Geoguessr - "I saw the sign" (plus important mission announcement)

[@GeoWizard]

MESSAGE TO MY FANS: I just want to remind you all that if you want to watch the epic lock-down deliveries no roads mission, here's the link for my patreon: www.patreon.com/geowizard. Only costs you a dollar and there's plenty of extra, exclusive videos and posts for you to feast on while you wait, especially on the $6 tier. I'd love nothing more than to be able to release this properly on KZbin, but I've got to do what's best for the channel. If it were public, the video would be demonetised, possibly taken down and my channel could well be sanctioned in the future because of it. I also have to make a living so I've chosen the Patreon route for now. I appreciate some of you are unable to pay the $1, and I'm sorry. You guys will more than likely be able to watch this mission in the future, when all of this dies down. Just to be clear the straight line mission will be released in late June, on KZbin. Not Patreon. Big shout out to whoever recommended this map, and to whoever is on the lock-down mission hype. Have a top week everyone.

[@gucciotter8098]

Will defenetly check it out!

[@BantonOrg]

I wont be doing patreon so I hope it ends up on another platform

[@ridingflats]

Yeah bit cheeky of a reason. There's whole youtube channels dedicated to doing dodgy stuff, rail hopping etc. I doubt this is any worse.

[@daconor91]

@@ridingflats A lot of those channels don't make any money from youtube because of the illegal activity featured. I think it's fair that he doesn't want to risk that happening when youtube is how he makes his living

[@Josh-hm8yk]

Is there any chance you could upload it on another channel, I don't think KZbin will be too bothered to find your main channel and demonitise it/ take it down

[@jackmeatsix]

Irish Roads: M - Motorways N - National routes, normally major roads going through multiple counties R - Regional routes, usually within counties L - Local routes, very small roads and country lanes

[@tkb4026]

You got a better road system then the UK we got: M: Motorways A: Main roads, duel carriageways B: Country lanes, small roads, main roads

[@jackmeatsix]

@@tkb4026 I'm from the UK, I'm even a driving instructor, but I've driven in Ireland a dozen times. Their road system is far better than ours. If in correct in thinking, they're numbered geographically too.

[@wildishshambino4176]

Our number plates are superior aswell as road numbering

[@CiaraOSullivan1990]

@@wildishshambino4176 I agree. Our number plates are really well thought out. They give all of the infomation you need in a simple, straightforward format.

[@Samuel-pi7kq]

How not to travel Europe was brilliant. Anything similar on the agenda when this whole lockdown saga ends?

[@GeoWizard]

I hope so Sammy! Surely at some point.

[@Samuel-pi7kq]

@@GeoWizard Awesome! You and Greg make a hell of a team

[@haroldb6773]

How not to travel Europe were probably the only videos I’ve ever looked forward to seeing the next part on KZbin.

[@hotsauceman976]

GeoWizard it was probably the only youtube series I’ve got exicited for each week and all the effort you put into these videos are insane considering your not a huge channel like you’re very big but you put in more effort than some million subscriber channels

[@JuanAlvarez-sf9sn]

But did it end tho? He left it at the Austrian bakery and no more videos were posted, what happened?

[@hkrohn]

Kantor = office Pariwisata = tourism "Bandung" was part of a street name, Jalan Bandung, so it's just a street named after that city

[@maxxbenavente]

"Good evening everyone" *Later:* "Sorry, I'm a little slow, it's early in the morning"

[@SputTop]

Must be really early then

[@usernameusername4037]

"Jln. Bandung" Jln means road or street. So that sign was saying the equivalent of "Bandung Road". Unfortunate red herring

[@omblae]

Yeah this was bollocks, found the city but spent ages looking for Bandung road and did not find it anywhere

[@RosyMiranto]

Yeah, some cities in Indonesia has a cluster of roads named after other cities. So jl. Bandung is not on Bandung.

[@ARKajah]

In Bandung, we have Jl. Jakarta. What a joke!

