I mean, I just watched music videos, be like, oh, I can't consume content without trying to find the road or, like, trying to find, like, what country it's in.ĭAVIS: Rainbolt, who works for a publisher on Snapchat and has experience making viral digital content, says that mastering Google Maps has changed the way he views the world. The music videos were just kind of a way to diversify my content at first because I was just doing it organically in my free time. From there, I identified these islands shown earlier as the Phi Phi Islands in south Thailand, where I. Immediately with left-hand driving, black painted pole bottoms and this telephone pole, I knew we were going to be in Thailand. RAINBOLT: Finding the street from this music video.ĭUKE DUMONT: (Singing) As long as I got you. That's Austria.ĭAVIS: Rainbolt is so good at the game, he can also identify where random music videos are shot. RAINBOLT: Guessing where I am on Google Maps in 0.1 second but only using half of the image. You're learning road conditions, road length, license plates, car types, vegetation. RAINBOLT: You know, a lot of it is just memorizing different things in different countries, including knowing what countries have what road lines, what countries use triple white road lines, what country has dash road lines, what country has green signs, what font they use on their sign, how many pedestrian crossing walks they have on their pedestrian signs. He's become a sensation for identifying the locations correctly and incredibly fast.
Rainbolt posts videos of himself playing the game on TikTok.
It's a game that pulls random images from Google Street View and makes the player guess the location anywhere on the planet. (SOUNDBITE OF ANTONIO VIVALDI'S "L'INVERNO")ĭAVIS: That's 23-year-old Trevor Rainbolt playing GeoGuessr. I'm just going to go New Zealand here, South Island. Round two looks like New Zealand immediately with the soil color.
RAINBOLT: Slight more east, but was north Bots (ph). I'm going to go with north Botswana here. OK, round one here, we have light gray soil, very arid climate. TREVOR RAINBOLT: Guessing where I am on Google Maps but only using the dirt. But have you ever thought about playing it as a game? Enter GeoGuessr. That little GPS app in your pocket can show you the world, tell you how to get there and help you find the best food in that city. You're probably pretty familiar with Google Maps.
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