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cesium133:
Generally the arid desert / straight road / nothing for miles places tend to be Australia. Plus you can use the lines on the road to narrow it down in cases where there aren't other clues: white dashed lines in the center usually mean you're in Australia or Europe. Double yellow lines in the center mean you're in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, or maybe Mexico. Single yellow line in the center usually means you're in Mexico.
edit -- another way you can narrow down locations is just by knowing things about where Google Maps has Street View, and when the pictures were taken. If you see a picture with really bad image quality, chances are you're in the U.S., because Google was using lower-resolution cameras when they started out. The challenge there, though, is that with the lower resolution, signs are unreadable.
jwhouk:
And Google doesn't update the street view much.
bhtooefr:
Hell, a year or so ago, I saw a Street View car on the freeway near my apartment, and inadvertently sooted it (had bad boost control on my diesel car). Still hasn't updated (the current image is from 2007), although maybe me sooting it ruined the image. :P
cesium133:
I just managed to get within 27 m of a location... it gave me an offramp from I-5 in Rogue River, Oregon that was easy to identify.
jwhouk:
I manage at times to get within 10 meters of the exact spot. I do occasionally wonder what a "perfect score" would be in the game.
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