This Geoguessr map was made for me (British towns/cities from above) [PLAY ALONG]

[@rigatuni994]

Thanks for playing my Map :) I really appreciate it! For me personally the new version of the script is also a bit laggy sometimes. Could be bcause it's mapbox satellite and not Bing anymore. The radius of the image varies in the versions. It should be 15 km so you should have easily seen the sea in Neath and Newcastle, which you can see in the older version of the script. Btw: you may now also view the location in 3D by right clicking and dragging the map, which is a really cool new feature in the v6.

[@TenderHooligan]

Love that you picked stour, I recognised instantly

[@rigatuni994]

@@jaydenakehurst have you installed the script?

[@housercomedy6242]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/amHTZXl5hslnjMk

[@kippdanielson6413]

@@rigatuni994 how?

[@rigatuni994]

@@kippdanielson6413 you have too install the extension Tampermonkey and then follow the instructions in the map description

[@FCBfullMatch]

"I really have looked at Britain a LOT on Google Earth" is an early candidate for understatement of the century.

[@rhys7homas]

I'm from Neath and knew the first one straight away, but hearing you say 'Is that the River Neath' blew me away. You're cracked

[@simoncummings3792]

took me all of 2 second to recognise it haha 🤣

[@doctor_gibbo1392]

Me too, was half expecting him to start giving the history of Stockhams bakery or the topless barmaids in the Highlander.

[@rhys7homas]

@@doctor_gibbo1392 I wouldn’t put it past him 😂

[@The_NSeven]

I was lucky to just zoom straight in on it when I tried

[@MysteryOfMovies]

@@doctor_gibbo1392 You got me interested in visiting Neath with that last part...

[@mikedang3613]

Lag could be caused by Hardware Acceleration in your browser settings, likely not your computer's hardware. Test if performance is better with hardware acceleration on or off. Common issue with Geoguessr among my friends. Note: you will need to restart your browser EACH TIME to test performance when enabling or disabling hardware acceleration.

[@ozrrrr]

+1

[@tyrigrut]

Thanks, this worked for me

[@DannyHexUK]

+1 This

[@kadoen]

I've found firefox works much much better than chrome in this game

[@BadgerStyler]

It's also worth trying a few different browsers, sometimes certain sites have issues with one of them

[@MichaelHowardSorrell]

I'm a borough councillor in Basingstoke, I actually represent the ward where the coordinates were, so I recognised this straight away. Still very impressed you guessed it so quickly, not being from the south!

[@joelgilby]

i instantly recognised it too 😂

[@kirstyf]

I live in Andover, and jokingly said "could be Basingstoke" then was like '...hang on.."

[@chase5298]

England is a wild place with wild names and wild titles, god bless.

[@map-reduce]

You can probably thank Douglas Adams for a lot more people knowing Basingstoke than really should :)

[@saucebowl.1405]

im from tunbridge wells and i knew it straight away lmao

[@flammea_]

I love how he apologizes for lagging and then proceeds to fix it by opening and closing the recording window and reminding the computer how much it cost

[@Mag_Nus32]

Long time fan but worth commenting just to say I particularly enjoyed this video, all the facts and bits of info ('Here's where they're demolishing everything for HS2' for example) really made it a quality watch. I hope the lag gets sorted and you do more of these! Speedruns would be fun but it's your insight, hunches and thinking out loud that absolutely make these videos.

[@TomMorran]

Well said.

[@jackhstproductions649]

10:05 knowing about trains helps because the blue and red stagecoach livery and the 12 Carriges indicates that this is in the South West. They are South West Trains / South Western Railway class 450s (depending on when this photo was taken)

[@otterlyamazing2605]

I knew it was Basingstoke because of the train and the station.

[@pigeoncubes]

fairly sure the shiny thing in the first round is an plane, usually they move faster than the satellite captures an image and it leaves an interesting holographic mark vaguely plane-shaped. on google maps, it's often rainbow coloured, but bing might use a slightly different image capture method that gives it such a cool look

[@emmittwhite1290]

tonight… i see an plane, Richard gets a glitched round in Argentina, and James says “are we filming?”

[@--LZ---]

@@emmittwhite1290 Tonoit, on bo''o'm geeeeaaar maates.

[@gerardacronin334]

A plane was the first thing I thought of. A pink and white plane. Wizz Air perhaps?

[@seraphina985]

That is an aerial photo, resolution is far far higher than the top of the line 10 metre per pixel commercial satellite imagery out there. Still it probably is something in the air though when a moving camera is artificially fixating on a point in the background ie the ground in this case it can make objects in between appear to be moving very fast. This is of course what a camera trying to take a stable non blurry image of the ground will be doing to correct for the motion of the aircraft, focus on a point, take the exposure, focus on next point, repeat; all using a motorised gimbal camera mount to get the shots.

