@@Thelaretus maybe the back side of the disc is centered on the south pole and you're in a totally different plane... Or even on a DIFFERENT DISC. Who's to say? I mean if we are going to be ridiculous we might as well go all the way
@@oisin3495" Actually, if you adjust the red line (which is the ball GPS reading) to the sphere shape of the Earth, you can clearly see that it went right into the goal, according to Bing imagery."
I tried this for over a decade now. Is one of the most difficult challenges out there. I still struggle to approach the traffic light and press the button without deviating.
Lmao I worked with a Jamaican dude called Stagga... I asked him why and he said "when mi leave the Crown & Cushion Dan sometimes mi nah walk too straight" lmao 😅
Thanks again to everyone who emailed or messaged me and helped me figure out both this issue, and the line success measurement issue. I truly have the best fans on UA-cam. You'll see the new measurement technique in action very soon once I have confirmed that it doesn't need tweaking. Much love, Tom
Hey Tom. Can you do a little test run of like 10 meters with the GPS Tracker and measure the line in real life and compare it to the measurement on the PC?
Just so you know, the Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren played your Norway trek on stream to 20k+ people the other day, he made thousands of people like the videos before starting them! A real cool gesture.
EDITED: Thanks to a few select folks who have messaged me informing me about the possible badly stitched / stretched imagery on google Earth which might explain the hiccups in Hauknes. There's a strong chance this IS still Platinum despite it looking like I actually went further south at the final big deviation. I think when we're trying to be this precise, we are at the mercy of the GPS signal and the imagery on google earth which isn't good. Perhaps this means that the platinum and gold zones need less attention, and instead we need to focus on the line rating score that I intend to fully reveal to you all soon (probably on the Scotland vid) OLD COMMENT: UPDATE: Having read a few of your comments, it does look like some of the readings in that last section in Hauknes, are wrong. You can clearly see that my "walked" line goes through houses when obviously I walked around them. The house to the east I walked to the north of, and the house to the west, the one with the big deviation, I walked to the south of. This means that in actual fact, I probably deviated more than 25 metres at this point. It was probably more like 30m. I was also closer to the goal on the football pitch. These wrong readings must be poor accuracy from the GPS system, which can be especially bad when running past houses and the like. The fact that some of these errors are north and some of them are south, means that it cannot be incorrect imagery overlay. There isn't much I can do about this other than invest in a better GPS system. Damn. I knew it was too good to be true. I shall keep this video up because the gist of it is true, but I can no longer safely declare that this was a Platinum run. Can we do so for any straight line? especially if it was recorded with a similar base level GPS system? I will explain these points in a future video.
There'll always be some uncertainty on the readings, that's why I think you should use the mean squared difference of the expected line and the walked line instead of the maximum deviation as a score, because in this way the uncertainties of each point average out and the uncertainty of the final score is a lot smaller
As a norwegian it’s so fun to see you give us so much attencion, I mean you’ve walked across our country in a straight line getting hundred thousands of views, and played geoguessr and got a perfect score in Norway. One of the reasons I have such a passion for you’re content.
I wish we could have seen a live reaction of Tom seeing the Google Earth alignment and realising it actually matched. "Oh my, oh my goodness. Look at this. I can't believe it. I am speechless. Well there you go. Hold on, am I recording? Oh yep, great. Well this just made my day, dare I say my week even?"
Glad to hear. Sometimes when a hypothesis is confusing/unintuitive it ends up being the right one-Occam’s razor is just a loose principle to follow. A lot of mathematics and physics needs to assume the spherical geometry of the earth to ensure that technologies like GPS work with high precision.
I wish flat Earthers would be confronted with niche stuff like this instead of all of the classic stuff they already have premade answers for. I imagine the vast majority of them would crumble.
Regarding the “goodness” of fit to a straight line, the statistical calculation you’re describing is called Sum of the Squared Errors (SSE). It is the most meaningful way to describe how well a path fits a line. SSE can be used it conjunction with other statistics to effect other meaningful descriptors, like R-squared, which gives a normalized number. R-Squared of 1 would be perfect correlation to the line.
@@MarceloTutoriais100 as the name implies, R-squared is the square of Pearson’s R. These are used more for modeling however. The SSE by itself is, I think, a good tool for what Tom is after. Think of SSE as adding up all the small deviations along the path to the true line, whether to the left or the right of the true line. And, because each deviation amount is squared, one is punished more for a single large variation than a few very small ones.
