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Geoguessr Walkthrough 1
Geoguessr is an online geography game. That may sound like the most boring thing you’ve ever hear but it’s actually very interesting if you’re a newbie in OSINT. A big part of OSINT is GEOSINT, that is, being able to look at a photo a understanding where it was taken using different techniques.
Geoguesser drops you into a Google street view session but without any of Google’s normal map aids such as links, bookmarks, etc and you have a time limit to find yourself on their map. If you can do it within a certain number of meters/feet, then you get more points.
For this walkthough, I’m going to start with a Classic Map set to World. I am setting the time limit to infinite so we can do this slowly.
Let’s Get started with the interface. #
This is an example of the screen that you will see.
- On the top is the time that you have left. The free tier of Geoguessr let’s you play for 5 minutes every 15 minutes. An experienced player can usually finish a map in well under the time allotted.
- In the upper-right had corner is current round. If you are playing to finish maps, then you can see which map you’re on.
- In the bottom-right corner is the world map. It is here that you need to zoom in and place your pin where in the world you think you are.
Let’s do our first map! #
What do we see?
We see corn:
We see leafy trees, not just pines: