguessr to begin with and it’s refreshing that it’s basically the same as it’s always been with Tom.
The pro Geoguessr stuff is cool i guess and impressive, but the meta game and car knowledge and all that just takes away some of that charm that we see on the Geowizard channel
Agreed. Meta can be fun on the surface but Tom's style is what I enjoy the most!
Yeah the pro stuff is a bit too crazy, Toms videos let you play along a bit more easily
Yeah, when I see those videos and an interesting street pops up that looks like it could be three or four different countries, I like sussing out the location by languages on signs, types of trees, maybe even the fashions of the people. But then the meta guys pop off with, "This is a gen-2 camera and those light poles have cross bars at 85-degree angles and the bollard has a yellow stripe before the blue stripe instead of a magenta stripe followed by a gold stripe and the Google car's antenna is under five centimeters...so this is obviously..." and off they go to the next one. There's just something really deflating. Do math puzzles or something if that's all you get out of it, yeesh.
"The destructions down in the inscriptions", great quote.
😅
queat grote indeed!
yep
@@CH1705 A wizard.
Shame we'll never see when Tom is NOT recording😢
At least once I’ve seen him start a video with “I wasn’t recording”
It's a little known fact that Tom has actually successfully completed over 100 straight line missions, including epic platinum slogs across Australia, Canada, Russia and Brazil. Unfortunately he forgot to record on those occasions!
I want to like this comment, but it has 69 likes, so I'm not allowed 😂
We'll just have to convince Verity to somehow sabotage OBS so it's not recording and then film his reaction.
He should have a spare camera where it just records his intros in case he realises he wasn’t recording with his other camera
The "border mission" idea is gold! 👌
Yes! He should start with a small one, like Russia or Brazil
@@glumada2 Nah, go big or go home. Definitely the border of Italy and the Vatican.
YES BORDER MISSION GO GO GO!
Yes, do Norway-Sweden. Its only 1600 km😁
USA-Canada border.
For your border mission try the Canada and Denmark border. Getting there will be the actual mission.
😂
Free whiskey at the border!
Always love the local music during the speed ups, it’s a nice touch 🎶
I never knew a-ha were Norwegian :D
there is 3 things guaranteed in life
- death
- taxes
and Tom checking to see if he's recording in every video
The Finland - Russia border is definitely more heavily guarded. There's not a fence everywhere, but there definitely isn't just a road that passes from country to country without a checkpoint.
That was my thinking I just didn't know it would have been that far south so I guessed northern Finland. I thought it would be a bit more developed that far south
I was sure it was the border that Tom Scott once covered, where a road goes through Russia for a few hundred meters before heading back in one of the Baltic states and you're not allowed to stop or you'll get arrested. Turns out it's in Estonia and it's called "Saatse Boot". But no, it was just some random Norwegian/Swedish border. Tom's video title mislead me and made me think it had to be famous border crossings which the first round felt like it would qualify. And this bit of road going through Russia with no actual checkpoint was the only thing that would make sense in the general region if it had to be at least somewhat famous.
Starting with a "we are recording" does take some of the suspense out of the video... I am always on the edge of my seat waiting to find out if Tom is indeed recording!
And yet we know that if we're watching it, it means that indeed he was
@lulubibilu that's the joke..
@@lulubibilu Thanks for explaining the joke :)
@@bano363 my comment was also a joke 🤣
On the first round, Me: Ahh nice, Niagra falls, I get one at last.
Tom: It can't be Niagra falls obviously
Same haha
I know it's been out a couple years now, but I just recently realized that you created all the music for your straight line and how not to travel videos, wow! You are really talented! Love this channel and everything you make. Cheers from Michigan.
wow really? that's awesome!
Would never have had the patience to guess the Norway Sweden one. The Iguazú falls one was easy to me because I'm close-ish to it.
