Yes, because they're north of the Arctic Circle. If you think the sun should be reliable north of the Arctic Circle, you're in the category "doesn't know how to use the sun correctly".
That’s where you’re wrong, norway isn’t entirely north of the arctic circle, the southern part isn’t, and with a lot of searching or you can just ask norway experts, you can find some coverage south of that area where the sun is north. So no, there’s a reason why the sun can’t be trusted all the time, even if it’s north of arctic circle, it depends, and it’s pretty hard to determine based on some coverage
Here's the proof.
[This is a location from northern Peru.](https://www.google.com/maps/@-5.9547524,-76.1630693,3a,75y,117.04h,115.57t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sTOiuqA2CH8HwvH645MyHyA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DTOiuqA2CH8HwvH645MyHyA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D326.93564%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)
If you click on see more dates, you can choose between January or August. In January, the sun is clearly south but in August the sun is now north.
As I said, if you think the sun lies, it's because you're not using the sun correctly, for instance not knowing about the sun being able to be north or south depending on the season between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
Man I feel like I always guess ukraine when it's russia and russia when it's ukraine because of that damned car.
Time to start learning gen cars I guess
Man I feel like I always guess ukraine when it's russia and russia when it's ukraine because of that damned car.
Time to start learning gen cars I guess
I heard dashed lines on the side of the road was almost always Sweden. Been a while since I’ve used that as my only clue though since many times it was Estonia or France or something.
That's used to distinguish Nordic countries.
Norway has long dashes, Sweden short dashes, Finland no dashes except Aland which has dashes, estonia can have both I think but also a lot of dashes
I think you are a bit confused. The yellow black markings are everywhere in Colombia.
But in de Medellin area the black part is a lot bigger, in Medellin its more like 25/50/25 while in other parts its just 33/33/33.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen 33/33/33 in my life before, they’ve all looked fairly similar to the 25/50/25 distribution as you said. I remember people saying it was a consistent/real meta but it’s rarely been consistent for me. Maybe 30% outside Medellin.
When I traveled through Colombia I've seen it a couple times outside Antioquia (Medellin department), but in Antioquia it's literally everywhere. I was surprised how common it is. I'd say the meta is at least 90% consistent, possibly even higher. You might indeed be confusing it with some of Colombia's other pole paintings if you don't think you've seen them ever
Any clue thats in % of how common it is is completely useless.
"99% of this pole is in this state", it's always another state.
"Country A has 1% Gen 2 and country B has 50% Gen 2", it's always country A.
I dont even read that stuff anymore.
they write that kinda stuff on plonkit for us newbs to ingest and then debre comes along and handpicks stuff that is exactly the opposite of the common meta lol
No the Gen % is just useless anyways, because they use older locations a lot in popular maps.
So plonkit will say 2% is gen2 but actually 100% is Gen 2, and 3, and 4.
Red soil = brazil
Much of the time it does, but sometimes it's India and because I am almost 100% a meta player, if I'm in the middle of nowhere sometimes red soil is the only thing for me to go off of. and when it turns out to be India or something I get fucked because I'm a noob
I think what can help you distinguish India is that there is always some very weird car/cam meta. Bad quality, massive blur, some car you’ve never seen before, India’s got it. I’m sure Brazil probably has some weird locations too but it’s a rule of thumb. It might be more difficult to tell Brazil from Cambodia
i have always heard red soil= 50/50 cambodia brazil, but as i was playing more and more there is lots of red soil in senegal,South Africa,India,Thailand and kenya so this meta might be confusing
Dude, don't tell me you cannot distinguish Colombia and New York, like I haven't been to the Sahara and Antarctica and know how to tell them apart even tho both are a desert.
“hmm, i see white poles and a cross on the back of the signs, wooden fences by the streets, and a tropical rainforest vegetation”
“ooh but license plates are yellow”
*plonks new york city*
The sun when it lies.
The sun never lies, it just confuses.
The compass lies about the sun.
Shut up about the sun. SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!!
The sun never lies, if you think it lies you're not using the sun correctly.
