Geoguessr from above? Now you're talking.. [Capital Cities #1] 

Thanks for the bustling response everyone. It hasn't been nice, depriving you of Geoguessr content, it's just hard sometimes to squeeze everything in. There'll be a corker of a geodetective coming in the next few days in which I attempt to locate a photograph of someone's grandmother in the 1950s. The family are dying to know where it was taken, but can I solve it for them? (release date has been pushed back because it was a BIG one, + new editor) Thank you for your continued support. You're all a marvellous bunch of people.

If you’re ever unsure if the orientation is correct and there’s an airport on the map, check the runway numbers as they correspond with the compass but with the last number missing. For example, runway 26 is facing about 260 degrees. Also, some airports may even have the airport code or city painted on the manoeuvring area somewhere.

I recommend Worldle which is like wordle but with the outline of a country - really quite interesting, you could make a “shorts” series on it

"It's hard to tell, but I don't think we're there. No, because is hasn't been blown to shit" Welcome back Tom, always give me a good laugh 😂

Great to see you back playing GeoGuessr! Can't wait to hear your thoughts about the other GeoGuessr additions, too! :)

So about the mystery of "why does it go so thin?" The niger river runs through Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria and Niger in order, it loses water to evaporation in the desert and overusage by the countries upstream (despite arrangements made between the countries). In some areas of Mali,depending on the season, the river has 50 times more waterflow at it's peak than it's worst, creating huge droughts and floods regularly. In Africa and the fertile crescent in particular (although this happens everywhere around the world) water is source of huge conflicts and abuse, and can be used as a weapon by countries that are upstream who can limit other countrie's ability to grow crops. The average water levels of most of these rivers is also going down fast.

"can't be Damascus because it hasn't been blown to shit", he says, in a game with three rounds in countries with active conflict.

Glad to see you play this format man, the Unity Script is amazing!

Kind of a weird thought that we'll never see an instance where tom checks if he's recording and hes not

This game showed me that while I may know the names of most of the world's countries, I know VERY few of their capital cities' names. Nice video. Definitely do this type of game mode again.

Such a welcome sight to see on my feed! Love the adventures as well but Geoguessr is my favorite and it has been missed! There are some new battle royale modes and duels which I think could make for some great new content as well!

Tom: wants to gently ease himself back into the game. Also Tom: plays a version of the game which completely removes most of your skillset

Bro... I *RESPECT* your straight line challenges *ALOT* more now, me and my step dad went camping to a spot he use to take us all as a family, I remember is mostly as the place my step brother through a rock at my skull and cracked it open, anyways, it's in the Bush Bush with hundreds of waterfalls, and for 7 hours we climbed and walked through the most hectic of vines and bushes, 700m took 40mins, and OMG to see land again was amazing haha, it was crazy flash fluids weeks prior, but daymmm we had no water and it was seriously becoming a problem, we had to climb down all the 80° rock faces we climbed up, it was all volcanic rocks, so it was basically like rock climbing with rocks sticking out, but its was hella sketchy and I understand more of what you climb and go through 😂😂💯, I LOVE outdoors as I do love climbing mountains with crampons, thanks for the content, idk how you flim it and everything , I was struggling just to get my body through the vines 😂😂😂😂🤣

Tom, you are an absolute unit and run what is genuinely one of the best channels on RU-vid. I quite literally cheer out loud from sheer excitement when I get a notification that you’ve uploaded a new video, be it some classic GeoWizardry or one of your legendary adventures.

Glad to see you back. I hadn't realised how much your videos chill me out and help my brain relax until recently. I have been grieving for the last month and found your videos one of the few things to quieten my mind. So thankyou for that.

24:20 my favorite moment *nice wear for clothes*

A country with the equator literally going through it Tom: “I’m surprised it’s THAT far north!??”

