top 40 most useful geoguessr tips

there is like 1,000 more things i could mention so expect more of these vids dw.

ty to the pros that helped w/ tips:

& many more

chapters:

0:00 intro
0:11 asia
2:20 russia
4:54 europe
7:04 africa
9:01 oceania
11:07 south america
12:44 usa
14:08 canada
15:06 outro

[arizimal]

Bold of you to assume that I know what country we're in in the first place

[stanislavagrahovac]

"nice" "we'll take that" "keep going"
rainbolt's trademark

[margyyn]

6:40 bruh imagine just driving your truck one day and becoming some tip for madlads who speed run the earth

[xann]

I dont even play geoguesser, i just find it very amusing how a meta can be developed out of anything, even irl

[iiKaina]

it’s really awesome that rainbolt is single-handedly making geoguessr a mainstream game, the community has grown so much since he blew up, super happy to have such a great game with such a great community

[ИмяФамилия-хру]

Some Russia tips:
-If you see a blue bus, it must be Moscow or nearby regions
-If you are in a city and you see many small churches it almost always Vologda or Yaroslavl
-Mountains not covered up in anything are usually met right above Mongolia
-If you see a lot of hills in a city that’s almost always Vladivostok
-Poor-looking villages with houses made of wood(not planks!) are definitely in a central part of Russia
-Two-floored building with shops can be met only in Sochi or nearby regions

[LockOn]

Really cool how specific vehicles followed the google car long enough to become a meta in a game

[piggy]

Some Canada Tips:
UPDATE (As of October 8th). THERE IS NOW GENERATION 4 COVERAGE IN THE YUKON AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES THAT JUST RELEASED.
- In Ontario, their province highways are usually trapezoids with numbers, and the big highways use a crown logo.
- In BC, it is very common to see hanging signs off of a post, like the green sign example Rainbolt showed.
- Canada has a checkerboard "end of road" sign, which can't be found anywhere else in the world. (It is in most provinces. Quebec has a different one, which is a large yellow sign with a double-arrowed line normally held up by two metal posts.)
- It is quite common in Quebec for their road signs to be bigger than other provinces like Ontario, and their symbol road signs are commonly have two metal posts holding them up.
- Ontario's plates are mostly blue tinted due to blue text on a white license plate.
- Alberta has exclusive and easy to remember bollards that are VERY common in the province.
- New Brunswick signs are mostly bilingual. Some sections of the province sometimes have only French.
- The transformers on Canada's poles can face different directions. But if they face perpindicular to the driver, those are way more common in the Maritimes, usually New Brunswick, BC, etc. Ontario's transformers normally face parallel.
- It has been mentioned by pros before, but Ontario can have wooden guardrails on the side of their roads, most commonly found in Northern Ontario.
- Vancouver Island has unique vegetation, dominated by pine trees. Pine trees are not exclusive to the island, however.
- Each province has exclusive traffic lights. Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, PEI and the Territories use horizontal traffic lights, while Ontario and the rest of the provinces uses vertical lights.
The thing to remember about Ontario is that most of the time, each traffic light is yellow (sometimes they can be black) and connected to a different streetlight, which separates it from other provinces like the Maritimes, Manitoba, BC, etc.
- Kamloops, BC, and the surrounding valleys are very dry, which look pretty different to the rest of the province. If you see very brown grass and it looks very dry and you know you are in BC, it could be the Okanogan Valley or the Kamloops area.
- Lastly, a bit of a specific hint. There is a town called Inuvik in the Northwest NWT, which has very specific coverage. A white mosque is located in the town, which is very recognizable to know where you are. To confirm, the coverage is taken in Autumn, so the trees are different colours, and particularly short. Other roads up in the Yukon can have short trees, autumn coverage, and Gen 2.
- On Highway 1 in Yukon, you can often see a biker gang on some sections of the highway west of Whitehorse. If you see that, out of my experience you are often closer to the lake along that stretch of road near Kluane Lake.
- The Top Of The World Highway (HWY 2) in the Yukon has specific coverage west of Dawson City near the Alaskan border. It is a very foggy day with black dots on the camera and short trees. It looks very different to the rest of the coverage on that road to the east because of the increase in elevation. (Mentioned by @CanucksFTW)
- New coverage released in Labrador that is Gen 4 and has black spruce trees which are rather short. That coverage is usually on the 389 in Quebec and the 500 in Labrador, which are the same road. (Mentioned by @CanucksFTW)
- Generation 2 Camera is the only coverage taken in the territories. It is very rare to slim that you see Gen 3+ there. If you think you are up North and it is a Gen 3+ camera, you are probably in Alaska.