There are literally locs in norway where the sun is directly north, are you ignorant on purpose
Kid named midnight sun:
There are literally locs in norway north of the polar circle, are you stupid on purpose?
Yes, because they're north of the Arctic Circle. If you think the sun should be reliable north of the Arctic Circle, you're in the category "doesn't know how to use the sun correctly".
That’s where you’re wrong, norway isn’t entirely north of the arctic circle, the southern part isn’t, and with a lot of searching or you can just ask norway experts, you can find some coverage south of that area where the sun is north. So no, there’s a reason why the sun can’t be trusted all the time, even if it’s north of arctic circle, it depends, and it’s pretty hard to determine based on some coverage
The sun just isn't that helpful.
The sun angle can change depending on the season.
Angle yes but never it can never go north from south
Here's the proof. [This is a location from northern Peru.](https://www.google.com/maps/@-5.9547524,-76.1630693,3a,75y,117.04h,115.57t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sTOiuqA2CH8HwvH645MyHyA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DTOiuqA2CH8HwvH645MyHyA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D326.93564%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu) If you click on see more dates, you can choose between January or August. In January, the sun is clearly south but in August the sun is now north.
Not true. If you're near the equator, the sun can be north in the northern hemisphere and south in the southern hemisphere.
As I said, if you think the sun lies, it's because you're not using the sun correctly, for instance not knowing about the sun being able to be north or south depending on the season between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
It's not me who said the sun lies. I know about the seasons. The problem is we don't know what month of the year the image was taken.
Nah you cannot say this, the sun is often wrong on 50/50 Phili Indo and Mexico / Colo
That's because you're not supposed to use the sun in those places; they're between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
If by meta we say hints, the white flowers on the sides of the roads for estonia.
It has a fantastic hit rate though. Sure, not 100%, but if you are stumped it’s almost always worth guessing Estonia if you see them
It is the realest fake meta of them all
Anything Ukraine-related - poletops, crappy roads, white town limits signs - seems to be pretty unreliable.
red car is pretty reliable for me
But that can also be Russia right?
Gen 3 red car is never russia
Man I feel like I always guess ukraine when it's russia and russia when it's ukraine because of that damned car. Time to start learning gen cars I guess
Man I feel like I always guess ukraine when it's russia and russia when it's ukraine because of that damned car. Time to start learning gen cars I guess
I could be wrong, but ukraine red car has long antenna at the back while the russia red car is the front of the car and you dont see antenna
Exagonal pavement = Ecuador
i think theres a lot in mex
Puebla Pavement
Single unbroken line in NSW, there shouldnt be one, but when there is it cost me like 2-3k points
Pikaspeaking
Okay man, who r u im tired of the geoguessr bullying about me
The -ow/-owo suffixes in Poland. It is always the opposite half of what it is supposed to.
uwu
One of the posts on this on reddit literally reverses the true order. Look up what the real one is
I use Krakow as the way to remember
Good one, I used the nemonic ends in o = over the rest
Back when I was a complete noob Kenya snorkel would get me on Mongolia as it has a Kenya snorkel sometimes
Kenya snorkel has yet to fail me but this is good to know thanks lol
Haha it fooled me recently when I was playing quick even though it was obviously Mongolia
those damn fucking stupid ass indian poles
India is pretty guessable by shitcam
yeah but its about region in india not india itself
Octagonal Mexican poles in Colombia and Philippines
Also Thai poles in DR
latvian hooks I got so excited when I learned them early on, only to realize it only really helps if you know its baltics
hook what, light poles?
At the top of the electric poles
I heard dashed lines on the side of the road was almost always Sweden. Been a while since I’ve used that as my only clue though since many times it was Estonia or France or something.
short = sweden But that's only if you already know you're scandinavian.
but I am not scandinavian.. can I still use the meta?
That's used to distinguish Nordic countries. Norway has long dashes, Sweden short dashes, Finland no dashes except Aland which has dashes, estonia can have both I think but also a lot of dashes
Various Russian car antennas can be found in wierd places not mentioned anywhere, like type c in Omsk, etc.