Hi @Scott George, interesting post, but I'm not sure that this is a statistical problem. I think the goal here is just to get a mathematical measure of the distance between the two lines. There's lots of distances that could be used, but IMO L2 (square root of sums of squared deviations) is less fair than just L1 (sum of absolute deviations). In both cases, I agree that normalizing by the distance of the lines is helpful like Tom says (i.e. dividing by length of the line). I think both are better than L\infty (i.e. maximum deviation). I'm interested in your thoughts.
I found my fully written email to Tom in my drafts folder yesterday. Was so annoyed at myself for failing to hit send after writing it out. Glad to know that so many people had already suggested the same ideas as I had that nothing was lost from it
I remember drawing your Wales 2 line on Google earth and I couldn't get it to perfectly line up with the exact start and end point and the houses in Cwmbelan. I think this is why! Great job 👍
Start at the coast by Elvenes Bru. Walk straight south. Should be at the Russia border within a couple hours' time. It might be easier to keep the line if starting at Jarfjordbotn, but the distance there is twice as long - about four kilometers. Russia horizontally might be a little more difficult, but possible if starting south of Vladivostok. I think he'd have to be extremely lucky not to be arrested as a spy given the ... slightly temperamental nature of the three countries whose borders he'd be walking up against, though.
I think your straight line missions are amazing. I realised how little I have ever veered off a path already laid down by other humans. I found even straight lining simple parks and other wilderness areas to be a massive eye opener to the amount of nature that we zoom past every day.
Well done! when I saw your last video, I did think that given it is a linear deviation (12m offset), it doesn't really impact on the 'straightness' of your line. AKA the path you were following is arbitrary and just a guide, the challenge is to cross in a straight line, not to adhere to some specific straight line. There are analytical methods which can determine your mean path (line of best fit) and the maximum deviation from that mean path which would more accurately describe the 'straightness' of your path!
Hey GeoWizard! Whilst reading the comments I just thought of a great video suggestion. You ask people to take of picture of their house /school/ street /whatever, send it to you along with the actual adress and you play Geoguessr with those pictures and you try and guess the location they sent. Apart from that, great job, and I'm so glad the line analysis turned out well😊
A pity about those shots! But huge congratulations on the challenge. I really enjoy these videos of you and they give me a different take on enjoying wilderness. Get in!!!
@@randomNpointless Just so happens to be some of the most difficult terrain you could pick to cross of course, most of it's a non-access protected area with the second-largest geyser basin and volcano system in the world. Would be absolutely gnarly to do
I've been thinking about this and it's probably impossible because we have no go zones stretching a few kilometers from every national border. U could walk there ofc but if u get seen by border patrol u could be in for a questioning. You could either start from a border crossing or you could cross sea to sea (black to caspian).
Congratulations for your platinum run! I got the idea, that you could make a "How not to travel Europe"-thing again, but this time with a new native from each country you are traveling through. That way, you could have a local "guide" and would presumably be able to make more challenges due to the extended knowledge of each culture or infrastructure or the like. I know it might be a little hard at the moment, considering COVID 19 and the like. I shall be the first to say, that I would happily be your companion in Denmark. I'm naturelover myself, a member of the Danish Scoutcorps, and have also always done projects like yours as straight line-missions and hitchhiking with little to know planning. Mainly just on a smaller scale, though If that would be of any interest, or if you just want another contact in a foreign country, you could just write below, and we can start a mailcorrespondence:))
Congrats dude! It is hard enough to pull off a straight line, but under 25 meters is absolutely bonkers! This also looks like a good learning experience, it seems as if each time you attempt these challenges you are able to work out more and more kinks. I'm excited to see how the next one goes.
Sounds like you are using a "Standard Deviation" formula going forward... WOOHOO! That was my suggestion that I emailed, but I am so glad someone had the technology to implement it. I really think that this will be the best way to judge a run going forward. Keep up the excellent work. My dream video suggestion to you? Straight line on the Equator. There is an island in Indonesia that looks PERFECT (0.000000, 127.889470 W) - 13.3 miles of jungley wilderness. I didn't check the terrain, but I'm sure there's another island close by, and smaller, if needed.
I am seriously so happy for you. I am in no way outdoorsy, but your line videos are just so interesting and entertaining. They are a true testament to perseverance. Well done!
Really curious about the formulas used. From what you said it sounds like applying a square function and then integrating over the curvy line in regards to the straight one. Which leaves me wondering about the possibilities of minimizing that integral by tweaking the line. Essentially trying to find the ideal linear representation of the curve. There are lots of interesting mathematical possibilities there so I am really looking forward to the website you teased there! Keep up the good work, cheers
Is the formula you were talking about at the end mean square error (MSE)? In statistics, that's a pretty standard measure of the accuracy of a line. We use it in machine learning algorithms to measure the accuracy of the algorithm. Like you said, it punishes the largest errors much more than the small ones.
