@@teliots Not sure why you're disagreeing about that. At 22:47 he says he can't Google image search the photo directly, but he can find something similar and then Google search that (or use Paint like he did)
@@ramsuporter8 when they do that in science and military applications it's usually just to get a cooler or more appropriate sounding acronym. Doesn't help with working out wtf it means without knowing beforehand though.
I think one problem with searching for streetlights might be that those aren't necessarily streetlights associated with a city, but rather that they belong to a building or business park
When you looked at London the first time I recognized the building on the right in the picture. It was so frustrating watching you go through all these cities knowing you went so close from the answer.
I wondered about the Shard being the glass disappearing, but thought the brutalist building didn't make sense. Had a quick check, found it immediately, saw Tom look at the building from the other side of the river, then sat in pain for 10mins.
I was screaming at him because I saw the two buildings! I think he had a moment where something deep in his brain recognized it bc he goes "oh" but then moves on LOL
Word of advice: Google Maps does have 3D buildings. You just need to turn on "Globe view" in satellite imagery. If you hover over the "Layers" button and click "More," the checkbox for globe view will appear. Great video, as always!
Wouldnt the best way to just use the web version of google earth? It has the same 3D imagery than the "globe view" in Maps, but its easier to control and rotate. The 3D building view Tom uses in his desktop google earth looks even worse TBH, because it only highlights certain buildings in 3D
@@forel9573 Yea, but in that case he can just use his desktop app that he already has installed and is just quicker. Thing is when you search in google for stuff, ti will just link you to google maps. And in that case toggling the layers for the 3d buildings might be helpful for a quick look around.
Dude, I freaked out when you picked the EXACT SPOT, but across the river. I could tell by the horizontal building on the side with the glass building on the other side. I checked and there was the skyscraper with the white and "gold" building below it. I'm literally watching this having already found it, but only because you did and didn't realize it lol You're incredible and yet so not incredible simultaneously. It's incredible.
I caught it his first visit too, had to open up google maps on my second screen to double check. I just visited London last autumn and remembered that all glass building that's on the left of the picture, it was really cool and I even took pictures of it, so when I spotted the other building, the one with the distinct horizontal beams, on the other side of the river it was a dead giveaway.
As a Spokane native, I was convinced that the bridge was a different bridge in Spokane, so I did some of my own investigation before Tom just to find that it was not the right one. Imagine my surprise when it was a different Spokane bridge, the Monroe Street bridge! A British guy knows my home city better than me lol
I haven’t even watched it yet but I saw the bridge in hi next video in the series and came here. I thought it was the Monroe street bridge but a mirrored image from his phone. It looks like he’s in the south side in the park they redid next to the dam.
18:54 "This could be London for all I know." 19:07 "Is that in London?!" 21:15 "Let me just check a couple more spots in London." Lol, the second half was painful to watch in true Tom's fashion, I love it. I'm not even from the UK and upon seeing the silhouette of the skyscraper, I immediately thought "That's The Shard, innit?". So I went to Google Maps, looked at The Shard from the river in 3D view and confirmed that there's indeed that white and gold building. And right across it was that alley the photo was take from. Literally 15 seconds. Surely Tom will solve in a minute... *looks at how much time is left in the video* ...oh god, oh no. Kudos to the person who submitted that photo, got Tom good.
The Tunkhannock Viaduct you stopped and said "wow" about is an amazing structure. It is the worlds largest concrete railroad bridge and it creates its own weather.
I have been watching this channel since the first Mission across Wales attempt and I'm not geographical expert, but when I looked at the second picture and thought "I feel like that might be the Shard" on a whim, looked it up on Google Maps, put the marker down and it immediately lined up with the building in the foreground, I was kinda proud of myself :D
Loved this video as always. As a Londoner, I instantly recognised London for the yellowish brick wharf building (the hospital) opposite and, strangely enough, the furthest street lamp. I thought Tom's strategy to look at the street lamp was a good one. I often think you can find the city just by looking at the type of street lights they use - sometimes they look generic but there is always something distinct if you look to the detail. But in the case of the picture in the video, it was actually not the lamps Tom was looking at that would have given a clue, but actually the furthest lamp in the photo, which is an iconic and heritage-protected design along the Thames in the centre. I recognise I'm biased by hindsight and local knowledge with this one, but if Tom went with his guess that it could be London, a search "lamp posts Thames" would have instantly returned a result which could encourage a closer look at London as an option! Look forward to the next Geo Detective, and all the other content
As soon as he pressed into street view in London on 19:25, I was like THATS IT!! He had the mouse over the exact spot but spent 10 minutes drawing lights instead haha
These Geo Detective videos are the reason I subscribed to the channel, and whilst I love the Geoguessr content as well it's really great to see this series return.