I spent almost 15 mins on it, gave up, and put it on Norway/Finland
@@LB197315 minutes and u didnt notice its all river between Winland and Swedistan? wow
well, I think it was easy enough to at least narrow it down to somewhere in Scandinavia, the Baltic States or Russia because those are the only parts of Europe with boreal/taiga forests like that. But beyond that I think it would pretty much be a random guess if you're not closely familiar with those places.
that was my guess too.@@LB1973
@@patrickrane7993 Norway Finland soz
Got my first perfect score on the Thailand/Myanmar round playing along, looked at how wide the river was, I'm shit at flags, saw the road running straight south east for ages. I can't read or distinguish individual SE Asian scripts, so I checked all along every border in the Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand area for maybe 10 mins with a wide river until I found one that looked suitable and got it at 21 metres away and absolutely wowed myself, chugged the rest of my Hobgoblin Gold to celebrate too! 🍺
Nice one. The golden temple drew me in initially, as they are quite an iconic sight of Myanmar.
In the Sweden-Norway round you could immediately exclude it being Sweden-Finland because the 12t sign was red and yellow and the 80kmph sign was red and white.
Sweden and Finland both have red and yellow whereas Norway has red and white. So it was either Sweden-Norway or Finland-Norway.
and I wish i knew that lol
The Slovakian music you found was incredible! Loved it!
Hey Tom, Slovakian speaking. The Slovak round had all information there on those 2 signs - Žilinský kraj (Žilina region) and Okres Námestovo (Námestovo county). So any border crossing around Námestovo should work. Also the vibe is definitely north Slovakia, the border with Hungary is mostly flat and no trees and there is basically never snow there. Cheers.
Žilinský kraj jsem ještě poznal/přečetl a odvodil (sever, sníh atd.), ale ten okres jsem nerozluštil a nechtěl jsem podvádět, jen jsem věděl, že to není Čadca (Bumbálka a okolí).
Thanks for the content Tom!
A "follow the border" mission would be an epic adventure btw
And you can only deviate off the line a certain distance like in the straight line missions
Or else you're in legal trouble
@@alexyates7166 Not if it's within Schengen area.
Let's get carried away All The Way, please. Country Border Mission is inevitable now, honestly.
I 100% support this in theory, i am clueless on the feasability though. I am sure it will be very different for every border so there might very well be ones that are possible.
First time playing along ! 🙋
I got 16,354 points, I'm from Argentina so got a perfect score for that one, and the Northern Ireland which was a freebie.
Just impressed that I got all the borders right, even if it wasn't quite the correct road or place, apart from the Norway one, which I thought I was being clever for thinking it was Canada after seeing the sign in Km/h.
Can't wait to see you play more of these, Tom ! (whoever wins the next one gets the Falklands)
+10 Internet points for the sped up "Take On Me".
15:11 the signs in the front tell you in which region and county you are and the sign in the back tells you how you should drive on the roads when you come in slovakia (Zilina kraj (Zilina region) and Okres Namestovo (County Namestovo))
I did the play along for the first time, it was really fun spotting Iguazu faster than Tom did since I've actually visited there! But of course my final score was lower, I'm not patient enough to scour the map the same way you do. Thanks for the content, looking forward to the next geodetective!
We need you to record your room with an extra camera so we can finally see the moment you realize you’re not recording
My toxic trait is thinking the first one was Niagara Falls
Why is that toxic?
because it's kinda stupid @@Fragenzeichenplatte
Not gonna lie at first i was like, “Tom why are you even loooking around like you don’t know that it’s obviously Niagara Falls”
How's that toxic or a trait? tf?
@@MarkusAnthony88 it’s a joke from tiktok calm down
Gotta appreciate the Slovak songs in the background haha, nice Tom
i also quite enjoyed the digitized/sped up version of Take On Me
Glad I chose to play along for this one, I got a score of 16,999. I am happy with it being my first ever GeoGuessr game. Thanks for the commentary, really helps me rationalise my thought process as well.
nice one dude! keep going you seem to have crazy good knowledge thats a great score for your 1st game :)
"just gunnna have a quick gander...". ... "bugger"... I hope the non English viewers are enjoying the idioms and speech of the English from Tom's brilliant narration.
i did indeed follow the destructions in the inscription below
In settings there is an option to use the Original compass i personally prefer it for road angles and directions
I actually did a border mission this year: Germany / Belgium. It was a great adventure, altough I did not stick as close to the line as Geowizard on his Straight Line Missions. Would love to see Geowizard do it too!
