Geoguessr - An Urban World - No moving around #12 - You don't want to miss this [PLAY ALONG] 

Disneyland Paris: I'm about to end this man's whole career. Geoguessr Wizard: I think we're in Italy. Disneyland Paris: Sacré bleu!

"i don't even know if I'm in Bolivia or Peru" *randomly zoomes in the exact city you're looking for*

RX meant medical prescription on that van

That Disneyland Paris sign would have ruined me if I saw that before I saw any of words that were obviously Italian

I found a good Geoguessr map called "A Complete World." It has every country in the world on it, even though a few are just photo spheres. Maybe it could be the next "10 Country Challenge" or 5 country challenge as it's a lot harder and quite a few are misleading due to the fact it has a lot of obscure countries on it :)

For Vancouver it's easy if you see EVO car sharing cars, they're only there.

Great job in Iceland man. I am desperate to get a 25k no moving on Urban World but you just need a really lucky seed (like 1 in 1000)

The last one SCREAMED of Vancouver. The sunny & dry summer climate, EVO car share, blue lettering on license plates, street sign style at the junction, architecture, even the gardening style. Too bad you got a very generic street. Awesome work on that Peru one & Reykjavik was just cheeky!

My hometown was the last round!! I saw the location and immediately knew where it was. Easy 5000 points

My round: 1) Easy, Sydney. proceed to spend way too long focusing in on the hospital which I didn't find. Placed randomly in East Sydney and got 4998, not bad. 2) Clearly italy. Northern? Bologna idk, did okay 4331. 3) Looks like La Paz to me? Scanned around a bit but didn't want to spend too much time, placed randomly in La Paz, turns out to be Peru but fairly close 4289. Not bad. 4) Iceland, I pretty much did the exact same thing as you. Found graffafu..gur or whatever and placed a rough estimate. Managed to get the 5k, probably my best guess ever! I think not trying to get it perfectly actually helped me in this case. 5) No clue. Felt like northern US so went in Portland, kinda happy tbh. 3,677. Ended up with a record score(for this format) of 22,295. great stuff loved the vid!

Just wanted to give you a heads up, “Rx” signifies prescription drugs/pharmaceuticals

Im icelandic. Saw in 0.5sec where you were. Good job mate

Your work on the Peru and Iceland rounds were fucking amazing dude. I'm impressed

In round 5, the Evo car had a .ca website on the back. Not that I can talk, I only got around 14700, with most coming from Sydney and Reykjavik which were pretty much freebies

having grown up in vancouver, i actually screamed at the TV when i saw the 604 area code. just remember 604 and 778 are vancouver area codes, and 250 is the rest of BC better luck next time :(

Last round was absolutely devastating, I was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole video, great stuff.

I think if he learned phone number area codes in the US it would give him a huge advantage.

Round 5, sky blue licence plates are British Columbia. The area code on the car is the same as my area code in west BC. This looks like North Vancouver to me but I'm not certain. EDIT: I KNEW IT! What a sad ending though.

I thought the Davies van was a sign from the geo gods that you were gonna make it 😔

Holy shit, the 5th round is my city. The ℞ or RX is just a symbol meaning prescription, which made sense because its a health care van. Our plates have a white background and blue print, the yellow you saw was just a registration decal sticker. Evo Car Share is a car sharing service in Vancouver.

Anyone else watch this from Vancouver absolutely SCREAMING AT THE SCREEN? For me, even before I saw the Evos and the 604s, that particular 1970s West Coast apartment design combined with the tone of the sunlight nailed it. I guess a panorama with the mountains showing would have been too easy for this game.

Yes! I landed right in that Milan place a few days ago. I must say I was absolutely hypnotized on how beautiful that place and its surroundings are.

all the vancouverites shouting at the last one hahaha. If only he knew the 604 area code and EVO cars

There was a sign confirming Peru you missed but it didn't matter

RX = prescription, like for pills from a pharmacy.