Pro-tip: In your browser, you can drag highlighted text up to a blank space in the tab bar and it will do a Google search for that text in a new tab. This saves the steps of having to do Ctrl-C, opening a new tab, and then Ctrl-V.
I’ve only been to London once for a couple of days and even I knew where the second picture was taken the moment you pulled it up on the screen. It was so frustrating watching a Brit struggle to recognize The Shard and Thames riverfront…
That 2nd one, the first time you zoomed in I immediatly thought it was butlers wharf and paused to take a look, only took me a few mins to figure out that it was actually London hospital, just a few hundred meters away. Continued watching and then laughed at loud when you out the man down on the wrong side of the river in a spot that was very likely in the frame of the photo and you looked directly at the spot where the photo was taken from
Damn, you have a lot of different avenues to this channel. I love all of the variety. Even if it is all relatively geography based, it's pretty awesome the types of original content you've amassed
i was so sure that these candidates put in fun names and were in on the joke just to find out that all of the people in the series "pinpoint my shit and i will answer" dont have real names. keep it up! i love it!
You pulled up the first picture & I said to myself "Is that Spokane?" It's strange seeing a place from my own neck of the woods coming up on a channel like this when so often the content is in far flung corners of the world
Regarding the second image, I've been there late last year on a business trip. First time in UK. Somehow it was my first thought when I saw the photo and it took me around 30sec to pinpoint the location (to 500m, didn't bother with exact alley). It was really funny to see a "local" to spend so long on that one :D
I live in Spokane and when that first picture popped up I thought "That looks like the Monroe St Bridge I drive over all the time... no way, it can't be. The chances of that..."
This is such a great series. It would be cool if you were able to put the reference image "always on top" in a corner (like your video), so we can compare it to the other things you look at.
Great video, the detective series just over a year ago is what got me into Geoguessr in the first place, not so much the actual geoguessr content. Go figure! You have way more patience than I do, that's for sure. The "spaceship building" in Columbus you briefly mentioned is COSI (science museum), interesting that it was floating, it is most assuredly on the ground.
That was great acting, pretending not to recognize the shard and even showing us the photo location from the opposite side of the Thames without giggling! Well done!
As soon as Tom originally plopped down on the river in London, I recognized the buildings the picture was taken between from across the river. Then he proceeded to draw a lamp post to reverse image search 😂
The literal Monroe Street Bridge!! Always insane to see Spokane pop up in these kinds of things lol. You should visit the area sometime Tom, lots of diverse scenery and you might be able to do a straight line mission across the Idaho Panhandle 👀
26:52 I have a tip for you, which you probably already knew, just forgot. In the settings for Google Earth you can toggle between the modern 3D imagery they got now, and the legacy models they had in the past. It looks like you are stuck on the low detailed, older models. This can still be useful as some places haven't got modern 3D imagery, so this way you can see the old models and even ones users submitted back in the day.
I have never been to Spokane. When I saw the first picture I immediately thought "this is Spokane". Super proud of that actually. The only thing I know Spokane from is the show Z Nation.
There must be a word for the frustration of knowing where it is in the first few minutes (the Shard one) and then spending the next 15 mins watching Tom struggle with it!!
I have a suspicion of what Tom's next challenge will be, I love trying to figure out things from the file names I see. If you go back 3 months to the last geo-detective video, there is a folder on his PC called "Peak District 40 miler" and my guess is that this is the next mission. I might be totally wrong but it's always fun to guess
I didn’t get which skyscraper it was either, but like, I was almost yelling at my screen. The vibe of that city was super present, especially once you pointed on the markings on the floor. It was just so clear which city it is, it has such a distinct vibe
Haha For the first time in one of these videos I felt proud when I instantly guessed London (the Shard) but apparently everyone in the comments got it too. :D Great video as always Tom and I hope you keep doing these in between other adventures!