I'm very excited about that tool you talk about for the grading of the staight line mission as i'm planning one with some friends. We'll be crossing the canton of neuchatel in switzerland in the sping. Thanks for all the good content!
Ohhhh very nice!! Do you have some insights somewhere on what you're planning? Would love to follow any updates as I'm from the canton of Aargau (argovie) :-)
If you were to ever do something like this in Poland, you should use geoportal. Its like a polish version of Google maps, except its done with low flying planes in a good weather (amazing image quality, Google earth doesnt even compare) and there are all kinds of informations, like detailed terrain maps, detailed land ownership etc etc. Also, I think that few other countries in Europe have something similiar, although I didnt check it yet
No worries about the time, mate! We are happy to wait until you are ready to give a proper answer. Congrats on getting platinum! It has been a great journey for us and even better for you, and now got even a great score! This idea is just amazing, and sharing it with us makes all of us so happy! Keep up the good stuff!
Can't wait for your Scotland trip mate, Love all your vids, i was in Cwm Belan the other day as I live in Aberystwyth and it always reminds me of when you were running through the poor Cwm Belan residents houses xD love it though man please keep doing those type of videos, and maybe, please, try and finish a straight line through wales and finish next to Aberystwyth like Rhydyfelin ? :D
hey i’ve been watching you since the first straight line challenge and one of my favorite, and big youtuber, Ludwig Ahgren, just shouted you out in his recent vid! keep up the good work
Congrats! Maybe now you could add an even higher tier like 'Diamond' and make it no more than 10 meters deviation. It would be super hard to get but that would be the point.
Hey, if the dude who created it is up for it, I think it would be really nice for some of us geo nerds to hear him talk about all the formulas and technology! Maybe you can do a feature or interview with him some time when the tool is done!
Congratulations, I felt you were not really happy after you finished knowing it was not a platinum run... wish you could have enjoyed your success a little more back in Norway! Keep up the great work.
A couple of months ago I spent a bit of time looking at possible straight lines across Scotland and couldn't really find any good way of dodging all the houses, motorways and railway lines. So I'm fascinated to see the route you take!
Amazing! Im actually excited to watch, and to be honest Ive not finished it yet as i wanted to ask about the house near the end at 8:54 , the "walked line" is clearly going through the house which you didnt do, so if you adjusted that line to actually be accurate to where you were walking in reality, would that put you beyond the 25m? Or did you walk the other side of the house actually nearer to the "walked line"?
Congratulations mate ! When you going to do Luxembourg, in the summer maybe if Covid improves ? Live not far from Luxembourg, would be great to see you there 😅
Awesome man, when you checked that clickbox I gave you a quiet clap from here in my apartment here in Canada. Love the work you've been doing and I am looking forward to many more straight line missions and the post mission reports on Google earths map ;)
Tom, learning is nothing to be embarrassed about and in no way makes you an idget! Thanks for taking everyone on the journey as you bone up on projections and how they fail, particularly at higher latitudes. #theworldisnotflat Love the content, thanks for doing what you do.
The new explanation totally makes sense to me. Congratulations :D (And you could of course also adust the starting point and the goal point to tweak the deviation in the desired direction)
Think bushfires are too big of a hazard. Plus not sure how protective people are about someone going over their fields or gardens, we dont want him to get shot. Plus you have desserts so cali may not be the ideal candidate
@@tnikoli40 SoCal is a desert, but he should be fine in the more northern(not Bay Area or Central Valley) parts of NorCal. Sparsely populated and beautiful. Also, if he goes now he can avoid the coming year round bushfires.
When you accidentally prove the earth is round by walking in a straight line
The flat earthers can finally hang up their boots. This is a historic day.
@@GeoWizard o7
Nooo, they just put in intentional bugs like this in their software, because they're in on it!
@@Thelaretus maybe the back side of the disc is centered on the south pole and you're in a totally different plane... Or even on a DIFFERENT DISC. Who's to say? I mean if we are going to be ridiculous we might as well go all the way
@@Thelaretus So what you're saying is that he needs to do a straight-line mission across New Zealand?
Next on GeoWizard: Tom realises he actually did score a goal near the end of his trip
Lol
Yeah it actually bounced off the cross bar and rolled into the other goal thanks to the pull of the North Pole
@@oisin3495 And thanks to Coriolis force!
