What a View! ..Bird's Eye View/Drone Map #1 [PLAY ALONG] 

Thanks for playing my map man! Sorry for the first location in Stockholm, that one is removed now as it was so wrong (it will still be there on the challenge link though). It happens now and then that locations like that slip through, but I try to not use locations like that. If anyone is finding more errors there is a link to report them to me in the map description. Happy geoguessing! (And about the compass being wrong, I really wish I could do something about that.) EDIT: Someone reported the first location (Stockholm) and the third location (Strängnäs) as incorrect to Google maps, so they got deleted from the site. That's why you will spawn in the streets on those two rounds if you play the challenge link now.

GW: "That might be a Fiat Panda there, actually." Me: "Come on!" GW: "No, you laugh but it might be..."

The famous " are we filming?" 😂

“Get in!” Count: 0 But close call @1:30 with an early “get-able”. Perked my ears up.

Holy shit. Didn't expect my hometown (the third one: Strängnäs) to pop up. Especially since it is quite small; less than 15 thousand people.

Nothing like some high-speed ABBA music to help with your search in Sweden.

For the Minsk round, there was a bus that had MINSKTRANS on the side of it.

playing ABBA while serching in Sweden was a nice touch

When are we doing mission across Sweden together? Lets go !

"I should know, by the width of this inlet, what city this is." Pretty sure that's the first time that sentence has been said 🤣

For the first round you were over a very famous building in Stockholm and om fairly sure that it is where the Nobel price is held

The strange suspense when Tom checks if he is filming despite the fact I know he is filming gets me every time

but how gorgeous is rural sweden, definitely on my list for this summer

"if I dont get this I'm shit basically" -me everytime I play my own country map

Tom, quick tip, can you edit the description to make the 'Play along' link clickable? add right before the link, thanks!

"Minsktrans" written on a bus in #2 - goes to show it's worth scanning the text even for what looks like Russia

For the second round, St Petersburg looks much more European than that city

"Today we're gonna do something different, but kinda the same..."

8:02 When you turn saturation all the way up

The moment you realise you’ll never see him say: “Are we filming? Oh for fuck sake”

Me: "Ah that's Munich nice and easy' GW (confidently) "This is Barcelona" Me: ...

Hey Tom, ever go somewhere in the real world and remember the time you had that location on geoguessr?

I think that the fact that he looks for FIAT Pandas to determine if he's in Italy or not really shows how deep his knowledge of my country is.

8:15 as a amateur drone photographer I have to say that this guy really loves the saturation slider

that cheeky abba bit version while you were searching in sweden was a nice touch :D

If the compass doesn't work, you may be able to get help by looking for a church. Churches are almost always oriented, meaning their choir (often the rounded bit at the end where the altar is) point east. The main entrance is almost always in the west, where you also often find a pair of tall towers.

"looks pretty wealthy" literally in the middle of a planned block flat neighbourhood

18:53 BMW Headquaters: Am I a joke to you?

Gotta love the chip tune ABBA xD

In the Minsk round there were Belarusian flags on the side of the big street.

Wow. I live in Stockholm, but grew up in Strängnäs. Recognized it instantly. Crazy round!

I think an eye tracker would be a nice addition to the channel. Maybe not for every video, but I often find myself wondering exactly how your eyes dart across the screen for these.

2:12 The Globe in the distance, now called Avicii Arena.

It is not a real GeoWizard video without 5:48

You should learn the Russian (cyrillic) alphabet! It only takes like 2 weeks and you could read those eastern european signs to make it easier.

Here before Ludwig does a play along to this

Me: yes I know the Olympic park in Munich I’m nailing this round Tom: this is Barcelona Me: 😍😍 Tom: sees the damn Bayern Munich stadium ffs 😂

The Minsk round had a bus that had the writing "Minsktravel" on it.

As a Bayern fan last round took me around 2 secs to figure out. A lot of sentiment towards Olympiastadion.