Melbunian here, love your work. Quick tip for the reverse image search - just cut the lamp out of the original photo instead of painting black lines of something different
Watching the 2nd one was so painful, having worked in the office building that it's next to and then he looked at it from the other side of the river as well. 😆
Drawing a streetlight was the most ingenious thing I've seen in a long while! Great idea. Can't wait for the next instalment, one of the best series, keep up the great work.
If you ever have another picture with a bridge on it it would be amazing if you could collab with fellow UA-camr RCE (Real Civil Engineer) on it 🙏🏻 he might know a couple things about bridges and buildings that could make this collab super interesting!
Wait, you gave them those names? Far out, I'll have to go back and watch the whole series again with this new knowledge. You learn something new every day.
15:54 This is the first one of these that I've actually recognised [I have double checked on google earth to make sure] [Spoilers below] 20:14: Scrolls right past a picture of the correct building from almost the correct angle.
So glad this is back. This where I discovered you and while I enjoy some of your other work it is Geo Detective that I love. Please please please, more Geo Detective!
That Norm Sipper round I recognized the shard almost immediately. I'm not even British! I just visited last year for one weekend. feels good to beat Tom for once!
I'm doing this to two of my friends that are in vacation in Europe... each time they post a photo on social media I find the exact place the photo was taken within a few minutes and they are freaking out. Lot of fun!
God I hope we get more of these soon. They are so good. I feel proud on the second one I thought "I think that's London" there is a building in Oklahoma city that is kinda similar but the meters told me it wasn't Oklahoma.
Tom you are unique, incredible at complicated remote detective work, but the only image you've had where I knew exactly where it was, you fumble around the globe drawing lamp posts!! Amazing! Keep it up, I love this series!
From the moment I saw the second photo I was screaming London, then gradually losing confidence as you ruled London out a few times.. Glad to be right at the end!
18:46 "It's not Toronto because there is no river". There are two rivers in Toronto: the Don and the Humber... As seen in the map he was looking at. Never change, Tom!
i didnt expect that the first video i click on while taking a break from studying for my bridge engineering subject was gonna be a video about you researching on bridges but here we are
When the shard picture popped up I got it literally as soon as my eyes set on it! We were at the shard at Christmas last year on a foggy day and walked across into that exact place as we wandered to the walkie talkie 😊 Great investigating!
Got the shard one almost instantly, even with the fog you could see the angle of the building, that combined with the short width of the river got it for me
This has really become my favourite part of your channel! It´s really amazing what you can find with the sort of time and dedication you put in. And, I think you do it a lot faster now as well with all the training you´ve got. Please continue doing this forever! One tip, though - whenever you find sites that you like as much as that one with the bridges - you might just be able to bookmark those. At least we can where I live, maybe it´s not the same all over the interweb ;)
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Tom: Staring directly at one of the most iconic skyscrapers in the world.
Also Tom: Drawing a streetlight on Paint.
To be honest these moments are what makes this channel special
@@devoarco Yeah. It's truely 'special'.
Yeah I was 90% sure that was the shard within 5 seconds lol no shade to Tom tough
well, if he knew it right off the bat, the video would have been short and boring.
Iconic to who? Is this universal?
never thought this would become one of my favorite series on this channel
You need a woman! lol.
immediate hit. and ignore that other commenter, I'm a woman, I'm here too.
@@SkuStyle did you really laugh out loud at your own dumb comment?
@@SkuStyle what does that even mean
@@SkuStyle You need a woman! lol.
i gotta say drawing a lamp on paint to reverse image search is the wildest and most creative idea ive ever seen
He could've just cropped the actual photo.
@@teliots He said in the video that broke his rules
@@jtparryheb he said google image search broke the rules but he used that anyway...
@@teliots Not sure why you're disagreeing about that. At 22:47 he says he can't Google image search the photo directly, but he can find something similar and then Google search that (or use Paint like he did)
@@teliots No, he didn't say that. He explained the rule perfectly clearly at 22:54. Listen again.
