Coaxial wrote: 
Thanks for playing a game that included a photo of a place we go camping every year. KRACHOWNK!!!!! New personal best!

 islander wrote: 
Well done, sir.

 Coaxial wrote: 
You won the challenge with 16343 points against 14668. I made a luckier guess on medical marijuana.  

8,795 - no panning at all.

14668

360 degree panning only.

 Manbird wrote: 
Me too - sometimes it's good to do the stand still and look around thing, and sometimes it's fun to go poking around for clues - especially in the more rural areas. I had one where the only possible clue was a truck with the words "Department Of Transportation" on it, but the name of the municipality was sadly obscured. I was wrong by two continents and a hemisphere.

 islander wrote: 

 Coaxial wrote: 
That's what I've been doing. It's also what I use to justify my horrible scores. I won't cheat because I fear my scores would still suck and I wouldn't have an excuse.

 Coaxial wrote: 
I like playing both ways. It's fun to move around and maybe even do a little googling.
I usually pick a rule and stick to it for the entire game. I never read on the website
if there's a preferred set of rules.  

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yeah, apparently parts of Australia look a lot like western Oklahoma.

 Manbird wrote: 

 Manbird wrote: 
I really like the ones that make you think you know exactly where it is, but turn out to be 10000 miles different. 

 Coaxial wrote: 
If that's what you did then cool, we'll adhere to that.
 
This one I just got though, It's hard and I'm going to crack it. I'll let you know from the get-go that I'm using all the tools I can think of (down to trying to figure out what brand of bicycle it is)  

10,439

I looked around a bit on a couple of 'em.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I thought the rule was just 360 degree panning from where you start.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I found there were 5 or 6  really common regions: Brazil, the greater Pacific Northwest, Japan, Australia and Northern Europe. Oh, and Eastern Europe/Russia. If you can just guess the general region you can do well. 

 Manbird wrote: 
Yep.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Greece has some financial issues. They can no longer afford 360 degrees.  Also, the two dimensions you see are the same two they are living in as well. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Eucalyptus everywhere. When in doubt, just drop a pin in Australia. 

 islander wrote: 
Yeah, makes me wish I were better at plant tax...
 
I just got one with no scrolling at all. It's a street view, if you look down you can see a bicycle wheel, but it's just one point, by a shore somewhere. But in the bottom corner where it says ©Google, this one's in Greek, so... 
edit: there's no street view at all in Greece?