[@raykrislianggi]

@@ARKajah Well in Singapore there Bali Road, lol.

[@wohlhabendermanager]

@@RosyMiranto I think it's the case everywhere in the world. In Hamburg we have a "Berlin Gate", it's not anywhere near Berlin, it's a train station, lol. And I live next to "Bremer Straße" ("Bremen Road"), but neither does it lead to Bremen, nor are we anyhwere near Bremen.

[@dannyblack2600]

Finally got my first perfect score on a no-moving-around from your channel! Round One I got Welkom pretty quickly because I found a sign that said Welkom Mall; once I was in the city it was quick to find Muizen Street. Round Two took me ages to find Vex, but I knew it had to be in Switzerland and ended up finding a lot of towns ending with x in that region so I went in closer and found it. The missing road tripped me up but i found the right spot by the buildings. Round Three I actually did pretty easily; I knew where Medan was and figured out we were in Pematang Siantar quite fast. I figured we were fairly central if it was a taxi service so I found the only place in the center that had the right road configuration, and the road it turned into being called Jl. Bandung confirmed it. Round Four I got lucky and saw Kilcormac right away when I zoomed in to look at Ireland (it's right next to where the text that says "Ireland" is on the map). Round Five I spotted Las Grutas right away, and it was a pretty easy find after that. I'm pretty proud to have done better than you here, because I usually do not :) Can't wait for the next straight line mission

[@mslo7312]

I know Welkom because of MotoGp

[@Esther_Herbst]

'Welkom' *is* 'welcome' in Dutch and Afrikaans so it was really easy to get confused there. On the other hand, that's the kind of place name one would expect in SA.

[@usernameusername4037]

From the nation that brought you "George" and "Springs"

[@bruhatthedesk5118]

Yeah, were bassackwards here

[@tr4ckb4ck45]

Good evening everyone! I know not the right video, but here’s a list for your bingo videos: 1. A person that’s walking with their dog, 2. A fast food restaurant in Namibia, 3. Donald Trumps Name written on something, 4. A Rolls Royce, 5. A movie camera, 6. A woman with a Louis Vuitton purse/bag, 7. A “Closed” sign, 8. A person that’s reading a newspaper, 9. Coca Cola advertisement, 10. A person that’s sitting on the ground, Greetings from northern Germany

[@Sierra-cl9xr]

The movie camera is a good one

[@mick2425]

Literally clicked on this video just because I seen the thumbnail and thought "is that Kilcormac?" 😂😂

[@GeoWizard]

Haha no way. Apologies for my shite attempt at locating it!

[@607]

That's unfortunate. These are great videos! But I understand there are more significant things to be done than watching videos. :)

[@mick2425]

@@GeoWizard I thought you did well enough. It hurt to see you start with Lough ree and know you were so close haha 😂 love the videos, man 👌🏻

[@XechPlays]

@@GeoWizard One of the Belfast ones you had to guess was a 3 minute walk up the road from my house. You even looked at the corner shops I visit daily. And I can confirm that ugly wall on the side of the Co Op has been painted and made less of a mess.

[@gurrrn1102]

Is Lough Boora really a fish pond?

[@renerpho]

This is a really lovely map/format. I hope you'll do more rounds on it!

[@GeoWizard]

Daniel Bamberger definitely Daniel!

[@juuljansbeken]

a quick tip regarding the registration plates on cars in the first round, when you're sure you're in south africa but you don't know what area, each of the 9 provinces have quite a distinct number plate. the green ones that you saw are from the gauteng province (where johannesburg and pretoria are) hope this helps :)

[@BeerdyBruceLeeCentral]

21:30 Blue Ball road......We've all been there.

[@henryh9707]

You should do a live stream where you cover up the street view and just look at the chat and they give you clues to guess where you are

[@Frrarii]

This is Genius

[@GeoWizard]

judging by the state of the chat so far I'd say it would take about 5 seconds for someone to shout the answer out. Great idea though.

