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

[@GeoWizard]

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.

[@dinogiarratano8785]

Hi Tom. Great to see you back on Geoguessr! Did you see the Geoguessr nightmode videos? I thought you would be the best chance to increase the prize for that one as it depends on how many people see it.

[@tilenjk02]

Great to have editor

[@angbald]

You have me addicted to this game now and I can't wait to watch some of your other content. Subbed and binging. Pretty sure Real Life Lore is what made KZbin recommend this channel and for once I can say....Good job KZbin. 👍

[@Lvlaple4Ever]

Next straight line mission when? 😞

[@apuapustaja1958]

have you ever tried geoguessing your way home from a random spot?

[@Woodymbr]

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.

[@ahmetnumanduman8653]

Came here to write this

[@jackmathieson1903]

Very interesting

[@cubingwithcarl4572]

Great tip!

[@IMTHEBIGGESTCUNT]

Whilst scouring the globe and maps… there are lots of quite large, non-numbered runways. Many are brand new, with next to no existing buildings nearby. Makes one wonder how they were built? Materials, equipment and crew all kept offshore no doubt?

[@MYCHEM1CALR0M4NCE]

I have feeling google's compass points to geographic north, not magnetic north.. in which case the airport numbers which correspond to magnetic north, will 99% of the time not align with the Google compass north... but indeed this airport fact will still be useful for most cases, but should not be taken to be exact if there is a declination misalignment

[@_phiaa]

"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 😂

[@Tigzy3]

😂😂😂

[@skitstroppo]

Unfittingly funny, seen as what hell that beautiful city has been turned into.

[@mrlagx]

@@skitstroppo And the answer was in Yemen, which is currently getting blown to shit.

[@martah93]

I had to pause the video to catch my breath after that joke

[@lucaschess-x7c]

@@skitstroppo That's how the West behaves when it's a brown people country and not a white European country.

[@GeoPeter]

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

[@GeoWizard]

Thanks Peter! It's gonna take me a little while to get back up to speed I think!

[@Benhutchie22386]

Hi Geopeter! I had a feeling you would comment and was looking for it :)

[@alexanderweinrich7418]

I’m so happy to see the both of you watching each other’s content :) I love the geoguessr community

[@StargazerTheFurry]

@@GeoWizard Fuck GeoGuessr, making you wait 15 minutes for 5 minutes of play. It's a scam and you really need to stop supporting them.

[@jamooo]

@@nekocat34 woooosh

[@mileschalker2226]

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

[@muhilan8540]

Also Globle it’s similar but I like it a lot more, also if he plays worldle he should definitely turn off the country outline feature

[@isaacengeling7001]

The problem with worldle is that it’s unbelievably easy for someone like Tom who can recognize countries very quickly.

[@tilenjk02]

Its too easy

[@henrydegroff4282]

@@isaacengeling7001 some days are easy, some are very difficult. The other day it was Nauru- a truly difficult one.

[@aaron6259]

Thanks for this, now I have a cool little game to try :)

[@keenanlarsen1639]

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.

[@ChicagoGeographer]

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

[@GeoWizard]

Hey mate thanks! I just read that you did this first so sorry for the lack of shout out. You'll get one soon - I love your vids!

[@ChicagoGeographer]

@@GeoWizard No worries at all! It means the world to hear you like my videos. Keep up your great content as well!

[@Taranc13]

instantly thought of your channel when i saw this haha

[@ewan7154]

@@Taranc13 same

[@ewan7154]

@@ChicagoGeographer make more vids on it its really interesting

[@curtisgrossheim680]

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!

[@nekocat34]

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.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I knew there was going to be someone in the comments who knows this.

[@Dan-me5li]

Thanks for the knowledge

[@MisterName1]

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"

[@dwmdinamo123]

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💔

[@MeItsMeLol]

I’m very sorry your brother passed.

[@bland2467]

Tom, you are an absolute unit and run what is genuinely one of the best channels on KZbin. 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.