11:15. Tom loves this bridge so much he's been amazed by it 2 episodes in a row
Classic Tom😂
RCE will be proud 😂
@@larryfoulke1596 I was thinking about RCE with all of these bridges lately 😂
That shard one is the first time Ive ever known where a place was before Tom 😂
haha it was so funny when he put the streetview on the Queen's walk where the London Bridge Hospital is!
same !! looked it up right away and got so excited when i saw the gold facade.
Queue Mirrors Edge music.
Me too! I'm super proud and I can do nothing for the rest my week. Safe that I have achieved all I even need to.
I knew immediately from the 100m running track markings that are there
Tom, sees a tree: "That's North America"
Tom, sees the Shard: "Now let me draw this lamp"
For anyone wondering,
The word SENE stands for Society of Environmental Engineers, which is based in London
I really hate those abbreviations where they include the second letter of one of the words, like at least make it SENEN
@@ramsuporter8 true, or S.E.E.
@@hdb004 yeah SEE makes a lot more sense to me. 3 words excluding the "of", 3 letters.
@@ramsuporter8 when they do that in science and military applications it's usually just to get a cooler or more appropriate sounding acronym. Doesn't help with working out wtf it means without knowing beforehand though.
I'm 100% sure the "sene" is just graffiti /sticker bombing
I think one problem with searching for streetlights might be that those aren't necessarily streetlights associated with a city, but rather that they belong to a building or business park
I searched "black street lamp skyscraper" in Google images and it was the first result.
The fact that they are shaped exactly like a bowler hat should have been a good clue though.
Always a good day when we get more geo detective
It's been so long...
That username... Are you among the photo submitters?!
Play a record
19:25 the moment he lands LOOKING at the exact location of the photo without realising!!!!
When you looked at London the first time I recognized the building on the right in the picture. It was so frustrating watching you go through all these cities knowing you went so close from the answer.
I wondered about the Shard being the glass disappearing, but thought the brutalist building didn't make sense. Had a quick check, found it immediately, saw Tom look at the building from the other side of the river, then sat in pain for 10mins.
I immediately recognized the Shard. But I thought there is no way Tom doesn't recognize it. So I doubted myself thinking maybe it isn't the Shard.
I was screaming at him because I saw the two buildings! I think he had a moment where something deep in his brain recognized it bc he goes "oh" but then moves on LOL
He was right there on his first cock click in London. I was screaming at the screen too.
Word of advice: Google Maps does have 3D buildings. You just need to turn on "Globe view" in satellite imagery. If you hover over the "Layers" button and click "More," the checkbox for globe view will appear. Great video, as always!
Another tip ~ Yandex's reverse image search tends to be better than Google's
@@randyoram8268 Even google one found that bridge.
Wouldnt the best way to just use the web version of google earth? It has the same 3D imagery than the "globe view" in Maps, but its easier to control and rotate.
The 3D building view Tom uses in his desktop google earth looks even worse TBH, because it only highlights certain buildings in 3D
@@forel9573 maybe maps detect his computer as a slow one. Had such bug, couldn't open 3D maps no matter what I did for a couple months.
@@forel9573 Yea, but in that case he can just use his desktop app that he already has installed and is just quicker. Thing is when you search in google for stuff, ti will just link you to google maps. And in that case toggling the layers for the 3d buildings might be helpful for a quick look around.
Dude, I freaked out when you picked the EXACT SPOT, but across the river. I could tell by the horizontal building on the side with the glass building on the other side. I checked and there was the skyscraper with the white and "gold" building below it. I'm literally watching this having already found it, but only because you did and didn't realize it lol You're incredible and yet so not incredible simultaneously. It's incredible.
I caught it his first visit too, had to open up google maps on my second screen to double check. I just visited London last autumn and remembered that all glass building that's on the left of the picture, it was really cool and I even took pictures of it, so when I spotted the other building, the one with the distinct horizontal beams, on the other side of the river it was a dead giveaway.
Lol, I did the exact same thing. Anxious to see how long it will take him to figure it out.
Jesus Christ that was painful.
It's a great example of the usefulness of croudsourcing.
I actually love the last photo, and the way the “building” is shrouded in fog, and how the street path is isolated. Id have that framed in my room.