[@ells5656]

This is false this guy works for the US government in area 51. He is just trying to cover up the existence of aliens!

[@olih27]

Basingstoke was such a great shout early on. As soon as you mentioned it I noticed all the roads I used to use for work.

[@sosexyimsexy2567]

1 ❤️ Hermosa eleccion baby-girls.id/AGNEZ de mejor 2 ( elecciones ) 9.5/10 3 ( culturales ) 9.3/10 Son unos de los mejores conciertos. .

[@nashhamster]

Tom! My late grandmother always watched Coronation street. Thanks for that call back to the show - I haven't heard the theme song since I last watched it with her. Thanks for the nice memory and the great videos as always. :)

[@CammoCan]

Really enjoyed this video, as a West Mids resident myself, I thought it would be Meadowhall on that last one aswell, never would have guessed it would be Merry Hill 😂😂

[@rogink]

My first thought was somewhere around Dudley as it looked like the M5. First one I thought - that's the M1 so the location must be Rotherham :) I can't believe he took so long on the Newcastle location - how many rivers have all those bridges?

[@Gramscifreedom]

I can’t believe Neath came up first. I live about 10 miles away and was joking to myself that the only town I would recognise from satellite view would be Neath. Then when it came up and he said Neath I was doubting him lol

[@Garmonbozia1942]

I love how chill Tom is, I hate when KZbinrs scream at the camera n shit. I love how Tom is himself

[@henry_b1230]

Bring back 20 countries in a row please! It's my fav

[@arnoldmmbb]

Yeahh I love that videos also

[@jorisv207]

You got your wish!

[@henry_b1230]

@@jorisv207 Hehe yep. I'd like to think I made it happen

[@_phiaa]

A lovely Sunday Satelite video, nice one Tom

[@kukatahansa]

"It's not a Roman road, it's a ditch!" Map reads: Roman Rd! Good stuff! Love your content! 😄

[@mattc3581]

Plus, 'I am an expert on UK cities....All-trin-cham!'

[@BrandonM]

Lag is due to the website not the PC, notice when you zoom in on the map(the one you place the marker down) its quite smooth however the other is not. Best ways to fix this either make sure no other applications are running, no extra tabs on the browser, or try new browsers like Opera GX or something else.

[@SKSCOMEDY]

If he has his browser using integrated graphic on his cpu and not gpu that could be a reason/contributor at least. I only say that because it is weird a desktop is working so hard to look at sat maps.

[@DJ3thenew23]

@@SKSCOMEDY He said he paid $1200 for it, he probably doesn’t even have a GPU

[@GameMarks]

@@DJ3thenew23 what 1200$ PC doesn't have a discrete GPU?

[@awogbob]

1200 pounds so 2k usd so probably has a 3060 at least

[@danielthompson6448]

@@GameMarks well £1200 is about $1600 which will get you a pretty solid computer, more than capable enough to handle geoguessr

[@silask.8905]

you can actually select satellite mode for the map within the plug-in , clicking through these buttons in the top right :)

[@AxxLAfriku]

Don't talk to me! I am famous! Don't dislike my good good GOOD videos! Don't talk to me, dear wilas

[@jamesgodden3]

I feel like that would make it way to easy though haha

[@risgilz13]

Isn't this cheating?

[@silask.8905]

@@risgilz13 kinda, but he asked for it in the video

[@muffinpieceyt]

No i think he means that he isn't allowed to put it on

[@kez2k]

I watched this video in hopes of seeing my home town and I was still shocked when it displayed Newcastle! Its always fun seeing your home city on geoguesser

[@devotedframes11]

Wheyyy greetings from Swansea! Keep up the great work!

[@BumbleBeeBryony]

As soon as I saw the thumbnail I instantly knew it was Basingstoke! Those roundabouts are no joke 😅

[@pendolino_pete4621]

A small tip for these UK satellite videos; if you can, zoom into railway lines and see if they are electrified or not. Chances are if they have overhead wires or third rail it will make a difference to the guess

[@RRRRRRP]

some random street in the UK Geowizard: Ah yes behind the so-and-so firestation

[@Merciuh]

That firestation is very very famous in the midlands and is only about 20 minutes from where Tom lives.

[@djapcrumhorne4538]

A bit of Line of Duty was filmed round the back of it and possibly inside it if I remember correctly. There was a bloke in a freezer or summat

[@Bystander333]

Birmingham in seconds! Honestly, would love to watch you doing some City Skylines.