First :) Got number 2 in 10 seconds, I've walked past this place so many times in my life, a very popular spot in Milan.

In America RX is used in place of “prescription” so that Van was a medical van and had nothing to do with the city. Just a little tip for the future. Love the videos!

Me, a Vancouverite watching the last round: :')

Hey could you please make more perfect score videos, like you did for UK, Spain, Netherlands. There are still so many interesting countries you could try to get 25000. They are my favourite videos on your channel.

one of your best mr wizard. remarkable work, congrats

That's weird, I just did this map and the Milan I got was from a different year, there were ads for the 2015 world expo which I went to it so I knew it was Milan. edit: also got a different peru in which I could see different signs, they must change it a lot edit: thats crazy i won, I got all the cities right as well until peru but was close and then I guessed portland for the last one and got lucky, and even with no perfect scores I beat you hahah, sorry, nobody cares probably, well played though

I watch his vids especially at night because his voice is so soothing lol

It's sad that the challenge link doesn't work properly anymore. I got put into a hotel room overseeing the road Geowizard was placed at in the first round. There was a partial view of the opera so I was still able to get a good guess (4,995/1.4km)

6:00 in this one the picture has been updated and there's a bus that says "AFRICA" in big letters so I got 9 points because I put it in Cape Town

Holy. Shit. Insane 3rd and 4th guesses!

I think you need to memorize area codes - 604 covers southwest British Columbia. Other codes cover from parts of a city to whole US states and Canadian territories/provinces.

thats crazy I knew the last one almost right away, saw the EVO and old folks homes lol

I'm playing these a few years later and the photospheres have been updated. Sydney was in a hotel room overlooking the opera house. I wonder how the matching algorithm works.

It's crazy to think that I live just down the street of the road you were at in Sydney. Mental!

Got my first perfect score with this one 😇Only got the last one cause I had just gotten a call from the 604 area code and knew it was vancouver

Playing this in 2021: the first location is in a hotel room!?

Some clues you were in Vancouver: - cedar trees are almost always a West coast feature - wide streets are also a West coast thing - Americans hate the words "Lord" and "Manor" - the view of the sea to the west - mountains Everything up to Vancouver was brilliant! Loving the channel.

I think learning phone number area codes could prove much more valuable than trying to memorize license plates. Many vans and signs have phone numbers on them and in the last one, the 604 gave away British Columbia.

Round 1: Apparently Sidney has more than one road called William st. so it threw me off a little bit but ended finding it after a while. 5000 points. Round 2: Big city with Metro. Convinced myself early on that we were in Napoli because of the Zurich stamp on the post. Napoli played against Zurich FC very recently for Europa League. I did a quick search in all the other cities with metros, but the metro station name didn't correlate with anything on that place so after looking a lot i just settled with somewhere in Napoli. Could've find it if i had associated it with North Italy :( 3129 points. Round 3: Thought we were in Peru as well. Also found the other "Tacna" in the complete opposite direction, curiously. After looking a lot, ended up going with Ayacucho, as every road there started with "Jr." and the mountains kinda correlated, despite not finding the road. 3404 points. Round 4: Also went for around Reykjavik, was already frustated as well, just went in a random road, didn't bother too much to look where we were exactly. 4980 points. Round 5: Clicked in Portland. 3699 points. Total: 20212 points

Would it be worth it to study area codes for phone numbers for Canada and the United States? Or just generally reviewing the major cities in case it helps in a round like Vancouver where they had the 604 area code on the car

I gave up after the second round, can't fight with the Wizard :)

1. I actually ended up in a hotel room overlooking the Opera, which was quite surprising. Yay for playing ages later I guess. 4999 points because it was a weird location and I couldn't really judge where the actual location was. 2. Changed images as well, had a poster that mentioned Milan, but finding the actual place took a while. Mostly looked for Metro stations in combination with the junction layout. 5000 points. 3. I guessed further in the south, annoyingly the changed image actually had the city name on it, but with the language I wasn't sure which one would have been a place name. If I had been as sure about Peru as you were, maybe I could have made the connection. 672 points. 4. Looked mainly in the biggest city since everything else didn't seem big enough, the updated map had the name of one of the advertisements on it, so that helped. 5000 points. 5. Not much to go on, clicked somewhere in the US. 742 points. Well done on Peru in particular, that was quite some intuition and dedication on your part.

on the vancouver one I figured it was vancouver because it was similar to videos i've seen in vancouver, but I was stuck on East 12th Avenue and didnt take the time to look north for East 12 street. could've def been a perfect round along with perfect on the first sydney round but was too lazy with it ahah.

RX generally means pharmacy, but sometimes it can more broadly mean healthcare in general. When I saw the phone number on the van with the 604 prefix I was screaming "Vancouver!" at my monitor but obviously you didn't hear me. I'll try louder next time. Maybe when you're done with license plates you can move on to telephone area codes! Kidding (sort of) as there are hundreds of them throughout North America. But it might be worth adding that to your list of things to pay attention to and keep track of, as its very common for commercial vehicles and buildings over here to have phone numbers written on them. Some prefixes like 800-, 855-, 866-, 877-, and 888- aren't area specific but most are.

Tom reading Español is just so hilarious 😂

Yes - I got 25000 on this! Imagery has apparently changed in the meantime: #1 similar imagery, was easy to locate with hospital (was labelled on my map) and other signs #2 different-looking imagery, said San Siro on a sign that is also in the video I think, not hard to pinpoint then using #3 got a different image, said Puno on some half-torn posters and on an ambulance, but only "... Puerto" street sign visible - still not hard to locate in Puno [which I have actually visited, but not that particular spot] #4 different imagery, could vaguely make out 1 and 49 on road indicators and then found Isold on the map too #5 different image, but same sign visible (no phone numbers though) - very hard for me, but sloping to the west and faintly seeing a distant body of water there plus the vegetation made me think that this has to be Vancouver or Seattle, but then I could not find East 12th Street in either, so I also looked in Portland, Vancouver, WA, Everett and other places - was about to give up when I eventually found the street more by chance in North Vancouver rather than downtown Vancouver.

I zoomed in Sydney straight onto William street, I was set

Two things about that first Sydney one: The East Sydney Private Hospital didn't come up on maps because it's not a practising hospital, they just kept the sign there (for historical reasons?) and include that spot in the round because that would've been a big bumsteer for many people. The Wolper Jewish Hospital isn't only for Jewish people :)

Rx means prescription. It's a pharmacy van dropping off medication. Pharmacists and doctors in the UK use 'rx' but it's generally unknown by UK patients unlike USA and Canada where it seems to be more widespread. So gutted about that last round. Can't believe my heart would start racing for a geoguessr challenge. Can't wait for the next no moving!

uhhhhhhhhhhh thats weird seeing your house on the map as he zooms in . . . .

Vermont might be one of the only states that doesnt have a suburban street that looks like that.

The BC plate was what gave Vancouver away for me. The blue lettering really stands out, and the yellow you saw must have been the yearly registration tag. On the other hand that Icelandic guess was incredible. I swear I spent an hour scrolling Reykjavik to no avail...

So the first round has changed and now puts you in a hotel room.

Man, I was playing along, and I was so frustrated that you were getting a perfect score in all of them. In the last round, you got that very wrong one, and I ended up winning you overall. I feel like that was so unfair, cause the Milan one I went for Paris... *my username is Mattosmarcoaurelio

I guessed Sydney in my head only from looking at the first frame, I was shocked when it actually was

I was so sad when you said you were gonna guess Vermont. You haven't learned the plate yet, but it's all green. definitely one of the most distinctive plates.

You could have gotten the last one! No USA flags could indicate Canada, and looking for numbered streets in major Canadian cities could have landed you in Vancouver. Anyway, a great game!

Love playing along with these but its frustrating when the images I see aren't the same as yours! There was no massive red "Sydney" bus on my screen!