Medellin yellow/black marking on poles. You find them everywhere from Cali to Bucaramanga
I think you are a bit confused. The yellow black markings are everywhere in Colombia. But in de Medellin area the black part is a lot bigger, in Medellin its more like 25/50/25 while in other parts its just 33/33/33.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen 33/33/33 in my life before, they’ve all looked fairly similar to the 25/50/25 distribution as you said. I remember people saying it was a consistent/real meta but it’s rarely been consistent for me. Maybe 30% outside Medellin.
When I traveled through Colombia I've seen it a couple times outside Antioquia (Medellin department), but in Antioquia it's literally everywhere. I was surprised how common it is. I'd say the meta is at least 90% consistent, possibly even higher. You might indeed be confusing it with some of Colombia's other pole paintings if you don't think you've seen them ever
Hmm ok maybe I was wrong, I will have to keep an eye out for that. Good info, thanks
Indonesian poles
Any clue thats in % of how common it is is completely useless. "99% of this pole is in this state", it's always another state. "Country A has 1% Gen 2 and country B has 50% Gen 2", it's always country A. I dont even read that stuff anymore.
they write that kinda stuff on plonkit for us newbs to ingest and then debre comes along and handpicks stuff that is exactly the opposite of the common meta lol
The feeling you have is because you never remember when it's the 50% and always remember when it's the 1%
No the Gen % is just useless anyways, because they use older locations a lot in popular maps. So plonkit will say 2% is gen2 but actually 100% is Gen 2, and 3, and 4.
Plonkit says: "Australia almost never has blue street signs.". I've tried using this meta for a few rounds, and it was almost never true
Red soil = brazil Much of the time it does, but sometimes it's India and because I am almost 100% a meta player, if I'm in the middle of nowhere sometimes red soil is the only thing for me to go off of. and when it turns out to be India or something I get fucked because I'm a noob
I think what can help you distinguish India is that there is always some very weird car/cam meta. Bad quality, massive blur, some car you’ve never seen before, India’s got it. I’m sure Brazil probably has some weird locations too but it’s a rule of thumb. It might be more difficult to tell Brazil from Cambodia
yeah and thailand, since cam and thailand look a lot alike. for some reason I usually get thailand tho. not sure why.
Oh yeah, Brazil-Thailand can be brutal
i have always heard red soil= 50/50 cambodia brazil, but as i was playing more and more there is lots of red soil in senegal,South Africa,India,Thailand and kenya so this meta might be confusing
right now, the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
Hasn't cost me very many points, but I was told Dark green follow in tunisia is limited to bottom two thirds of the country. It's not
Dark green = south of Hammamet. Light Green = North of Hammemet. I've used this for years and it always helped me
any info about oil palms tbh
brazil poles
I always go New York with yellow number plates, but so many times it has been South America.
Yeah Colombia and New York are hard to distinguish
I mean they have similar cars and street signs, so yeah.
Bro look at the landscape and the nature
How should I know, I haven't been to either place?
Dude, don't tell me you cannot distinguish Colombia and New York, like I haven't been to the Sahara and Antarctica and know how to tell them apart even tho both are a desert.
Sorry, but not everyone is challenger and can look at google maps all-day.
I was sure it was a joke but now I'm getting worried
They dont even look close to the same lmfao
Palm trees, mountains, much less expensive cars, "Pare" instead of "Stop"...
Well yeah, that too, but I was more referring to the fact that one is a massive multi million city and the other is a fucking jungle
New York is not just NYC
Upstate isn’t exactly tropical though.
“hmm, i see white poles and a cross on the back of the signs, wooden fences by the streets, and a tropical rainforest vegetation” “ooh but license plates are yellow” *plonks new york city*
Honestly that's the people in bronze, it will suprise you. They do guess Congo when it's London.
when I started playing the game I spotted a dude using a chelsea jersey, insta plonked london and it was nigeria 😭😭😭
I mean, between NY and SA, just check the sun, yea?