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This guy can look at any Google Map image for 0.1 seconds and immediately figure out where in the world it is [1]
['Mark Frauenfelder']
Date: 2022-07-12
Trevor Rainbolt is the world champion of a Google Map game called GeoGuessr. The object of the game is to look at a Google Street View image and then pinpoint it on a world map. Rainbolt plays GeoGuessr eight hours a day, and he can tell where a photo was taken just by looking at the dirt.
From a Washington Post video:
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