Hope these tips helped :)

[HarrierGeoGuessr]

Very helpful, definetly learnt a good amount from that. Thanks for sharing Rainbolt :)

[teaganmccluskey]

Every time I see him explain how he guesses, I expect that it’ll make him seem more human… but no. I am in awe

[THBdyuzz]

It's like those perfectly prepared school presentations but this time it's actually about something interesting.

[GeneaVlogger]

I wonder if GeoGuessr pros feel like everywhere is oddly familiar when they travel. Probably would confuse the locals when you tell them so many random mundane facts you've picked up over the years.

[lnorlnor]

It's wild how much I learn about places I have actually lived from videos like this . . . Like the "totally normal telephone poles" I saw every day for 20+ years turn out to be found nowhere else? WILD.

[Geostique]

that patreon in the description looking epic

[dahner]

Someone should make an interactive map with all these tips. Would be a great website

[kcthomas]

"If I see a blue sky, I think Earth" is pretty much as far as my geo guesser knowledge extends.

[leowaldbaumApush]

Million dollar video idea: Diverse world but you get 25 pins to put around the world map before the game starts and you can only guess on those pins so you try to figure out where the most geo guessing happens and try to predict it like a heat map

[MikeD]

I bet pros like Rainbolt don't even look at signs. There could be like this huge sign saying "WELCOME TO BRISBANE" and they'll be like: "Yeah, these bollards are very specific for the Brisbane region, so I'm gonna go there." *destroys space bar* Nice.

[gavinfoolery]

i joined the patreon
i cant wait to get to know you guys better, i really look up to you

[szymon_pl]

Also some tips:
-Colombian Cars have yellow plates on both sides of the car, vehicles in Colombia that carry out specific tasks, for example trucks also have a license plate o the side of the vehicle.
-Puerto Rico has no front plates
-(Not Sure) Malaysia or Indonesia doesn't require Motorbike riders to wear helmets.
-Poland is the only country to use these letters: Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ś, Ź, Ż
-If in Europe, and you see a lot of umlauts (two dots above letters), and single dashes above letters you will be in Hungary.
-If the country looks British/Irish and u have English language but also as a different language in a different font, you are in Ireland, potentially Wales.
-When seeing rifts in the sky in a European-climate country you are in Montenegro or Macedonia (someone correct me)
-Yellow filled circular signs in Europe-climate are found in mainly Sweden and Finland.
-European (Union) license plates have a blue strip on the left of the plate.
-If you appear on an ISLAND with a flock of birds, you will be on Midway Atoll, especially the Eastern Island
To find Midway Atoll, I just go to the Time Difference line on the Pacific, and at the height of Hawaii, just zoom in slightly and you'll see it
-A Town ending in -owo will be in Northern Poland (There is one exception but compared to the other 1000 towns that are North you probably won't get it)
-When in Taiwan, the telephone numbers are organised so that Taipei begins with 01 or 1, and then the numbers go up, as you go down the western coast, so that the town at the south (Kaohsiung) begins with 06 or 6, then beginning with 07 or 7, you will be anywhere on the western coast.
-My biggest tip when playing Geoguessr is to look at the billboards, or advertised boards the most out of anything, as they supply you with a two letter code at the end of a link, or email, giving you the exact country you're in.