@@oisin3495" Actually, if you adjust the red line (which is the ball GPS reading) to the sphere shape of the Earth, you can clearly see that it went right into the goal, according to Bing imagery."
BECKHAM!
get in
The chances of this being a platinum run are more than one in 7.5 trilion
Was not ready for this crossover lmao
@@lemao_squash4486 He couldn’t have achieved platinum without modifying the GPA readings
dream cheated
@@lukesaintloup2174 ok nobody cares?
Im going to attempt a straight line mission home from the pub, wish me luck.
Was your run cut short by the pandemic?
I tried this for over a decade now. Is one of the most difficult challenges out there. I still struggle to approach the traffic light and press the button without deviating.
The real challenge is a straight line from the pub back home
Lmao I worked with a Jamaican dude called Stagga... I asked him why and he said "when mi leave the Crown & Cushion Dan sometimes mi nah walk too straight" lmao 😅
@@Camberwell86 hahahah brilliant
Wait, you’re not the real Tom, you didn’t even check to see if you were recording
hhaha
wait how do you know that after just 7 min?
@@jakob_cubing 2x speed baby
I wonder how many times Tom says "Quick check I'm recording" that we never see because he isn't actually recording.
might have not said it because he actually forgot this time
Thanks again to everyone who emailed or messaged me and helped me figure out both this issue, and the line success measurement issue. I truly have the best fans on UA-cam. You'll see the new measurement technique in action very soon once I have confirmed that it doesn't need tweaking.
Much love, Tom
;D
So.... you gonna make a medal for verity or what?
Hey Tom. Can you do a little test run of like 10 meters with the GPS Tracker and measure the line in real life and compare it to the measurement on the PC?
Good job man, hope you cross more country’s
Tom, can you please drop your e-mail again for tips? I need to send you one.
Just so you know, the Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren played your Norway trek on stream to 20k+ people the other day, he made thousands of people like the videos before starting them! A real cool gesture.
Do you know if you could find a vod, or what day it was?
@Avery Shaw It was last night, for some reason UA-cam won’t let me post the link but it’s at 3 hours and 21 minutes
@@averyshaw2142 just search Ludwig vods and it’s the higher and lower video
Starts watching toms videos at around 2 hours in
Just a reaction andy stealing content
@@nofear7578 he made people like and once it hit a certain amount of likes then he’d watch it so he helped a lot
Can’t wait for Scotland
Is he doing a straight-line mission? I am outwith the know.
@@johnhall1962 Yeah Scotland’s the next straight line mission he’s doing. I think he’s doing it with the guy from the second Wales attempt
can't wait for him to do the whole world in 10 years
Can’t wait until he does Russia
Cant wait for magnum
EDITED: Thanks to a few select folks who have messaged me informing me about the possible badly stitched / stretched imagery on google Earth which might explain the hiccups in Hauknes. There's a strong chance this IS still Platinum despite it looking like I actually went further south at the final big deviation. I think when we're trying to be this precise, we are at the mercy of the GPS signal and the imagery on google earth which isn't good. Perhaps this means that the platinum and gold zones need less attention, and instead we need to focus on the line rating score that I intend to fully reveal to you all soon (probably on the Scotland vid)
OLD COMMENT:
UPDATE: Having read a few of your comments, it does look like some of the readings in that last section in Hauknes, are wrong. You can clearly see that my "walked" line goes through houses when obviously I walked around them. The house to the east I walked to the north of, and the house to the west, the one with the big deviation, I walked to the south of. This means that in actual fact, I probably deviated more than 25 metres at this point. It was probably more like 30m. I was also closer to the goal on the football pitch. These wrong readings must be poor accuracy from the GPS system, which can be especially bad when running past houses and the like. The fact that some of these errors are north and some of them are south, means that it cannot be incorrect imagery overlay. There isn't much I can do about this other than invest in a better GPS system. Damn. I knew it was too good to be true. I shall keep this video up because the gist of it is true, but I can no longer safely declare that this was a Platinum run. Can we do so for any straight line? especially if it was recorded with a similar base level GPS system? I will explain these points in a future video.
just do the whole equator.
There'll always be some uncertainty on the readings, that's why I think you should use the mean squared difference of the expected line and the walked line instead of the maximum deviation as a score, because in this way the uncertainties of each point average out and the uncertainty of the final score is a lot smaller
Pin this to the top.
Cut yourself some slack :)
Having watched every straight line video for the first time over the weekend, I for one am very happy for you.