I want the first photo framed in my room
19:38 he was looking at the exact location, but did not see it. it pains me to watch him suffer with lampposts lol
As a Spokane native, I was convinced that the bridge was a different bridge in Spokane, so I did some of my own investigation before Tom just to find that it was not the right one. Imagine my surprise when it was a different Spokane bridge, the Monroe Street bridge! A British guy knows my home city better than me lol
@Chris Gonnella it’s probably why he tilted it the way he did, covering all other landmarks with either his head or the bridge. Very good foto imo.
I thought it was the Sunset Bridge at first as well, but at second glance I knew it was taken in Peacefull Valley because of the size of the river.
I haven’t even watched it yet but I saw the bridge in hi next video in the series and came here. I thought it was the Monroe street bridge but a mirrored image from his phone. It looks like he’s in the south side in the park they redid next to the dam.
Man, I am devastated. Bananus Hippledick is not real?!
Away from the long form adventure videos, I think this might be my favourite series on the channel. Awesome stuff.
18:54 "This could be London for all I know."
19:07 "Is that in London?!"
21:15 "Let me just check a couple more spots in London."
Lol, the second half was painful to watch in true Tom's fashion, I love it. I'm not even from the UK and upon seeing the silhouette of the skyscraper, I immediately thought "That's The Shard, innit?". So I went to Google Maps, looked at The Shard from the river in 3D view and confirmed that there's indeed that white and gold building. And right across it was that alley the photo was take from. Literally 15 seconds. Surely Tom will solve in a minute... *looks at how much time is left in the video* ...oh god, oh no.
Kudos to the person who submitted that photo, got Tom good.
The Tunkhannock Viaduct you stopped and said "wow" about is an amazing structure. It is the worlds largest concrete railroad bridge and it creates its own weather.
Wait, how does it create its own weather?
@@Carbon2861996 if you stand on it and piss down it will rain at the bottom of the bridge.
Sounds more like some kind of deity-like entity to me.
@@Carbon2861996just a guess it moisture probably collects on it then drips down like rain
I have been watching this channel since the first Mission across Wales attempt and I'm not geographical expert, but when I looked at the second picture and thought "I feel like that might be the Shard" on a whim, looked it up on Google Maps, put the marker down and it immediately lined up with the building in the foreground, I was kinda proud of myself :D
Same.
Exactly the same haha
This is so satisfying to watch. The amount of determination you have to find these obscure images is outstanding
Loved this video as always. As a Londoner, I instantly recognised London for the yellowish brick wharf building (the hospital) opposite and, strangely enough, the furthest street lamp. I thought Tom's strategy to look at the street lamp was a good one. I often think you can find the city just by looking at the type of street lights they use - sometimes they look generic but there is always something distinct if you look to the detail. But in the case of the picture in the video, it was actually not the lamps Tom was looking at that would have given a clue, but actually the furthest lamp in the photo, which is an iconic and heritage-protected design along the Thames in the centre. I recognise I'm biased by hindsight and local knowledge with this one, but if Tom went with his guess that it could be London, a search "lamp posts Thames" would have instantly returned a result which could encourage a closer look at London as an option!
Look forward to the next Geo Detective, and all the other content
It was great seeing Spokane in this series! The Pacific Northwest is truly beautiful.
As soon as he pressed into street view in London on 19:25, I was like THATS IT!! He had the mouse over the exact spot but spent 10 minutes drawing lights instead haha
These Geo Detective videos are the reason I subscribed to the channel, and whilst I love the Geoguessr content as well it's really great to see this series return.
Pro-tip: In your browser, you can drag highlighted text up to a blank space in the tab bar and it will do a Google search for that text in a new tab. This saves the steps of having to do Ctrl-C, opening a new tab, and then Ctrl-V.
I’ve only been to London once for a couple of days and even I knew where the second picture was taken the moment you pulled it up on the screen. It was so frustrating watching a Brit struggle to recognize The Shard and Thames riverfront…
That 2nd one, the first time you zoomed in I immediatly thought it was butlers wharf and paused to take a look, only took me a few mins to figure out that it was actually London hospital, just a few hundred meters away.
Continued watching and then laughed at loud when you out the man down on the wrong side of the river in a spot that was very likely in the frame of the photo and you looked directly at the spot where the photo was taken from
I like how he acts like we had no idea of his frivolous facade with the names
Damn, you have a lot of different avenues to this channel. I love all of the variety. Even if it is all relatively geography based, it's pretty awesome the types of original content you've amassed
this is the next level for your channel. putting a narrative, unfolding storyline on the geoguesser games
It's been so long! One of my favorite series!