Quite amazed by your abilities! Clearly you have a great way to make connections in your brain and trust your intuition. I've been binging your videos for several days and have now subscribed. I've always thought I knew geography quite well but upon watching you for a while I've decided to get re-current studying on all countries and capitals. The world has changed quite a bit since I've been to school.

NICE WEAR FOR CLOTHES!!

I hope you will be posting more of these series, this is awesome content! Enjoyed every minute of it.

Love all your content and definitely missed some geoguessr. Very happy to see it come back. Makes me learn my geography a bit every time.

That's a really unique and fun format. What a great surprise waking up to a new geoguessr video from Tom on my birthday :)

I enjoy watching your thought process when doing these. Good to have you back!

i love your geoguessr stuff you are so entertaining and awesome. i love that i can watch you and learn at the same time

When you did the second one I knew immediately it was Somalia as the border of it with the sea is quite distinctive and then the running track , as Somalian's are great at doing long-distance running (as I have seen in the Olympics)

I enjoy seeing you back and this new format is really cool to be a part of!

Enjoyed playing along with this! Much better live play along than regular geoguessr

I highly recommend going for high scores using the blank map feature - more fun than you’d think!

Absolutely love your videos mate. Could listen to you all day

Simply the greatest content creator. Love your vids man keep it up!!!

Love getting back to the geoguessr content as well! No worries for the break it's just nice to see the return. I promise there's people here from the days of late-night geoguessr runs. There's literally dozens of us!!!!

this was actually really interesting! good that you can find somewhere just looking at the shape of the land or rivers, would be nice to see you try this again!

I have been having tons of fun with the satelite maps, good to see you playing them too

I really like this map Tom! It's quite interesting and I like to see all the various Geoguessr formats! 😁

So glad you've found the unity script - many other geoguessr guys have posted videos about this the past few months. Well done.

New video! OMG. I had been waiting for this! Thanks!

Love to watch you. You make me a better player in GeoGuessr with all your tips.

This format is actually a lot more interesting and fun to watch than it sounded. As you said, I thought it would be just matching up the image to what you see on the world map, but it's so much more than that. And also seeing these huge bustling cities in this kind of clear satellite imagery really gives you a sense of the massive scale of these places that you don't get when just using the featureless Google Maps view.

I liked that mode a lot, interesting to see what it can offer on a more challenging map. Good to see some more geoguessr content from you again, even tho I do like the adventuring stuff too!

I really enjoyed this! I've definitely missed the geoguessr content.

Cheers man, this script and new way of playing just gave me a proper geo-gasm. ♥♥♥

I actually really like looking at cities from above. I would love to see you do more!

Welcome back to Geoguessr, man. Looking forward to more of this format and hopefully see you play some multiplayer games soon. Can't wait for the upcoming GeoDetective video. Much love from Amsterdam.

Video was heaps of fun! Nice to see you back to this wonderful game

It is so interesting watching you work. Many years ago I was trained as a photo interpreter by the United States department of defense. At one point I had a coworker use the southwest corner of a camel pen as a geodetic precise positioning point. Your selection of the swimming pool as the target location reminded me of that. 🙂

I enjoy the learning that comes with less euro centric cities. Glad to see you back in the hot seat!

Exciting! That's the best thing that happened to GeoGuessr in a long time! My geography heart is dancing!

And and my brother were watching your video last night, he adored your content, was probably the last thing he saw before he went and and passed away yesterday. Thank you for bringing a slight bit of joy to James's life. RIP James💔

He’s back everyone! I’m so excited for the upcoming GeoGuessr content, keep it up

What an interesting way to come back. Glad your back to Geoguessr!

23:24 "No, cuz it hasn't been blown to shit" I'M DEADDDDD

Hey Tom, quick tip😊 You can use the runway numbers at the airport, which are the big numbers at both ends of the runway, as a compass because they are just the compass bearings that have been rounded off to be a number between 1 and 36 where 36 representing north, 9 - east, 18 - south, and 27 - west. Ps love all your content make me happy every time I watch :)

Great job. I really like this top-down view. I couldn't imagine trying to choose from any city over 1K people. That will definitely be a challenge, but one I'm sure you're up for.