[@julia970y6v]

"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.

[@eskinnee]

I'm assuming you mean Yemen, Somalia, and Luxembourg?

[@Aragonstar]

he's not wrong innit

[@Half_Finis]

he aint wrong though.....

[@fyivid]

@@eskinnee Mali

[@ahmadmsaa]

I am from Syria and I can assure you Damascus city is almost entirely intact. It is the outskirts of Damascus that were largely affected.

[@philjones7076]

Believe it or not, as soon as you brought the first city up, I said, "That's Dili" It probably helped that I've spent 2.5 years working there and recognised the city coastline straight away. Nice vid, thanks.

[@laurenhw1988]

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.

[@Mr96Frank]

I'm sorry for your loss, wishing the best to you

[@dainbaril2934]

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.

[@gondosnose6343]

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

[@mertaksac9718]

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

[@vickiekostecki]

And yet he still kills it.

[@cillianobrien5280]

Can you play this if you have GeoGuessr pro?

[@larrybell726]

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. 🙂

[@Mincher]

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

[@cooraa]

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

[@Yrenne]

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.

[@stephenholt4670]

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.

[@Yarenoglu]

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.

[@GeographyChallenges]

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

[@Nooticus]

seconded!

[@aubweymagobwey]

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

[@tonypapas9854]

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

[@MartinvonBargen]

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

[@eriklagergren7124]

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

[@Snipesx]

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

[@lianadoom]

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)

[@karlkarl93]

If you've read about the backstory of black hawk down then the city looks quite distinctive too, especially with that stadium he was looking at.

[@zachgreen250]

I'm with you. Within seconds I said "Mogadishu" because of that coastline shape and the third-world and dry appearance of the city.

[@jonc4712]

Same, immediately recognized the capital.

[@Dhari1]

To be honest, I've recognized Mogadishu from Black Hawk Down. Which wasn't filmed there ^^ Anyway, the whole stadium and the airport (both the one in the movie and the actual one) has been etched into my memory. Horrible situation (civil war) for the Somalians but interesting history piece.

[@agroblueberries]

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

[@jjstewart4341]

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

[@DECODEDVFX]

He means he didn't expect it to be such a northern country based on the map imagery.

[@lanceanthony198]

That part left me scratching my head 😂 Tom operates on a different level

[@jjstewart4341]

@@DECODEDVFX what

[@DECODEDVFX]

@@jjstewart4341 based on the map he assumed it was a southern African country. He wasn't surprised about the location of Somalia. He was surprised about the location of the city.

[@danielenqvist9411]

North is relative. If you are in Antarctica, South africa will be to the north. It doesnt mean that South africa is not in the southern hemisphere.

[@theonlyartist1992]

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

[@christiaanerskine6076]

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 :)

[@tasbirmiah5247]

SMARRRTTTT

[@inaweoftheworld]

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

[@Shadowkiller5555]

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.

[@cmcmcmcm2354]

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!!!!

[@ddavisgaming]

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

[@benradcliffe2717]

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 😂😂😂😂🤣

[@lordiman112]

you cant just mention that your brother cracked your skull open and follow it with "anyways" lol

[@benradcliffe2717]

@@lordiman112 I literally just did ??? I wasnt gana continue wasting time telling you why and how it happened and what happened afterwards 😂😂,

[@lordiman112]

@@benradcliffe2717 lol now i wanna know mate!!

[@Willy_Wanka]

@@benradcliffe2717 your spelling is so horrendous it literally managed to trigger me.

[@bea_hani]

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

[@nikiinge6386]

Omg I live in Luxembourg and from the thumbnail I could see my actual street 😂😂. This is crazy 🤩

[@banana.3009]

Yeeee samee

[@Donanzador]

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!

[@MrCacagod]

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

[@mehmetgurcan4618]

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

[@leafbelly]

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.