'Jewish hospital' isn't only for Jews. Historically they were opened by Jews because the other hospitals would limit their hiring of Jewish doctors.

After the licence plates, it's time to start learning the north american area codes (that van had a 604- phone number on it)!

5. Too bad he didn't think of Rexburg! Would have been an entertaining search in the wrong town for the wrong non-clue.

There was quite a huge sign saying "Peru" on one of the buildings in the third location. I was shouting at the screen, but you did not seem to hear me :D.

In the first round I got Sydney just because of the skyline on the advertisement and was very disappointed when it says Sydney on this building

As someone who's memorized Canada's area codes from working in customer service, that Vancouver round was heartbreaking 😭

Hey! Thanks to that last round, I beat you by 400 pts. First time that has happened. Good one!

Learning the country calling codes can be useful

That last round was brutal, I think the only real clue was the phone number (604-985-1481) on the side of the van, but who the hell just happens to know that 604 is British Columbia and 985 is North Vancouver?

"is that... is that French?", missing the massive text below that says Disneyland Paris :p

not sure why but my peru started one click away, even I push return to start it is not same where you checked the clues. :/

This map was my first perfect score without moving! Took a lot of searching the map for me though, for a few of those. Weirdly, we got different placements in Peru (about 2 clicks down) and it had Puno written all over the place, which was handy.

The last one looked familiar, then I realized I used to live right there lol. The yellow at the bottom of the license plates is not the license plate itself, it's a sticker. Every year we get a sticker from the insurance company that says the date in which our insurance expires. They won't always be yellow either. RX just means medical prescription or something like that. If you see cedar trees like that, you can pretty much assume it's Vancouver or Seattle. 20533, I should have trusted my gut and gone with Peru and Milan. I clicked off both of those :(

12:28 I've walked down that exact street many times when I go Milan every year on holiday, got off at Moscova metro station few times too

That tower in the first one is the centre point tower. Smack bang in the middle of the Sydney CBD, I’ve driven past where you were placed. 😂

Amazing guesswork! Tip for the future: Tacna is a city in Peru close to the chilean border, so in southeast Peru, most cities have a Tacna street. Jr. is short for Jirón and means no more than street or avenue in english-speaking countries, so you were completely right to ignore it :) I was actually facepalming when you showed "Hospedaje" on the map and on the sign because that just means "Hostel" and that part of Puno consists of 80% hostels, but I'm glad you picked the right one by chance!

I really enjoyed hearing you say "TITIKAKA" and "Puno" 😊

First time I get more points than you! First 3 rounds were spot on for me, on the Peru one I read something in a car which gave me the clue it was Puno. On the Iceland one I ended up 1.7km away and on the last one I went for California. There was a 12th St. somewhere facing the right directions but I knew it was wrong because it was too short. Would have never guessed Canada tbh. Still 2000 points on that one. 22108 pts at the end.

thought it looked like brtsh clubmia, so gussed Vancouver fo rlast one

I got the max scrore on nr. 1, 2 and nr. 4. Peru was really difficult, cannot believe you got that

I played along and for some reason in the Peru one I was in a slightly different position than you and there was a sign that said "Peru" so it made it easier for me.

You should leave in the searching. Like the 4 minutes you cut out just speed it up a ton so it only lasts maybe 15 seconds or something. I know it's probably too fast for us to get anything out of it but I think it's cooler if it's all there anyways for continuity.

Great game. I had a hunch the last one was Canada but I would have guessed Montreal.

Christ dude just about had a shit when Vancouver popped up... literally blocks away from where I sit now. Downright creepy. Was yelling at the computer. Well done otherwise.

rx means pharmacy

Damn I knew the last round was vancouver

The first one frustrated the hell out of me haha you saw it almost immediately and second guessed yourself

You should learn area codes for phones, it may have helped on the last round and RX is for a pharmacy prescription. In the Peru round, I think you missed a flag hanging limp on a pole just behind the newspaper cart.

Thought from the roundabout and the yellow reg sticker you'd get Vancouver for sure, great run though.