The wait is over, finally more GeoDetective!
If this series has taught me anything it's that with enough time and resources you can pinpoint someones location from a photo
i was so sure that these candidates put in fun names and were in on the joke just to find out that all of the people in the series "pinpoint my shit and i will answer" dont have real names.
keep it up! i love it!
My favorite series of yours. Cheers Tom!!
killing it as always! never fails to make my day when geowizard uploads
Great to see this series again! I've just watched previous episodes. Hoping there won't be such big break this time.
You pulled up the first picture & I said to myself "Is that Spokane?"
It's strange seeing a place from my own neck of the woods coming up on a channel like this when so often the content is in far flung corners of the world
Regarding the second image, I've been there late last year on a business trip. First time in UK. Somehow it was my first thought when I saw the photo and it took me around 30sec to pinpoint the location (to 500m, didn't bother with exact alley). It was really funny to see a "local" to spend so long on that one :D
Geo Detective is the only content I watch from this channel, but it's among my favorite things to watch on YT
Great series, Tom. Well done.
Love this series mate keep doing em
I live in Spokane and when that first picture popped up I thought "That looks like the Monroe St Bridge I drive over all the time... no way, it can't be. The chances of that..."
Same!
That's definitively my preferred videos of yours. More fun than geoguesser.
This is such a great series. It would be cool if you were able to put the reference image "always on top" in a corner (like your video), so we can compare it to the other things you look at.
Great video, the detective series just over a year ago is what got me into Geoguessr in the first place, not so much the actual geoguessr content. Go figure! You have way more patience than I do, that's for sure. The "spaceship building" in Columbus you briefly mentioned is COSI (science museum), interesting that it was floating, it is most assuredly on the ground.
That was great acting, pretending not to recognize the shard and even showing us the photo location from the opposite side of the Thames without giggling! Well done!
Never in my life did I think I would take an interest in Open-spandrel deck arch bridges, but here we are
As soon as Tom originally plopped down on the river in London, I recognized the buildings the picture was taken between from across the river. Then he proceeded to draw a lamp post to reverse image search 😂
"If that building is the Shard, then this could conceivably be London."
The literal Monroe Street Bridge!! Always insane to see Spokane pop up in these kinds of things lol. You should visit the area sometime Tom, lots of diverse scenery and you might be able to do a straight line mission across the Idaho Panhandle 👀
Do not tell him that, he will get shot lol. The hills have eyes
26:52 I have a tip for you, which you probably already knew, just forgot. In the settings for Google Earth you can toggle between the modern 3D imagery they got now, and the legacy models they had in the past. It looks like you are stuck on the low detailed, older models. This can still be useful as some places haven't got modern 3D imagery, so this way you can see the old models and even ones users submitted back in the day.
Tom could pretty much qualify to be a bridge engineer at this point
I have never been to Spokane. When I saw the first picture I immediately thought "this is Spokane". Super proud of that actually.
The only thing I know Spokane from is the show Z Nation.
2:36 😮WHAT! My immersion is shattered!
There must be a word for the frustration of knowing where it is in the first few minutes (the Shard one) and then spending the next 15 mins watching Tom struggle with it!!
I have a suspicion of what Tom's next challenge will be, I love trying to figure out things from the file names I see. If you go back 3 months to the last geo-detective video, there is a folder on his PC called "Peak District 40 miler" and my guess is that this is the next mission. I might be totally wrong but it's always fun to guess
You're like, a geowizard-guessr
@@qtipextra Geo-speculator
Tom at the start: "im not too familiar with bridges".
Tom at 11:17 "i love bridges!"
Woo hoo! I paused at 16:37 suspecting it was the Shard and got it in 30 sec!!! "Get in!!!"
I didn’t get which skyscraper it was either, but like, I was almost yelling at my screen. The vibe of that city was super present, especially once you pointed on the markings on the floor. It was just so clear which city it is, it has such a distinct vibe
Haha For the first time in one of these videos I felt proud when I instantly guessed London (the Shard) but apparently everyone in the comments got it too. :D Great video as always Tom and I hope you keep doing these in between other adventures!
I thought those lampposts were inspired by the British Bowler hats and my first reaction was London!