[@rewstir6646]

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

[@pansexualdickhaver6878]

Yup. Just screamed Somalia to me too. Def a proud moment haha

[@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549]

The derelict sports stadium was a giveaway

[@fagan327]

I thought of black hawk down immediately. Airport from where they launched and stadium where they collected injured.

[@Saber721]

I recognized it as Mogadishu instantly. Only because I had looked it up before. 😝

[@charliescott3544]

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

[@AllanJTaylor]

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

[@boozayo]

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

[@stefano757]

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!!

[@pauzepauze2007]

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

[@happytrails5671]

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

[@gabrielmontanhole]

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

[@lilacmarble8720]

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!

[@Svendzeen]

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

[@2MyCapo]

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

[@ivo3111]

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

[@ykroc]

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

[@jaabbbb]

It’s 3 a.m. where I live but when you saw Geowizard just uploaded the long awaited geoguessr vid, you gotta know your priorities and sleep later.

[@CharlieRogers50]

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

[@TimLo111]

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

[@Ultraanimegirl4]

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

[@alexanderweinrich7418]

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

[@elin_]

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

[@LiamDC23]

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.

[@wangflop]

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.

[@foog_1]

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

[@samueldamuel1689]

Damn, I actually got some right… and some wrong. Most bumming one was I guess the Niger River right just guessed the wrong city, but oh well I still did well and you even better Tom, nice video!

[@dezeman8062]

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

[@TheJipino]

Maybe also more rocky banks? Not sure

[@peelsreklaw]

The look of the banks nearby makes me think the river is partially emptying into flood plains or something.

[@yeahwhateveridc6062]

deze man zeg

[@LeftiFingerbordeR]

Yayyyy, so fun to see you back!!!

[@gvidasbrilius2385]

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.

[@RaitonTime]

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

[@Filbie]

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

[@ander4163]

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

[@cmcmcmcm2354]

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

[@nurri]

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.

[@tsya]

i guessed them all in 1 sec damn. please continue this series

[@andrewgreek8426]

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

[@park9912]

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

[@ignite-wc4zj]

love the Geo Peter shout outs, great geoguesser channel

[@iOzOnEe]

glad you're back on geoguessr, keep going bro

[@matejhazek2598]

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

[@Naturalhighz]

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

[@HeadRecieverAtHeadOffice]

This is why I subscribed, thanks Tom!

[@michaelfink64]

Nice variation. If you are unsure if north is up, you could zoom in on a runway. They are labelled according to their compass bearing, divided by 10. For example, a runway that is approached from due north (i.e. the plane would need to fly due south to get to it) will be labelled 18.

[@OtesOtesOtes]

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

[@Adrian_Zgripcea]

20:25 I've passed by that parking lot many times when I was living in Luxembourg. Crazy 😀

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

You can go "I can see my house from here!"

When I saw the airport and the coast of Mogadishu, I remembered that it's familiar from Black Hawk Down, which I rewatched recently and out of curiosity I checked the events on wikipedia and gmaps after the movie. How interesting.

[@ABRouleauville]

When I saw the abandonned stadium I thought of Black Hawk Down too.

[@josefanon8504]

"This boob shaped building there" LMAO Keep being the way you are Tom :)

[@Maxzero0]

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

[@idkcantdecide]

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

[@deantasty7421]

He: *Gets a perfect score* Also he: [next time] "it will be more impressive, more rewarding" Dude, that was impressive as hell!

[@GrimRaper8]

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

[@xavim9551]

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

[@Uncle_Buzz]

I don't care what those other guys say... I'm enjoying your return to GeoGuessr. Cheers!

[@blackjack9610]

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

[@mattbergmann86]

I lost my mind when you were presented with the first one. I was deployed to Dili in 2010-2011 and recognised it straight away.

[@blackcat6.]

so happy that you are back

[@beorlingo]

Tom is such a natural talking head. For GeoGuessr, I'm thinking King Maff playing, zi8gzag announcing and Tom as the pundit would be really something for eye and ear!