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! Drop a like and subscribe so you don’t miss any Geoguessr or upcoming adventures…
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.
Gotta say, Tom not going too pro in Geoguessr is what makes his Geoguessr videos the best on RU-vid, 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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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! 🍺
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)
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.
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.
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).
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!
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.
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))
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.
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.
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.
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!
"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.
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!
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! ^^
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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😅
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 RU-vid anyway. Both would take a couple days at least, but still neither of them would be really dangerous or illegal.
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.
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