[@QazwerDave]

Loved that you edited in a video clip there !!

[@EmperorBlock]

I just played the germany version of this mode, and the first city that came up was my literal hometown, even the marker was pretty close to the part of the city where I grew up in. That was quite the coincidence.

[@jam8munch811]

I live near Basingstoke and recognised it almost immediately, but I have no idea how Tom plucked this information out of the air on the first guess!!! What a legend he is...

[@tonicblue]

Stourbridge represent! I mean, it was a terribly depressing place that I moved away from as soon as I could nearly 20 years ago but it was nice to see a pin being dropped right next to where I learned to swim.

[@matjenkins6237]

Stourbridge guy here - can’t believe you’ve never experienced the Mezza!

[@jamesdye5452]

I clicked on this thinking “I wonder if my little town will be here” less than 5 minutes in Tom zooms in on my house, love it mate

[@Ho_Lee_Fook]

I'm coming James

[@nathanadams2336]

I recognized that triangle ring road instantly! Didn't get any of the others though, it's fascinating seeing you do these!

[@LuxrayIsEpic]

My day gets a little better each time Bong Davies uploads!

[@lanceanthony198]

Bong

[@LuxrayIsEpic]

@@lanceanthony198 wasn't a typo

[@lanceanthony198]

@@LuxrayIsEpic What is the point of it then

[@LuxrayIsEpic]

@@lanceanthony198 bong is a mildly offensive slur for brits

[@lanceanthony198]

@@LuxrayIsEpic Oh, I thought it was a drug joke. Why you gotta be so mean to dear old Tom

[@iiRedLinkii]

Great video mate, I live in Stourbridge and got it straight away!

[@williamhuang8309]

10:10 As soon as I saw the red-yellow-blue livery I immediately thought South Western Railway. The green train is probably a GWR service.

[@vickiekostecki]

I loved this. I'd love to see you do this again.

[@jaromir_kovar]

a new mission is coming!! Amazing, Tom. I can't relate or understand (until I see it here) what the challenge is (I guess private property issues...?) but Black country - no roads sounds really good!

[@RipBank-]

It's another classic, thank you for your content

[@kawaiisaki3538]

That's cool to know your dad is in Swansea! I was in Cilmaengwyn north of Swansea for 7 years. Loved going to the Mumbles beach and pier.

[@nighthawk1464]

This has been my favourite play along for sure

[@jakeholt9254]

I live in Basingstoke and I had to stop scrolling and click on the video when I recognised the place You hovered over my house for a bit aswell

[@Blueish99]

This was brilliant. The Basingstoke guess was nuts

[@MaxMckayful]

Good having ya back on the GeoGuesser grind. Been fun watching these vids. Though your other projects also appreciated.

[@MrBlackCoffee96]

Nothing like a bit of what you do best!! Reminds me of the spoons series

[@aspzx]

This was the first time I tried the satellite mode for geoguessr and it was surprisingly fun. I managed to guess / deduce the first four but the last one completely stumped me. There is not much to go on when you can't read any signs...

[@TheEvilpot]

It's cool to see a youtuber from brum make it big, congrats man.

[@CharlieRogers50]

"And some of you might be asking how I knew it was Basingstoke..." I'm just waiting for Tom to say, "Look, I'm just really fucking good, ok? And that's that. I didn't get here because I worked hard, I have a gift from God!" Lol

[@Claret1882]

AlthrinCAM 😂. Seriously though i really enjoyed this episode. Please do more of this.

[@astragalusson]

Please continue doing the capitals a few more times :)

[@olakmostas]

Till he has to guess mine country's. Then he can stop

[@JohnyG29]

@@olakmostas Who is mine country?

[@douglazrezende9070]

@@JohnyG29 ill put money its greece

[@apildk]

Not using a wireless connection to your router but a cabled one would help you a lot with a more stabili connection and the lag of downloading the maps quicker and more reliable. Best regards

[@willoughby2427]

@10.15 The trains would be south west trains which was replaced by south western railway more recently and operate in the southwest in areas such as Basingstoke

[@matthewwilliams6270]

Never thought I’d see my place of work on one of your videos😂 nicely done

[@SunnyOst]

Shift+Escape opens task manager for the browser, check if something is using a lot of resources. Ctrl+Shift+Escape opens Windows task manager, check if something is using a lot of resources. A lot of the times you just need to restart the browser or computer to clear out some old junk from the memory.

[@ryanairegaming]

I'm good with computers and I live in Kidderminster (near stourbridge). Happy to help you over zoom :)

[@gwts1171]

There are some great bands from Swansea. The Pooh Sticks! Helen Love! Acrimony! I think some of the guys from Badfinger are from there too.