Tom you’re a platinum youtuber, and regardless of what conclusion you come to it was a stunning effort
Is he trying out some sort of new effect for his videos? Why is he a floating head?
🤣🤣💯💯
Took me a solid 30 seconds to get it lmao
if he didn't have hair he would blend in to the roof too
underrated comment
He is a floating head with headphones*
Glad my email could come in handy (even if 100s of other people probably wrote the same thing). Great work Tom, 100% platinum rate for completed runs
*I want recognition*
@@Willy_Wanka I recognize you
@@Willy_Wanka mm yea why not, i recognize you too!
@@BambooTime thank you sir
What’s his email address?
As a norwegian it’s so fun to see you give us so much attencion, I mean you’ve walked across our country in a straight line getting hundred thousands of views, and played geoguessr and got a perfect score in Norway. One of the reasons I have such a passion for you’re content.
Exactly so much skill!
It hurts for a swed
😅
@@miguelthehim and as a Finn. You 2 always get the attention
@@kukkosoosi2298 Well in Finland, all you have is Bears and Perkele. It attracts a niche crowd.
I wish we could have seen a live reaction of Tom seeing the Google Earth alignment and realising it actually matched. "Oh my, oh my goodness. Look at this. I can't believe it. I am speechless. Well there you go. Hold on, am I recording? Oh yep, great. Well this just made my day, dare I say my week even?"
Spot on🤣
More like ten seconds silence and then "what's happened here then... Have I won? Hold on a minute."
@@skitstroppo Lol yeah forgot that part
@@bellini9374 And obviously "Get in!" :D
Maybe he was planning a live reaction but turns out he wasn’t recording
I love how he's wearing his military jacket even though he's at home
Tom is always ready for a tactical situation.
what jacket..?
Looks at myself wearing an authentic 1970 US army coat...
@@akshat9282 Yeah i don't know what they are talking about either, it was just his head floating in the middle of his room, am i right?
Still no gloves though
AYYY CONGRATULATIONS!!! That's great! Glad to see!
15 minutes ago🤣
How did you comment 15 minutes ago?
15 min ago
Ok makes sense
how did you comment before the video uploaded
Seeing those lines match up beautifully is so satisfying!
As a hardcore lifelong flat earther, I have now been converted
Congrats
Glad to hear. Sometimes when a hypothesis is confusing/unintuitive it ends up being the right one-Occam’s razor is just a loose principle to follow. A lot of mathematics and physics needs to assume the spherical geometry of the earth to ensure that technologies like GPS work with high precision.
@@bobbysanchez6308 irony is just lost on some people isn't it
"that was a result of me being naff at this sort of stuff" talk about humility, he's the only person in the world to of even done this
to have done
to be fair, he was talking about GIS stuff not straight line missioning.
Congratulations! Funny how you also proved the Earth is round at the same time.
I wish flat Earthers would be confronted with niche stuff like this instead of all of the classic stuff they already have premade answers for. I imagine the vast majority of them would crumble.
No no google faked that😂
So you confirmed the earth is round with a straight line? Sounds sus...
Funnily enough Eratosthenes also walked in a straight line to prove the Earth was round (and find its circumference)
What? If the earth was round he would fall out into space..
Regarding the “goodness” of fit to a straight line, the statistical calculation you’re describing is called Sum of the Squared Errors (SSE). It is the most meaningful way to describe how well a path fits a line. SSE can be used it conjunction with other statistics to effect other meaningful descriptors, like R-squared, which gives a normalized number. R-Squared of 1 would be perfect correlation to the line.
This R-squared number is also known as Pearson's correlation coefficient?
Understood nothing, but very interesting
@@MarceloTutoriais100 as the name implies, R-squared is the square of Pearson’s R. These are used more for modeling however. The SSE by itself is, I think, a good tool for what Tom is after. Think of SSE as adding up all the small deviations along the path to the true line, whether to the left or the right of the true line. And, because each deviation amount is squared, one is punished more for a single large variation than a few very small ones.
Hi @Scott George, interesting post, but I'm not sure that this is a statistical problem. I think the goal here is just to get a mathematical measure of the distance between the two lines. There's lots of distances that could be used, but IMO L2 (square root of sums of squared deviations) is less fair than just L1 (sum of absolute deviations). In both cases, I agree that normalizing by the distance of the lines is helpful like Tom says (i.e. dividing by length of the line). I think both are better than L\infty (i.e. maximum deviation). I'm interested in your thoughts.