I no longer feel like an idiot for guessing St. Petersburg round 2

I've got Minsk. Here is a gamble club (which is legal in Belarus). And the flags were there too

As someone who lives less than a kilometer from where the Stockholm picture was taken; you were absolutely spot on, and the one placing the location on the map was very wrong...

Missed on the sweden one, but i got Minsk. The Belarus flag colours were on poles.

“I didn’t know Minsk was that big” Has a population of 2.6M and is the 11th biggest city in Europe

How many times Tom have said 'are we filming' and not really recording?

Great video, the "Barcelona" made me laugh! Cheers from Munich

Both Sweden rounds placed me on the road :(

I wish you'd make more videos about unique maps like this one, it's nice to play a variety of maps

when making a map, GeoGuessr actually allows to manually adjust the compast each time, fair enough though that it wouldn't be worth the hustle doing so over 1000 times.

Первый раз вижу Минск в серии, с этой локации я даже свой дом вижу ахах

Finally, Belarus, for the first time.

Just binge watching these, and a tip how to always get Minsk (Belarus). The buses. Those are MAZ buses (like the yellow one in the sphere) they look like old Neoplan designs from the 1990s and much fewer exist in Russia or Ukraine, while tons do in Belarus, they have a very characteristic shape unlike any other brand.

Damn Daniel

For the Minsk one, there's a little Belarussian flag on one of the streetlamps. I spent at least 30 minutes looking for that church on the Minsk map but ended up guessing. Thankfully I landed only one street over to my surprise. The Tenerife one totally stumped me though, I ended up in Tasmania.

Hello from Minsk!

13:44 initial thought "Southern coast of Tenerife or some other canary island" 18:36 Munich. Olympia Park. But i'm cheating. i live there. XD As a tip for future rounds. The buildings close to the park seen at 19:25 are the BMW Tower (4 cylinders) as well as the BMW Museum (the flat building left of the 4 cylinders) and the TV tower. Also the river is the Isar, and its not very close

The last I was this early, the channel was named GeoguesserWizard

The profile name of the photographer of the Tenerife one is literally 'Views Tenerife', but meanwhile Tom is searching for Fiat Panda's to check if it could be Italy! I love this guy 😂

Damn Sweden🤩🇸🇪

The Tenerife round was shocking to me! I have been to Gran Canaria twice, and never have I seen the ocean so blue! I did notice, when I was there, that the buildings were quite colourful in some areas. And also, my guts told me that it was indeed an island. Even the mountains screamed at me saying “CANARY ISLANDS!”… But the sea is THAT blue? wow. I even have video of the coasts of Gran Canaria! Not even close to being so bright.

Huge respect for Tom's commitment and dedication to continue searching for each location far longer than required!

As a Bavarian, with the distinctive and unique look of the Munich Olymic Stadium in that last round, I am nearly a bit miffed about your instinctive „That‘s Barcelona!“. The fact that you got Munich because of the Allianz Arena in the frickin‘ distance, when you were hovering over the much older Olympiapark and directly facing the Olympiaturm (the tower) is a bit sad. Especially, as the Olympic Stadium has been the home of FC Bayern until the Allianz Arena was built. The River btw is the Isar, that goes into the Danube.

Grüß Gott from Austria.

Well, maybe i should try geoguessr sometimes...lol, got the Stockholm guess instantly(well its were the nobelmiddag is held), Minsk aint hard to get(idk why but i vibe at russian countries), Strängnäs...wtf you searching in Lit, its the last place i'd search in up in a beat up industry tätort Jämtland 😅, Tenerife (got the name pretty fast) and well, im born in Regensburg so i kinda recognise german towns(and the Olympiastadion 😅

‘No you laugh’ whilst I’m laughing at tom trying to find a fiat panda😂

If you haven't already, I strongly recommend getting (or borrowing) a VR headset and just gliding around in google Earth VR. It's free and is breathtaking when you change the settings to be 'humansized' rather than 'dollhouse'. Flying over your own house is amazing. Shame the pyramids aren't 3D :(

In the first round, at my game ther wasnt adrone view. It was the exact spot but a car view...