[@henryh9707]

GeoWizard understandable

[@cheeseyasscheek9186]

@@henryh9707 it's a good idea still mate

[@henryh9707]

Thanks :)

[@ennob185]

This is by far my favourite channel out there. Thank you sooo much for the great entertainment during these boring times :)

[@g.groves616]

Just thought I’d let you know that Jack (from JackSucksAtLife) responded to your shoutout on the live stream just sayin your Welsh mission was amazing😁

[@GeoWizard]

That's class. I'll have to get in touch with him for a potential collab.

[@Mahoot]

GeoWizard that’s a collab I didn’t know I needed but I now can’t live without

[@ricois3]

@@GeoWizard I've been saying to you both to collab for quite some time! I would be so happy!

[@bruhmoment5948]

@@GeoWizard teach him how to play geoguessr, he is horrendous

[@beorlingo]

@@GeoWizard Bald n Bankrupt has nothing to do these days. I imagine he's just sitting on his ass gobbling Brighton Rock all day long. There's a collab that would be interesting if the two of you could figure out some weird stuff to be doing.

[@Thatonedere]

Been watching your videos for years. About time I give back to you for all the free content you've given us. Cant wait!

[@KoiinaCup]

....... and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign Life is demanding without understanding I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong But where do you belong?

[@seangraham247]

Brilliant. The Welsh series was amazing and from my neck of the woods I enjoyed it even more. Looking forward to watching this weekend. Keep it up. Your live streams have been brilliant and keeping me entertained 👍

[@GeoWizard]

Thanks Sean!

[@Forcefield23]

IT OPENED UP MY EYES I SAW THE SIGN

[@Sorcerer99]

LIFE IS DEMANDING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

[@OskarMarszalek]

I think it's a fair shout to have the mission on the Patreon. Would absolutely hate for your channel to get demonetized. On a side note I've been thinking about joining the Patreon for a while and this will push me to do that, so fair play Tom ;)

[@GeoWizard]

Thanks Oskar!

[@Anteaterman23]

You're about to be the first person I subscribe to on Patreon... And you totally deserve it! I'm so hyped!

[@Sorcerer99]

I Saw The Sign is a great song. And this was a great video!

[@pyramidschema8668]

Googled it and they drained the bloody lough in the 50's, all that's left is a peat bog.

[@DECODEDVFX]

If you're planning to do a play-along with this video, be warned. The streetview image has changed on some rounds.

[@AltoCalibreOP7]

Im from Argentina and I vacationed near Las Grutas last year, so funny to saw that little city beach in here haha

[@nCk.]

Uploaded 34 seconds ago lmao. Finally smth to end this quarantine boredom

[@nirutivan9811]

The Beer is called Calanda, not just Alanda. Is a quite popular beer here in Switzerland. As a Swiss I immediately realized it‘s my country, glad you did too.

[@Myer5Hertz]

Post offices in Northern Ireland are a Royal Mail. The Republic of Ireland is the green An Post offices. Also, they will have the name of the town/village on them (handy!) Irish roads from big to small are Motorway (begin with M, signposted white text on blue), National (begin with N, signposted yellow text on green), Regional (begin with R, black text on white) and local ( begin with L, also black text on white). If you find a post office or N Road you're golden.

[@EarlSquirrelsonn]

Irish Roads in ascending order: R - Regional Road N - National Road M - Motorway

[@JohnSmith-yv2tl]

Is that driver perving on those women? 7:19

[@wayout4054]

Alright mate? In your Urban World no moving #16 (at around 15:45) you said the line 'Esmerelda you never did fit in did you?', and weirdly it was that line that inspired the first song we wrote in our band! We have recently released Esmerelda on our KZbin account and it would make us so happy if you could give it a listen - from a band made up of Tom Davies fans xxx

[@MDU2000]

Absolute tune tbf

[@coeuznatas]

Hooray, beat you for the first time! Got 24223 on my round, missed Switzerland and the Irish one. Went on a massive lough-search as well, ended up near Omagh because of the road-sign. Blast!