Hey GW, really respect you for the shout out! My dad's gonna be so happy that you mentioned his shop. "NICE WEAR FOR CLOTHES"

i can watch these all day keep up the great content tom

This is a really fun format! Would love to play along in the future!

"Nice wear for clothes" in Borat's voice had me rolling 🤣🤣

PLEASE do more of this. I love this concept. Wish GG would make its own map of this.

Great video! More of these top view challenges would be awesome to watch!

Really missed the Geoguessr videos :D Loved this new way of playing

loved this format. I would really like a europe cities version, and also the world cities over 1k version. :)

Great content as always Tom. Looking forward to your next video 😁

I think the "driving on the left" thing helped me a lot with these ones... it really narrows it down quite a bit, and means a lot of the countries you looked at needn't have been considered.

The pool being a building is something i've seen myself. In my summer home we have a wooden deck, and that contrast (we're guessing) compared to the ground is enough for google to think we've build another house on the plot

you are so good, is mindblowing. Your videos are so entertaining.

I was hoping you'd try this! This is going to be a treat.

Great to see a little geoguessr and a really interesting mode at that

Can't wait for the next video with all towns and cities >1000 population, seems like it'll be great fun to watch you struggle.

Just getting into geoguesser because of you! Love the content.

I don't know how, but I felt like a genius when watching Tom for the first time. Every single one I found it within like the first 30 seconds. Just zoomed straight at it on the map. It levels the playing field when you can't go off of the minor cues you're used to figuring out which country you are in.

Yayyyy, so fun to see you back!!!

Somalia was my first guess on the second one and for some reason I was extremely confident in it. I now feel like a absolute genius. The fact I didn’t get anything else doesn’t matter

16:40 I'm guessing the river looks so thin because the imagery was collected during a dry season

This is why I subscribed, thanks Tom!

This is great! I work with remotely sensed imagery (satellite/aircraft images) for a living, so I'm hoping I'm better at this than the normal Geoguessr.

Wow I just looked up your channel because I was missing your videos... 10 minutes later this comes up!

glad you're back on geoguessr, keep going bro

This is interesting I would love to see more like these.

Love it Tom! Thanks for the great video

Damn this map in a diverse world style without zooming out too much seems really fun…

Hey greetings from Germany. Found you about the rocketbeanstv show geoguesser. You are amazing ;-)

You don't know how i have been waiting for this

Awesome video Tom! Nice to get some geoguessr content again!

Please do another one of these! This is great!

I absolutely adore this. My first thought for the first capital was in the caribbean... the last one I thought was Rabat. But I did get Luxembourg City right away!!

Tried this about 2 days ago and almost emailed you hoping you would check it out. Absolute blast. Great video tom

love the Geo Peter shout outs, great geoguesser channel

loved this one! may be much easier for you but is also nice for me to be capable of guessing some cities

man I had East Timor as soon as you spotted the left lane traffic. that just screamed Indonesia. And when I spotted the airport a bit better, i recognised. probably helped, that I've had a stopover in Dili a couple of years ago.

Been binging your content as I've been playing more Geoguessr

so happy that you are back

I missed these! Well done tom.

This is very cool map mate!

you had me laughing on falafel park LOL! I did see it was Sana'a instantly tho, the others were a mystery for me

I instantly recogonised the Dili coast line as soon as you panned out. I think it helps that I've spent around 3 months working there a few years back.

So cool! Would love more of this.

Lovely video! Looking forward to more geoguessr

I would love to see more of these!

If you want to check on cardinal directions, you could zoom into the beginning/end of a runway. They have numbers on them: 36 north 09 east 18 south 27 west Basically compass degrees divided by 10.

I really liked this version of geoguessr. I thought it was pretty fun to play along with the video on the satellite version