How did you deal with the Vennbahn situation?
I have been waiting for Tom to do some sort of mission in Belgium. This border idea seems kind of perfect
All the borders of Baarle?
Between Baarle and the Vennbahn Belgium truly has some crazy interesting borders that would be great for a project like this.
If you prefer the old compass I do believe you can switch back to it in your settings!
Tom edged me out on this one (partly but not entirely because I made much more hurried guesses today) but it's funny how similar our guesses were despite wildly different thought processes to get there: I knew Iguazu Falls pretty much straight off but also thought I was looking at the island across the water and guessed in about the same spot as Tom. Then I was correctly on the Sweden-Norway border right away but guessed a crossing much further north and lost lots of points. I spotted and recognized the Slovakia crest right away but convinced myself staring at the blurry signs that they were town names in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts and one of them started with a Z, which led me to guess at a crossing on the Slovakia-Ukraine border which lost me more points. In the Thailand round I also went near Vientiane, never bothering to check out the Myanmar border much further south. Then the last round was an easy 5k, although on this one I think I actually spent more time than Tom double-checking if there were other highways crossing the border that correlated before clicking the green button. Thanks as always for the challenge!
16,575 for me...I couldn't find Iguazu Falls so clicked stupidly at another waterfall far away, which killed my score. Got the easy 5K between Ireland and NI in 30 seconds, and got the other 3 border two countries right, although at the wrong spots. I'm a bit disappointed Tom that you didn't immediately think Norway-Sweden, because the western sides were white filled in and the eastern yellow.
Ilearned a valuable life lesson. Your thumbnail made me think of Victoria Falls so Inever even did my due deligence to make sure it wasn't.
Me:” oh this has to be Niagara Falls”
Tom:”this is not Niagara Falls, obviously”
This is why I just stick to watching!
Well played Tom. My only truly bad guess was the waterfall one which I was sure was Victoria falls.
There are no lasers or cameras along the Norway-Sweden border (well, there are cameras at designated border crossings on major roads, but not in places like this).
Tom, the vast majority of the Canadian/US border is not surveilled or guarded. It’s simply there. Forests and wood for miles and miles.
i love that you leave obs bit at the start XD
I think you could tell which way the river flows by looking at the boats' bows pointing upstream when moored.
This is written on the day of the World Cup finals and I want to remind everybody that GeoWizard is the true goat of geoguessr content making ❤
15:06 The second word on the upper sign says "KRAJ" which is slovakian (and czech) for district and the first word starts with Z and isn't too long. Did quick search for big cities starting with Z and found Žilina. Just a way to narrow down the border section.
You're getting so good at engagement bait with that misspeech at the start. Clever!
A giveaway of the Norway-Sweden border is that road signs on one side (Norway) have a white background and on the other a yellow background (Sweden). Signs in Finland have a yellow background like in Sweden.
It's also funny how Sweden and Norway care so little about their border that the logging company just casually put their log pile in two countries.
Good point :) (and also blocking the border with logs on one side of the road)
Lol yes that looks funny. 😄 As a Swede I have zero worry that Norway will invade us. The only thing the Norwegians do is shop a lot in Sweden, since our food and goods are usually cheaper. 🙂 So it makes sense that we don't spend money on guarding the border.
An Extraordinary World is my go to map now. Great combo of street view and photospheres all in neat places!
Sweden-Norway border was the only one I got, driven past it many times. You could see the yellow road signs that the swedes use and the white norway use, and the classic cutout of the trees
Great video again Tom! "Good" to hear you couldnt get the satellite view to work, because I'm havibg problems with it also since a couple of weeks. Now i know it's not me😅
Yep - tried it today for the first ever time and thought I must have done something wrong setting it up.
17:17 "What are we driving on?" Silly Tom, this is SE Asia, we drive wherever there is just enough of a gap to not have a fatal accident.