I found my fully written email to Tom in my drafts folder yesterday. Was so annoyed at myself for failing to hit send after writing it out. Glad to know that so many people had already suggested the same ideas as I had that nothing was lost from it
Can you explain to me what this platinum stuff means I’m so confused
@@hejabvb19 it’s a platinum run if he deviates from the line by less than 25 metres
Congratulations!! That was insane. The amount of effort you do for us to enjoy in the confort of our house is absolutely phenonenal!!
Yes, well done Tom!
I remember drawing your Wales 2 line on Google earth and I couldn't get it to perfectly line up with the exact start and end point and the houses in Cwmbelan. I think this is why! Great job 👍
When are you going to do Norway south to north? ;)
Or Chile?
Russia horizontally
Start at the coast by Elvenes Bru. Walk straight south. Should be at the Russia border within a couple hours' time. It might be easier to keep the line if starting at Jarfjordbotn, but the distance there is twice as long - about four kilometers.
Russia horizontally might be a little more difficult, but possible if starting south of Vladivostok. I think he'd have to be extremely lucky not to be arrested as a spy given the ... slightly temperamental nature of the three countries whose borders he'd be walking up against, though.
@@loose_moose Easy. Walk towards the eastern sea from the Chinese border near Vladivostok.
@Gizio the Jackal You probably mean Kaliningrad.
I think your straight line missions are amazing. I realised how little I have ever veered off a path already laid down by other humans. I found even straight lining simple parks and other wilderness areas to be a massive eye opener to the amount of nature that we zoom past every day.
Well done! when I saw your last video, I did think that given it is a linear deviation (12m offset), it doesn't really impact on the 'straightness' of your line. AKA the path you were following is arbitrary and just a guide, the challenge is to cross in a straight line, not to adhere to some specific straight line. There are analytical methods which can determine your mean path (line of best fit) and the maximum deviation from that mean path which would more accurately describe the 'straightness' of your path!
This is how many people are looking forward to Scotland 2021
Hey GeoWizard! Whilst reading the comments I just thought of a great video suggestion. You ask people to take of picture of their house /school/ street /whatever, send it to you along with the actual adress and you play Geoguessr with those pictures and you try and guess the location they sent.
Apart from that, great job, and I'm so glad the line analysis turned out well😊
without being his intention, he proved Earth is round instead of flat lmao
No, he proved how gullible his audience is.
Awesome, congrats! Can't wait for you to crush the Scotland mission as well!
Absolutely stellar. Can't wait for the sequel ;)
You know you’ve latched onto the right UA-camr when they experience success and DROP their patreon 👌🏻
YES MATE! Well done, that was a bloody good effort, super excited for Scotland!
A pity about those shots! But huge congratulations on the challenge. I really enjoy these videos of you and they give me a different take on enjoying wilderness. Get in!!!
1:51 Shoutout to Verity!
love how you wear the jacket inside of your flat because thats what i always did as a kid when i had cool new outdoor clothing
Cant wait for your "Walking a Straight Line Through Russia" video 😁
Kaliningrad oblast
@@ArcadiaTurnips Lol how did I not think of that. Wouldn't mind seeing a video of that.
@@randomNpointless Just so happens to be some of the most difficult terrain you could pick to cross of course, most of it's a non-access protected area with the second-largest geyser basin and volcano system in the world. Would be absolutely gnarly to do
2030: Geowizards 60-part series about his 3 years going in a straight line through the russian wilderness.
I've been thinking about this and it's probably impossible because we have no go zones stretching a few kilometers from every national border. U could walk there ofc but if u get seen by border patrol u could be in for a questioning. You could either start from a border crossing or you could cross sea to sea (black to caspian).
When I read this I heard Tom's voice saying "get in" in my head
Congratulations for your platinum run!
I got the idea, that you could make a "How not to travel Europe"-thing again, but this time with a new native from each country you are traveling through. That way, you could have a local "guide" and would presumably be able to make more challenges due to the extended knowledge of each culture or infrastructure or the like.
I know it might be a little hard at the moment, considering COVID 19 and the like.
I shall be the first to say, that I would happily be your companion in Denmark. I'm naturelover myself, a member of the Danish Scoutcorps, and have also always done projects like yours as straight line-missions and hitchhiking with little to know planning. Mainly just on a smaller scale, though
If that would be of any interest, or if you just want another contact in a foreign country, you could just write below, and we can start a mailcorrespondence:))
Congrats dude! It is hard enough to pull off a straight line, but under 25 meters is absolutely bonkers! This also looks like a good learning experience, it seems as if each time you attempt these challenges you are able to work out more and more kinks. I'm excited to see how the next one goes.