19733. 1 - This was pretty easy, but I couldn't find Robinson street to get the exact spot and that hospital wasn't marked on the map. 4997. 2 - Pretty easy to figure out this was Italy, but no clues to tell me what city. Guessed Milan and got lucky, 4992. 3 - No clues to tell me what country this was, but the area looked a lot like Bolivia, so I went for La Paz. 4292. 4 - Didn't want to spend a ton of time so I just went near Reykjavik. 4991. 5 - I figured this looked more like Canada than the US, but I thought those were Ontario license places instead of BC plates. Went for Toronto and got utterly fucked. 461

dude i got 5k on the Reykjavik round too and I was shocked lol. It was a huge guess and the businesses next to the highway didnt match the names in the google streetview. Basically the only thing i went off of was that it was middle-sized highway going straight north in a city in Iceland lmao

25000 :-) It was interesting to see how nearly all the Streetview imagery/mapping has been updated in the last 18 months. That made r3 slightly easier, since I could see that the other street was called Av. del Puerto, which made me think of Lake Titicaca; and in r4 some of the business names are now on the map. I was slightly surprised you didn't get r5 - it felt like the Pacific Northwest, and if you zoom into Vancouver you can see quite a few roundabouts, which I know are rare in the US. Any road up, thanks for inspiring me to get a no-moving 25k.

got my first no-moving perfect score on this one!!! 1 - Saw the sign pointing to Canberra and Wollongong first, figured from it being a big looking city that was close to those two, could only be Sydney. Then saw the hospital and spent ages looking for it up and down Williams Street before eventually finding it (it's been added to the map but you still have to be zoomed in pretty far). 5000! 2. Got different imagery here, there was a sign for Milan Fashion Week which was fortunate. Then looked for metro stations on big junctions in Milan before finding the right one. 5000!! 3. Again, different imagery and I couldn't see either Tacna street sign, but did see Puno on a taxi and Peru on a banner, so found the city pretty quickly. Then I spotted "Jr. Tacna" on a shop sign, but spent a long time looking for it since most of the businesses didn't match up. Got there in the end. 5000! 4. The sign to the north wasn't blurred for me, so I quite helpfully could see the direction, distance and road number to Reykjavik and Mosfellsbaer. Plus one of the businesses on the left actually appears on the map now. Those things combined made it fairly easy. 5000! 5. Different imagery again, I think it was from the same time but a different position - I saw .ca on a car which made all the difference since it tipped me off to Canada. Couldn't read the sign you saw but made out East 12th Street on another. It looked like there were mountains or at least hills in the west, fortunately there aren't many big cities in Canada, so I checked them all for mountains in the west and a grid layout with numbered streets going east-west, eventually found North Vancouver after some fruitless pissing around in Calgary. Pinpointed the exact spot on East 12th St thanks to the little roundabout and size of the buildings to the south. 5000! total: 25,000! oh my god

I got 22,272. The Sydney one I was also able to find the exact spot, the Milan one you kicked my ass as I guessed around Paris based on the Disneyland Paris sign and not recognizing Italian. The Peru one you won because I just guessed somewhere in the city of Tacna based on all the signs. Iceland I was only a mile away because I worked out it was Iceland and picked a region that looked similar and I ended up beating you by recognizing the last one as being the Pacific Northwest just based on how it looked and as an American (from Michigan), the streetlamps looked really strange so I went with Canada and guessed Surrey just because it didn't look big enough to be Vancouver. Surrey is about 20 miles from North Vancouver where it was so woo.

26:39 IMMEDIATLY Vancouver vibes and the Evo seals the deal... plus the phone number is 604

Totally crushed with the last round, I was on the edge for the whole episode!! Your skills are impressing me every time, even when I think I‘ve seen it all. Can‘t wait for the next round, you‘ll do this!!!

Man I saw the iceland one and just clicked randomly (a bit of logic, not much) next to reykvik är got 4999 points with 170 m away.