[@DCSWCCkingpin1]

"Welkom was on the van" and THE VAN WAS THE FIRST THING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU

[@tiaankruger5816]

I am Afrikaans! You almost got the Welkom one.😁👍

[@justmanic9673]

GeoGussr: I did another straight line. Me: Yey Geogussr: But you have to be Patron. Me: Well...sod you

[@lucasward5510]

I mean one dollar tho.... you cant really complain about that much

[@legowagfles7287]

The straight line mission is coming in a few months he said. The one where he delivered essentials however will be on Patreon

[@justmanic9673]

I can when I don't have a credit card. I 'm only 21 but I haven't been able to get one for personal reasons. I'm just butter.

[@GeoWizard]

Hi Sophie, the straight line mission will be public as there's no threat of me being demonetised. That should be out in late June. It's just the lockdown mission that I've had to have as unlisted. Apologies if you're unable to watch. Hopefully in the future I can release it properly, when all of this has died down.

[@justmanic9673]

Its okay. I understand. I was just like ..Darn it'.

[@davidholden3386]

I know I would be equally rubbish trying to find a random, tiny town in the UK, but that Ireland round was painful to watch :D Tips for when you're in the Republic of Ireland: - Always look for post offices, the green 'An Post' building. They always have the name of the town on them - If road signs are only written in Irish (no English whatsoever) you're probably in the west of the country - Green roadsigns will point you to 'bigger' places nearby. so always look at them before the white ones

[@thisguy976]

This time it was in offaly

[@julijafoxy3476]

I almost beat your score!! I got 24 126 points (the indonesia and ireland rounds were a nightmare) I really enjoyed this video, hope to see more of this in the future.

[@123brinkman]

I live a bit up the mountain about a kilometre from Vex. Beautiful area.

[@sunnymoondog]

Lol, "Today we're in this town." That made me laugh.

[@jonathanmaack]

So apparently there are several fans who aren't able to watch the video due to not being able to pay a dollar (or not wanting to for whatever reason). I signed up to Patreon and I love this channel so I'd happily pay the $6 if I could afford it, but I just can't afford that every month, which is why I went with the $1 offer. Here's the thing, I do think Tom deserves it and I also think it'd be great for fans to be able watch these videos, especially in this current situation where you surely can need distraction, so if anybody wants to sign up to Patreon to get a month of $1 bonus material including but can't for whatever reason, just let me know here, and I'll pay for the first five of you. Don't know how yet, I'm sure we'll work something out. If there are greedy bastards who will take advantage of this offer despite being able to pay, well, I have no way to find out but if I can make a few people happy, it'll be worth it. And anyone who thinks this is a good idea and is willing to spare 5 quid (or less, or more) to do the same thing, that would be the greatest thing ever. By the way, if anybody thinks this is a shit idea for some reason that I'm maybe not seeing now, please let me know as well but as far as I can see it, I have nothing more to lose here than a fiver.

[@KarlsAbenteuer]

Round 2 has those squished numberplates, so it must be switzerland :)

[@neonblaze1356]

And it opened up my eyes

[@leonardodamico1912]

I live in Switzerland: the Beer is actually called Calanda. And whenever you see the sign with kinda a triangle like at 7:25 its all the Swiss Public regional banks, so you know its Switzerland

[@dapeep6704]

I SAW THE SIGN. IT OPENED UP MY EYES I SAW THE SIGN

[@Mr.M1STER]

I'm Irish so just feel like I want to chime in on the Irish one here. Immediately we see "an post" beside the Centra so that rules out Northern Ireland where it would be just "Post Office" in red or royal mail or something like that. Pity the image was just that bit too blurry to see the green sign above the one where you read R437 because above it say Nenagh N52 and you definitely would have been able to find the N52 and then you would have found Kilcormac.