Can’t wait for the straight line across Antarctica!
Sounds like you are using a "Standard Deviation" formula going forward... WOOHOO! That was my suggestion that I emailed, but I am so glad someone had the technology to implement it. I really think that this will be the best way to judge a run going forward. Keep up the excellent work.
My dream video suggestion to you? Straight line on the Equator. There is an island in Indonesia that looks PERFECT (0.000000, 127.889470 W) - 13.3 miles of jungley wilderness. I didn't check the terrain, but I'm sure there's another island close by, and smaller, if needed.
One of the best UA-camrs out there! Congrats! Keep it up!
An idea for a walk: you start at sunrise and you can only walk towards the sun until sunset.
Would be fun in northern europe
Really want to see that Scotland line!
Congratulations, Tom and team! The series was awesome and your dedication to have it be accurate is great too. So cool 😎👍
Only 23 meters of deviation at most.
That is crazy. Platinum deserved!
Which given how horrific those cliff drops were is extraordinary.
Worth every metre he used to do it safely.
I am seriously so happy for you. I am in no way outdoorsy, but your line videos are just so interesting and entertaining. They are a true testament to perseverance. Well done!
Really curious about the formulas used. From what you said it sounds like applying a square function and then integrating over the curvy line in regards to the straight one. Which leaves me wondering about the possibilities of minimizing that integral by tweaking the line. Essentially trying to find the ideal linear representation of the curve. There are lots of interesting mathematical possibilities there so I am really looking forward to the website you teased there! Keep up the good work, cheers
Wow this is fantastic news! Congratulations and great job! Here’s to more success in the future!
this makes me even more excited for scotland next, congrats Tom!
Ikr
Is the formula you were talking about at the end mean square error (MSE)? In statistics, that's a pretty standard measure of the accuracy of a line.
We use it in machine learning algorithms to measure the accuracy of the algorithm. Like you said, it punishes the largest errors much more than the small ones.
Hi I’m a sub from ludwig and I would like to say keep it up you’re doing great in geo guesser and a true gamer in its own field and passion
So happy for you, that you found out what the issue was and that it is actually platinum! :)
Nice! I am from Norway so it was fun to see u make it!
thats so cool, congratulations man, love the channel and series!
Deserves a platinum after crossing those sinking bogs!! You were truly lucky.. 🍀 I'm from Norway and could barely watch 🙈
I'm very excited about that tool you talk about for the grading of the staight line mission as i'm planning one with some friends. We'll be crossing the canton of neuchatel in switzerland in the sping. Thanks for all the good content!
Ohhhh very nice!! Do you have some insights somewhere on what you're planning? Would love to follow any updates as I'm from the canton of Aargau (argovie) :-)
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mate I'm so happy for you rn. It's so great to see how happy you are about the sudden upgraded success of the Norway mission!
Tom when he actually crushes the straight line mission: “I won?!.....how have I won?”
If you were to ever do something like this in Poland, you should use geoportal. Its like a polish version of Google maps, except its done with low flying planes in a good weather (amazing image quality, Google earth doesnt even compare) and there are all kinds of informations, like detailed terrain maps, detailed land ownership etc etc. Also, I think that few other countries in Europe have something similiar, although I didnt check it yet
Congrats! Can’t wait for Scotland adventure 😄.
thats pretty impressive: you've walked so far that the curvature of the earth influences the outcome of your mission. Respect for that one
13:24 damn Norway is smaller than I thought
Well obviously, it is one of the slimmest part of the country
Yeah Norway is 19 meters long
Norways only a few inches long on my screen
I'm surprised how much content he was able to squeeze out of these few meters. :O
Norway is at least 3 miles wide.
No worries about the time, mate! We are happy to wait until you are ready to give a proper answer. Congrats on getting platinum! It has been a great journey for us and even better for you, and now got even a great score! This idea is just amazing, and sharing it with us makes all of us so happy! Keep up the good stuff!
Can't wait for your Scotland trip mate, Love all your vids, i was in Cwm Belan the other day as I live in Aberystwyth and it always reminds me of when you were running through the poor Cwm Belan residents houses xD love it though man please keep doing those type of videos, and maybe, please, try and finish a straight line through wales and finish next to Aberystwyth like Rhydyfelin ? :D
hey i’ve been watching you since the first straight line challenge and one of my favorite, and big youtuber, Ludwig Ahgren, just shouted you out in his recent vid! keep up the good work
Congrats!
Maybe now you could add an even higher tier like 'Diamond' and make it no more than 10 meters deviation. It would be super hard to get but that would be the point.