Very specific use case, but would've helped on the Minsk round - if you figure out you're in a country that uses Cyrillic but find a foreign chain, such as McDonalds, check for the script of the logo. All of these chains will be written in Cyrillic if it's Russia. I'm not sure how many of these countries do this, but I knew for a fact that Belarus uses the regular Latin script, so that's how I could guess Minsk and not Russia.

A tip for the future: McDonald's in Russia is always written in cyryllic, which is not the case for Belarus or Ukraine

I don't know why but when I played the map was proper scuffed. First area was all black so I just clicked anywhere and then I got the Minsk location two times. Nice

I've tried this map many times and the person who's marked the locations hasn't done it accurately. What happened to you in the Stockholm round has happened to me alot and it's annoying.

In the second round there was a bus with "Minsk" on it and a Belarusian flag on every single pole on the main road. If only Tom zoomed in, he'd see them.

Was waiting for you to do this! Can't wait to get destroyed in the play along

very interessting map, instead of looking for signs and language you have to use the city and the geographical features, just sadly the compass is a troll.

When will he get his own Netflix show?

"McDonald's" signs are written in Cyrillic in Russia and in the Latin script in Ukraine and Belarus.

Pro tip: Saint-Petersburg looks like sad Paris/Amsterdam in the city center, with hint of communism. Source: I live there

Bro! You were on my street in in Stockholm!!! Love your videos man, keep em coming.

Heartbreaking that you missed the Minsktrans bus in Minsk.

I got the Minsk one because I remembered Mr baldandbankrupt visiting a place like that. Plus the belarusian colors on the lamp posts

Tom blames other people for coming to his channel and stealing ideas... proceeds to go to other channels and steal ideas...

Hey Tom, as a suggestion for this and future play alongs, it would be very nice if you could add the www. at the front of the challenge links so that they are clickable from mobile devices! Nice vid as always :)

As if you were also bathing in the river Lech because you said it was cold. I was in the river in the town Lech and it was bloody cold mate.

Lost my Map Record. Saw the number of players had doubled. Checked Geowizards RU-vid...knew it haha. Unfortunately can only see "NCH" because of the facecam though

for the 1st one, the drone controller dude was probably at the marked location instead of the drone location

the second location had a tour bus with a site referring to Minsk on it! Stay sharp GW :0

Geowizard is like banana on pizza, never thought i would like it, but now i'm addicted

This video is going to drone on

I'm from Minsk, and even I haven't been in this place, but it looked like it tho

The rocks in the tenerife one were clearly volcanic, you could tell by how sharp, clear and swiss-cheesy they were

didnt get super easy Stockholm (have been searchng in Denmark, Netherland, Germany...) but got Minsk really fast even tho I never been in Belorus / Russia :D But good game

Last one is Munich Olympic Park! I was there two years ago, magnificent place!

Damn that second Swedish place was aboslutely breathtaking.

On the third location... you can use solar panels to determine N/S, panels will usually face within 45° of due south

First round and it's the Stockholm City Hall, where I received my M.Sc in computer engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology!

In that minsk round there were like 4 belarus flags.

This is the first time I've actually beaten Tom in a play-along where he hasn't gone completely wrong. Perfect scores on all except the fourth one. When I played round 1 and 3 I got put on the streets rather than with a bird's eye view and it actually makes it really different - I couldn't see the shape of the island or anything on 3, but I did find the name of the place outside a car dealership, which you obviously couldn't have done.

for some reason I got street view in both sweden rounds. idk why

Pans quickly around: Is that blob that pretty much falls in with the sky Allianz Arena in the distance? You're a mad man, Tom!

Instantly when you started round 4 I knew it was my land even though I live in the neighbor island, felt nice to see you get it right!