Love Geodetective, my favorite series for sure
Melbunian here, love your work. Quick tip for the reverse image search - just cut the lamp out of the original photo instead of painting black lines of something different
I love this series. Thank you Tom.
Every piece of content released on this channel is a belter
Knew the London one straight away, been in that location many times over the years.
Yh I recognised London Bridge hospital straight away
lets gooo! new geowiz episode. This series was the first thing i ever saw from you and it is what got me into watching your channel. HUGE FAN!!
Watching the 2nd one was so painful, having worked in the office building that it's next to and then he looked at it from the other side of the river as well. 😆
Drawing a streetlight was the most ingenious thing I've seen in a long while! Great idea. Can't wait for the next instalment, one of the best series, keep up the great work.
YAY! Always my fave to watch
I love this series, hopefully you can start doing these more regularly again at one point. Thanks for the lovely content Tom!
If you ever have another picture with a bridge on it it would be amazing if you could collab with fellow UA-camr RCE (Real Civil Engineer) on it 🙏🏻 he might know a couple things about bridges and buildings that could make this collab super interesting!
One of my favorite series you do! Thanks for brining it back, I love it!!!!!!!!!!!
I was in complete and utter shock finding out there names were made up :o
Wait, you gave them those names? Far out, I'll have to go back and watch the whole series again with this new knowledge. You learn something new every day.
Tom you’re killing me, I found the second 1 in about 30 seconds!!
Always excited when a new GeoWizard video pops up, but extra excited for a new GeoDetective!!
15:54 This is the first one of these that I've actually recognised [I have double checked on google earth to make sure]
[Spoilers below]
20:14: Scrolls right past a picture of the correct building from almost the correct angle.
So glad this is back. This where I discovered you and while I enjoy some of your other work it is Geo Detective that I love. Please please please, more Geo Detective!
these are seriously so much fun. thanks for continuing the series.
That Norm Sipper round I recognized the shard almost immediately. I'm not even British! I just visited last year for one weekend. feels good to beat Tom for once!
You are way better at this than I will ever be, but I have to say I was slightly disappointed you didn't recognize the Shard.
I'm doing this to two of my friends that are in vacation in Europe... each time they post a photo on social media I find the exact place the photo was taken within a few minutes and they are freaking out. Lot of fun!
God I hope we get more of these soon. They are so good. I feel proud on the second one I thought "I think that's London" there is a building in Oklahoma city that is kinda similar but the meters told me it wasn't Oklahoma.
Tom you are unique, incredible at complicated remote detective work, but the only image you've had where I knew exactly where it was, you fumble around the globe drawing lamp posts!! Amazing! Keep it up, I love this series!
"If this is the shard it's conceivably London" - Great UA-cam understatements #362
The first video in this series is what brought me to your channel and I've been hooked (and subscribed) ever since. Keep up the good work!
You've done this just to boost our egos haven't you? I was so proud that I recognised the shard straight away. Another superb watch!
From the moment I saw the second photo I was screaming London, then gradually losing confidence as you ruled London out a few times.. Glad to be right at the end!
18:46 "It's not Toronto because there is no river". There are two rivers in Toronto: the Don and the Humber... As seen in the map he was looking at. Never change, Tom!
i didnt expect that the first video i click on while taking a break from studying for my bridge engineering subject was gonna be a video about you researching on bridges but here we are
Finally, Missed these series so much!
When the shard picture popped up I got it literally as soon as my eyes set on it! We were at the shard at Christmas last year on a foggy day and walked across into that exact place as we wandered to the walkie talkie 😊
Great investigating!
I subscribed a few days ago and loving the content that was some good detective work. Looking forward to watching more of your videos.
I am so glad you are continuing on with Geo Detective one of my favorites you do. Much love Rissy from Vancouver BC 🇨🇦
Got the shard one almost instantly, even with the fog you could see the angle of the building, that combined with the short width of the river got it for me
This has really become my favourite part of your channel! It´s really amazing what you can find with the sort of time and dedication you put in. And, I think you do it a lot faster now as well with all the training you´ve got. Please continue doing this forever!
One tip, though - whenever you find sites that you like as much as that one with the bridges - you might just be able to bookmark those. At least we can where I live, maybe it´s not the same all over the interweb ;)