Might be an idea, but at 10 m the accuracy of the GPS might be an issue
I'm thinking to do a straight line challenge myself. Would you watch me
Thank goodness, I knew you did great on the mission! Glad you figured this problem out with help from the community
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Tom: “I’m a very happy man”
Also Tom: says it with the straightest face ever
This has been the best news I’ve seen today! The straight line missions are some of my favorite videos on YT
Omg its just a head flowing there! Btw congraz on the platinum, it was fun to watch the show and someday we might see another straight line mission!
Scotland this year
Hey, if the dude who created it is up for it, I think it would be really nice for some of us geo nerds to hear him talk about all the formulas and technology! Maybe you can do a feature or interview with him some time when the tool is done!
13:27 Norway is definitely under 19 meters long yup
Kilometers
@@N_Wheeler wales line was in miles.
Congratulations, I felt you were not really happy after you finished knowing it was not a platinum run... wish you could have enjoyed your success a little more back in Norway! Keep up the great work.
Geoguessur king is here with another interesting video
Congrats, a popular Twitch streamer reacted to your content. Should give you some well deserved channel traffic. Keep up the great content 👍
So happy for you! Cheers!
A couple of months ago I spent a bit of time looking at possible straight lines across Scotland and couldn't really find any good way of dodging all the houses, motorways and railway lines. So I'm fascinated to see the route you take!
Amazing! Im actually excited to watch, and to be honest Ive not finished it yet as i wanted to ask about the house near the end at 8:54 , the "walked line" is clearly going through the house which you didnt do, so if you adjusted that line to actually be accurate to where you were walking in reality, would that put you beyond the 25m? Or did you walk the other side of the house actually nearer to the "walked line"?
Awesome mate! Best of luck up here in Scotland 👍
Congratulations mate ! When you going to do Luxembourg, in the summer maybe if Covid improves ? Live not far from Luxembourg, would be great to see you there 😅
Yeah Luxembourg would be amazing for straight line mission. Beautiful country and small enough to pick and choose a line
@@StefandeJong1 I want to do that one day, as I live in Lux. Will be challenging!
I am thinking about doing that
Hook our boy up with some transport 😘
@@CratesOfPlates Public transport is free and you can basically get everywhere by bus or train :D
Awesome man, when you checked that clickbox I gave you a quiet clap from here in my apartment here in Canada. Love the work you've been doing and I am looking forward to many more straight line missions and the post mission reports on Google earths map ;)
That was damn interesting. GPS data being interpreted on different map projections. Seems like a failing of the Garmin Basecamp software, no?
Well done on your platinum run! 🥳
8:24 Going to add "wangle" to my vocabulary, that's a new word to me!
Fantastic news, congratulations on the platinum!
Dude, awesome! can't help but notice that you seem to be torso-less in the video, is something up with your greenscreen?
Tom, learning is nothing to be embarrassed about and in no way makes you an idget! Thanks for taking everyone on the journey as you bone up on projections and how they fail, particularly at higher latitudes. #theworldisnotflat Love the content, thanks for doing what you do.
Youre doing Scotland next? Legend!
He actually planned Scotland for March 2020, but because of Corona and the lockdown he did Wales Part 2
@@lukaskurtscheidt1794 not true
The new explanation totally makes sense to me. Congratulations :D (And you could of course also adust the starting point and the goal point to tweak the deviation in the desired direction)
HELL YEAH THE PLATINUM DREAM IS TRUE
Buzzing for you mate, cant wait to see what's next!
You should do California, that would be long but amazing! You'd see so many different terrains and geographies.
Think bushfires are too big of a hazard. Plus not sure how protective people are about someone going over their fields or gardens, we dont want him to get shot. Plus you have desserts so cali may not be the ideal candidate
@@tnikoli40 SoCal is a desert, but he should be fine in the more northern(not Bay Area or Central Valley) parts of NorCal. Sparsely populated and beautiful.
Also, if he goes now he can avoid the coming year round bushfires.
I love how genuine you are mate
US state in a straight line without getting shot
let us be realistic, give him 3 lives, if he's hit a 4th he's out
Lmao he could do a Northwestern state like Oregon and be fine. It might need to wear a bright vest if it's hunting season
He should walk one of the straight line state borders in the US! There are plenty to choose from.
Middle east in a straight line without getting blown up
Cheers on the platinum, Tom! Well done!
Tom discovers the earth is a sphere.
Congratulations, retroactively!
The new scoring system sounds great, too; looking forward to seeing it in action.