[@Jobbo73]

I've just watched this while sitting about 100yds from the final marker and my initial thought was Sheffield as well. Recognised the shape of the ring road though. Lovely coincidence!

[@James-mh6fn]

I actually live just 10 mins away from Stourbridge and had absolutely no clue on that last round until you said about the Merry Hill Centre 😂🤦‍♂️

[@PokeFan515]

Having spent a lot of time in Stourbridge, I knew it straight away. Great stuff.

[@awogbob]

To diagnose computer lag: press control+shift+escape. This will open the task manager. Make sure it's in expanded view. From there you can see exactly which part of the computer is working hardest, CPU, Ram or GPU. From there you can see what program is taking the most percentage of resources and what component is working hardest. Sometimes windows runs security updates in the background that slow things down. Hard working computer / lag could be anything really but good to learn the tools to diagnose your own rig. If you find some random program that is hogging resources just google the program name and for sure someone has had your exact problem. Good luck and Godspeed As someone else has said make sure your web browser uses your graphics card and not your cpu this could prevent lag

[@steveparkes]

My initial thought was Stourbridge for that last one, then when you picked out the Merry Hill Centre it threw me off and I thought Cradley Heath. It was all the old railways and canals that tipped me off.

[@Ben_Mdws]

This was great. Loved it.

[@notagoodplayer4842]

this is better than normal geoguessr maps for you, involves more real geography

[@alexbevirt751]

(note, if using a graphics card made by AMD, this will not apply) My best guess for the computer lag would be it trying to run off the wrong graphics card. While I don't know what your setup is and this might be completely wrong, it could be that your computer is using the integrated graphics instead of the actual fancy expensive graphics card. The way to solve this would be to go to your home screen, right click on your homescreen, at the bottom of the list that pops up click on "show more options", then click on "Nvidia control panel" when the panel opens there should be a thing labelled "manage 3D settings" and once you click on that it should display a bunch of settings, but the important one is at the top, where it should say "Preferred graphics processor:" then make sure it is set to "high performance NVIDIA processor"

[@fmfin7711]

basingstoke is very distinct from above as it has that sharp triangle from the corner although still very surprised tom got it so quick

[@fallowed]

The blue and yellow trains (with an unseen touch of red) are South West Trains (SWT) running from Portsmouth in the east to Waterloo and the South West... They're changing their rolling stock though, so, for what it's worth.

[@redditreadouts1837]

Quality content as always - keep it up! 👍

[@AzraelAscendz]

Cheers from Texas! Great video as always Tom, and I noticed you’ve mentioned your bandmates and wanted a refresher on what the name of your band was as I checked it out over a year ago and I’ve forgotten the name, but the music was very good!

[@Svartez]

We're gonna need to hear some songs from that band now you have mentioned it

[@jackpallett8204]

For Stourbridge, the giveaway was the shape of the ring road imo

[@JustLoveForMe]

I was listening but not watching (not that it would have helped much cos I'm shit at maps) but as soon as you mentioned a huge shopping centre my ears pricked up 😂 hi from Dudley!

[@N1ckfurie]

The world cities with 1k population sounds cool, it could be more the style of your a diverse world videos with crazy guesses and whatnot

[@tomhale5876]

i could see my house on the last one! although i didn't realise it was stourbridge until you saw merry hill!

[@meatballg8655]

Figures out it’s Newcastle from the terraced housing and the bridges, but not the very obvious St James’s Park slap bang in the middle of the image, dude is cracked

[@jacko11900]

More of these please, love it

[@alekaidon1364]

I love your love for rivers

[@Dylan-kw8mm]

I love these above ones please do more

[@exactly9099]

Please do the US cities over 100K. That would be interesting to see how well you know American cities.

[@keeperofthecheese]

You can tell Newcastle as soon as you look at it. You've got the eye shaped Bridge with the tall Baltic gallery next to it creating a shadow. And then that weird little t-shaped bridge in the centre of the river further up.

[@siyuanhuo7301]

Also, for any football fans you can clearly see St James' Park, which has an iconic shape where Newcastle United play

[@liamallen100]

I was just so unbelievably bad at this map 🙃 Rounds 1, 2 and 5 were a write-off. I managed to get Round 4 after about half-an-hour of searching through various British towns. It even took me a few minutes to recognise Round 3 and it's my home city; the pin was about 100 yards away from where I play 5-a-side 🤣

[@TubaBluba789]

I recognised Birmingham and round 5 immediately, since I'm from Birmingham

[@ongbonga9025]

@@TubaBluba789 Got Brum, you can't not get it if you're a Brummie or a Yam Yam, Spaghetti Junction is just too obvious. Can't believe I didn't get Stourbridge though, kicking myself for that one.