The flow of the river is indicated by the direction of the moored boats; they'll be facing up stream.
Yeah, you definitely beat me. For some reason I got it in my head that the second one was on the Canada/Alaska border and didn't even consider anywhere else. Needless to say, not a great result. The rest I did pretty well on. I had gotten that golden turtle round just recently and remembered the exact location.
Nailed the first and the last. Went a bit too far north on the second, but was fooled by the compass being a bit off. For the third, I confused the two countries that Tom mentioned in the beginning of that round after seeing the coat of arms, and I picked the wrong one. For the fourth, I had no real clue other than the country the picture was taken in, and I placed my marker on the same country border as Tom, only more to the SE but roughly as far from the correct location. For a score of just under 21 000.
Hey Tom. Stationary Boats always point against the stream in rivers.
The border mission is a genius idea and I hope you get to do it one day
My favorite part is getting to see a general idea of what the different regions look like in person
Going around Scandinavia a lot I could tell the seccond one was Sweden and Norway based on the speed limit signs. And the lack of montains told me it was quite far south.
If you do a border mission, I think Wales would be fun. It'd be beautiful, quite rural except for a few towns which could be a base, you wouldn't have to travel abroad or worry about immigration and passports and border guards.
And slightly similar, you could do a "Walking the length of the Thames" where you walk from the "source" (in the Cotswolds) all the way along it towards London. You'd pass through a number of towns and cities so you wouldn't need to worry about survival and camping, but I don't know if anyone's ever done it before, not on UA-cam anyway.
Both would take a couple days at least, but still neither of them would be really dangerous or illegal.
17:15 We're drivng on... what are we driving on? hahahah this was the best moment for me!
Tip for Nordic search: Norwegian & Danish signs are black letters/icons on white. Finland/Sweden, black on yellow.
Like most of your videos but love the geo detective ones! I'd be for really long uncut geo detective videos in return for you taking as long as you need on them. Same for strait line missions! ^^
1:16 “the destructions down in the encryption” 😂😂
Do a lap of a country... that would be incredible!
Regarding the Norway round it did look like the border between Norway and Sweden. At 8:20 there's a kind of stone structure with yellow on top. I've seen those when hiking on the Bohusleden trail near the Norwegian border and it did look like that sort of terrain to me (the southern tip of the Swedish-Norwegian border). When it comes to the Slovakian-Polish border, I immediately thought that it looked like the border between Slovakia and Poland. It looked familiar. I'm not sure if crossed at that border crossing but it looked quite similar to other border crossings between Poland and Slovakia that I have crossed.
I was slightly worse, giving up the Norway-Sweden one too quickly, but with a shockingly getting perfect score in Thailand. Iguazu and Ireland were easy, but I could not find the one for Slovakia even though I realized the compass must be wrong.
Finding out that he’s recording right at the beginning of the video really breaks the suspension
FYI tom there is a setting to revert to the classic compass if you prefer it, I do
1st. I couldn't really figure out the shape of the river and ended up guessing along the border of Bolivia and Brazil. :2,400 points.
2nd. I didn't think it would be with Russia as there were no border guards and such. I noticed the river between Sweden and Finland and went with Sweden and Norway. There was a road sign 120 that I guessed was the number of the road. I found a 126 and some in the 200s further north and something like 106 to the south. From that, I assumed it had to be a road between those and 840 was the only one that looked similar. :5000 points
3rd. I spent a really long time looking on the southern Slovak border as the Slovak flag is on a building to the north. Luckily the south is largely the Danube and other smaller rivers and none of the others made sense so I switched to the Polish border and found the correct one pretty quickly. :5000 points
4th. Clearly Thailand. With how populated it was and the river to our northeastish, the border with Myanmar to the south made the most sense. This one took a really long time as I thought it would be a further bit up the river but I eventually got the right city, but a road or two over. :4998 points
5th. It says Welcome to N Ireland. Took about a minute to settle on the right one. :5000 points
Damn you fumbled on the first. I got pretty 4000-5000 on all. That Thailand one was easy to determine it’s closer to the mouth of the river due to the giant golden sea turtle laying right there rather than further upstream. But all in all not bad.