[@Tris2000]

Took me an hour an 22 minutes but I got perfect score!! Was surprised how you didn't really look very hard in the first one. There were more mentions of Wilkom had you scanned around!!

[@svenskamannen]

Anyone else love the way he sings?!😧😧😧

[@JoeKunsch]

awesome! something to watch! thank god! i need a break.

[@sdfkjllshadflhadfshl]

Straight line across The Gambia. Yes! WE WANT THIS!

[@GVASpotter]

Oh man that 2nd guess! I drive on that road every summer on my way to some mountain vacation! That was a bit frustrating but good job anyway. Loved the vid!

[@DreamClean]

17:43 Green Postbox!! PTSD flashbacks.

[@Darxide23]

My Spanish is so-so, but the sign Hoy Ternera Muerta Exivida en La Batea would translate to something like... "Today: Dead calf live in the pan" or something like it. That's a butcher shop the sign is outside of, for reference.

[@PrincessTS01]

I can't get that damn song out of my head now.

[@ScriptedLinks]

Mate for a dollar? I'd pay hundreds for your content, you're fantastic!

[@jamie123b]

That’s so sad

[@ItsMe0274]

Just a tip- you'll almost never see Irish writing in northern ireland

[@MacBhloscaidh1]

You will in West Belfast or Derry

[@Killian-1888]

"almost" being the key word here

[@gallow_]

@@MacBhloscaidh1 >derry Atta boy

[@makeupbyvictoria11]

How come? I know pretty much nothing about Ireland.

[@af5579]

You do in down/Armagh

[@liamcurrie1986]

I know that youtube lowers the quality of videos, but your ability to read pixelated signed is amazing sometimes

[@televisionandcheese]

I saw the sign, and it opened up my eyes and I am happy now Living without you, I've left you on-your-ownnn

[@cottontheeastercottontailr265]

Being first is such an honour. I would like to thank my pet fish, the light in my bedroom, and my parents of always supporting me. It is truly amazing being the first comment. To all the kids out there, keep on trying, never forget your dreams.

[@benceszemes]

@GeoWizard When this whole corona thing will end, will you share the no roads delivery video on KZbin?

[@GeoWizard]

Quite possibly Bence. As long as KZbin lift their restrictions I don’t see why not.

[@DrumingMaster123]

This was a great episode! Keep it up and stay safe!! ❤

[@adamvogel6731]

Saw Welkom right off the bat and was really hoping he would have seen that

[@gamefreak974]

Bruhh you smart with the Patreon move.. I wish it wasn’t but I guess I gotta give you a dollar. Bless up!

[@wangflop]

I like this format. Perfect score should be atainable.

[@justincarlson2548]

God I love your KZbin videos

[@RuneBang]

Woo! Looking forward to the weekend now

[@lcemobile1518]

And it opened up my eyes!

[@LPRD]

If you ever see jln. before something. It basically means 'street'. 'pariwisata' is tourism

[@raykrislianggi]

14:32 My house is about a 10 minute walk from "Parahyangan Catholic University" at the center of the map. This has got to be the closest you'll ever get to where I live.

[@cccorbulo213]

Seeing you guess on a part of the road where the road literally bends the exact other way was painful ngl

[@cillian94]

For the roads in Ireland it's pretty simple. M = motorway N = national road, so a main road R = regional, so small roads L = local, lanes and very small roads. I'm very surprised there was nothing tell you what county it was in. Probably picked because of that.

[@bruhatthedesk5118]

When i read Welkom, it went like, oh i was there a month ago.

[@Mainhill1]

Can't wait for the mission

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

They have a town called Welcome in South Africa? Interesting. Must be very welcoming

[@inaweoftheworld]

There is also a very small town called Welcome in North Carolina.