[@Deathhead68]

Tom you aren't missing out much on merry hill lol, it's like an American mall and full of kids and car parks. More choice than bullring tho

[@emilyx33x]

as a private pilots license holder in the uk, this map is ideal!

[@NewBuildmini]

10:08 It's actually the South West Trains livery. It has now been succeeded by South Western Railway, and some of it's trains still aren't repainted, merely with the new logo on top of the old one.

[@TubaBluba789]

the shopping centre at 16:12 made me realise where it is. It's Brierley Hill in the black country. The shopping centre is called Merry Hill

[@robbutterill1426]

4:59 wasnt sure but soon as as i saw St James’ and the tyne bridge i knew

[@jaykafei4815]

The last one took me ages but the I found the first and fourth immediately which was great. Newcastle, Birmingham were instantly recognisable. Ended up in the top 5!

[@dantromans2203]

Mad. Watching from Stourbridge. Was screaming it as soon as it loaded 😂😂

[@El_Chompo]

To diagnose lag, go to the start menu and type in "Resource Manager" or you can do Control-Shift-Escape to bring up Task Manager and then select the Resource Manager tab. You will see a chart for CPU usage, Memory usage, Network usage, and then in another tab you can see Hard Disk usage. Leave this window open in the background when you are doing your normal computer stuff and then if you experience lag, you can switch back to the resource window and if any one of those charts has maxed out to 100% usage in the last few minutes then you can be pretty sure that that resource is the bottleneck, be it CPU, memory, hard disk, or whatever. Good luck!

[@dmitrukmark]

Mate you are absolutely damn right about this script being laggy, but it has nothing to do with neither your hardware, nor broadband connection. I've got my 48 seconds result on Capitals of the World map, which I believe, still stands as a record. I was lucky enough to hit it literally hours before the script updated and it works terribly slow from there on. Maybe it's not the script to blame here, but rather Bing updates, I don't know for certain. Someone with a better knowledge and understanding of the situation might be able to tell what's going wrong here. For me though, this is a win situation, cause it's not longer possible to beat my result, unless there is a fix to these lags.

[@Mirividual]

It is difficult to diagnose why you computer might be stuttering without any information other than a symptom, but as others have said try turning on/off hardware acceleration. Another thing that comes to mind is that your pc could be thermal throttling (the computer slowing down processing speeds to save itself from overheating) because of bad airflow that could be caused by dust buildup. I will say the second option is most likely not the case, as you said you purchased the computer recently, and the odds of enough dust building up that quickly to thermal throttle a PC is astronomically small. Either way, the video was enjoyable nonetheless. Keep it up!

[@FMDoop]

I got Newcaste before you moved. I saw the football stadium. Great video.

[@pianomind4737]

Well played! Geo Detective in action!

[@GrepidYT]

The fact I clicked on this just to see if my town was on there, it was, and I firmly said when it showed up, "Well this isn't it" and then it was makes me ashamed on so many levels

[@milkloverenterprises3367]

Tom first thing I’d do is check task manager on my pc to see if its another program using my resources, or if its just chrome being wacky

[@blvberryy8025]

check drivers

[@velzun8075]

Guys this is a new pc...

[@patrickf.123]

@@blvberryy8025 What drivers would he check that impacts the chrome performance that badly, I think it's much more likely he has hardware accel disabled.

[@axelnils]

Definitely hardware acceleration in chrome settings

[@blvberryy8025]

@@patrickf.123 dunno or his ram is unplugged LOL

[@AWDizzyBlood]

Amazingstoke!!!!

[@toecutterjenkins]

When lagging open windows task manager click performance. You will see a real-time graph of cpu. Ram, drive, etc. See which one is being taxed . Goto processes tab and see which program is using all the resources and decide whether you need it running. You can do a speed test on your connection. See if you're getting what you paid for , sometimes isp may throttle you for various reasons.

[@odw_99]

Recognised Stourbridge ring road immediately - tends to stick in your mind once you’ve tried driving on it😂

[@TravelSignal]

The Merry Hill centre is quite interesting, not least due to the former monorail it had... I visited it once when at uni (Aston :) )

[@StealthyCactus1]

The Roman road in Basingstoke you pointed out, is literally called "Roman Road"! Also its a Sainsburys depot so close 😉

[@MCDLHOTP]

Funny, Stourbridge was the only one I recognized immediately (although I didn't remember the name), just recognised it because the band Diamond Head is from there.

[@velzun8075]

It sounds like your computer is thermal throttling good sir. I recommend looking into the quality of your cooling. Good video