@@RyanYoxo Were you aware of these falls in the first already? I had no idea and the view we have doesn't really look like what is on the map as most of it is obscured.
Don't know if you playing a cover of an A-ha song (Norwegian band too!) right after saying a-ha while looking at the Norwegian border at 10:59 was intentional... but love it anyway
Love all of your content but I can't wait for the geo detective it's my favourite series
Had a really underwhelming round on this, GG Tom! I did almost exactly the same thing as you in round 4, but I was on the Thai/Laos border! Totally messed up the scandi round, went for Finland/Russia and kicking myself, because the place with the white signs had to be West of the place with yellow signs! Was 1000 miles away in Brazil/Peru. But had to finish it off with 5000 on that almost patronising 'gimmie' round at the end!
8:00 “I’ve got something in mind here for this” *alien disguise glitches*
To determine direction of the flow of the river, the bow of the boat when anchored will point in the opposite direction to the flow of the river.
That Norway / Sweden one was extremely close to my home! Awesome, well done getting that as well.
I´m from Argentina, as soon as you started the game i yelled "Iguazu Falls"! So glad you found it!
Been watching the geoguessr world cup and kept thinking it's all possible due to you. You're a legend, Tom.
If you could only read Thai... the sign in the little pavilion says "Ranong Province"! It also says "Kra Buri", but the "Kra" part is hidden.
16:40 Lol, I crossed the PL/SK border at this particular crossing this summer when going to Slovakian Tatras for vacation :). However, I don't know why it is supposed to be "famous". Łysa Polana or Jurgów are used more frequently. This one is pretty empty.
i knew exacly where the 3rd location was cause i was crossing it many times in me life :D
im glad that u got it SO wrong
Do the "grensemarsj"! The border between Norway and Russia is 196 kms long following two rivers. Paths and roads all the way. And mosquitos. And the midnight sun. And border guards.
It is, mind you, fully legal to be close to the border on the Norwegian side. If you step over the invisible line you'll get a hefty fine.
loving the playalongs and geoguessr content :))
Would love to have you for a mission here in Australia, but unless you’re walking around the border of the ACT or across Tasmania, not sure what you’d be able to do ahaha. All huge.
I wasn't expecting this to work so well, without the satellite view!
That 2nd guess was nuts!
Got to love the down to earth commentry, Guy looks like kitchen staff at Toby Carvery. Baltic.
inb4, tom will still check if he's recording despite checking in the beginning.
And im disappointed; he actually remembered.
Slovak border was very easy for me. With the last one, I have 2x 5k in total :)
Funny you say "It can't be Niagara Falls, obviously" don't rub it in m8, I played along, wanted to be quick, i just saw a waterfall with an observation tower and thought Niagara Falls without doing any detective work whatsoever! 😅😂
Geogussr World Cup is live on youtube and twitch now
I'm trying to convince my friends to come with me on a border mission between Denmark and Germany. Unfortunately they are not that enthousiast as me
If you wanna do a border mission a nice start could be to circumnavigate the border of Luxembourg 👍🏻
You beat me on the second round… love your videos, I’m terrible at GeoGuesser though.
Hey Tom! Hope you’re doing well! Loving the vids as always! What software do you use to speed up and slow down the video with?
I played it very casually and no round was perfect. However, the worst round was round 1 where I didn't even consider any other continent than Africa.
As a Slovakian I enjoyed the cultural touch on 15:28
Thanks for having us Tom! The Challengae link didnt work though. Looking forward to the border mission! Luxembourg could be possible in two or three days I suppose
lol! missed the same thailand round. Went for a spot a bit more north of your guess that felt even better, the hills on the other side even had the little break in the middle with the hill behind...
I did not know that NI uses mph! Love GeoGuessr for knowledge like that.
First one, Iguaçu on the Brazilian side. Perigo = danger in Portuguese.
Immediately recognized it, even though I've never been there.
love the "something about mary" hair doo ;)