[@dumptruckthegreat9703]

oi please mate. do more travel adventures. i know its a bit costly and such but maybe even an evening stroll would entertain us all. maybe you could take some daring paths across you hometown and skip into people’s backlots. either way it would definitely be quality entertainment with a good chap like you being the star. give it a thought mate. love u!

[@willpiper7880]

What a VOICE! Think you need to do some kind of karaoke for us after that little snippet...

[@topotic3945]

That was Jln Bandung. Jalan means street in Indonesian

[@Staircases]

Nice vid mate!

[@joshquinn4964]

Noooooooooooooo. I not allowed to sign up to your patreon 😭

[@Polopony20.]

I think it's mean to make people pay while so many are out of work.

[@lewispewsey6843]

Exactly I'm the same

[@Mydaboom]

@@Polopony20. it's only $1.

[@georgejones9521]

@@Polopony20. Well this his work as well haha

[@relklarsen]

@@Polopony20. It's literally a dollar though? I don't know anyone who couldn't spare a dollar. It literally converts to 0,8 quid.

[@stormsimmons7039]

today I found a russian flag in one of my rounds, so guessed russia... was actually in kyrgyzstan...

[@Yoshigasm]

Alright ace of base, calm down.

[@zuprArpuz]

I saw the sign, and it opened up my eyes I saw the sign 😅

[@dingoDogMan]

Idea for bingo: A funeral with dancing pallbearers.

[@STO_Pereed]

The first one... Welkom Nissan.. :D That was the sign. :p

[@matteocevolani5885]

KZbin’s recommended algorithm during quarantine: mh I see you are a cartographer, a blacksmith, a lock picker and a mechanical parts restorer.

[@eschelon9067]

You win the comments and KZbin

[@ciarangale4738]

this guy, lockpicking lawyer, alec steele?

[@lillimack1197]

GeoWizard is CEO of not seeing flags right in front of him (last round ;) )

[@gucciotter8098]

Really fun video! Good idea

[@DerekHartley]

O_o 24,957. That's far and away the best I've ever done on one of your challenges.

[@GeoWizard]

Wow. Sterling effort chief.

[@davidr2421]

10:19 There seems to be a chess tournament going on there. Neat.

[@danjeory3659]

That is neat. Good spot. And I bet that building is a chess club because there are guys huddled around a table in the previous shot...

[@TicTac2]

that's how I figured out P. Siantar was the place (was on 2 different places) but I didn't end up finding it anyway

[@phranklyn]

You saw Welkom straight when you opened the map!!

[@Kristofburger]

"Welkom Mall" was visible in the first round, and I happened to know it's a city because of a former MotoGP circuit.

[@mslo7312]

Same

[@liamoneill2200]

In Ireland the meaning of the N and R for Roads is that N=national road a nd R=regional road

[@anttisaarilampi]

24 999 points with no moving! GET IN! That Indonesian one was really tough and I got really lucky: since I couldn't find the street name or anything, I just went for the station as I figured those taxi services could be located nearby. And they were!

[@JustM1kePlays]

As a fairly new subscriber I feel I need to go back and check out how not to travel Europe. Very entertaining video

[@You_do_not_exist_Jack]

It said Bandung Rd. But you weren’t even on Bandung Rd. ‘Kantor’ just means office, so that was the taxi office

[@Samish30]

Woooaaah I got a perfect score on the Indonesian one while I had abandoned the idea, I just watched the shape and orientation of the road with the little curve east, found a random street roughly consistent with it near the Main Street and clicked disinterestedly. I can’t believe it 🤩 Overall 4 perfect scores, but I couldn’t find this ant shit sized lake in Ireland... 24896 pts

[@caralester8255]

guess i can’t watch the mission then, oh well

[@tomwolstencroft8768]

Happy St George's Day to my fellow English

[@breakfastsausage]

I got 24,375! A rare excitement for me to beat you! PS I blasted the I Saw The Sign song the entire time I played :)

[@feetofanomad7056]

A note on Indonesian places, Jalan or Jln. means it's a street name.