Pinpointing the exact location of my fans using a single image ..GEO DETECTIVE #11
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2021
- We leave the mountains and enter the city with these two hopefully gettable European looking snaps. I shall return for Hugo Dudesworthy and Josh Jerry Janulus as soon as I get a decent break from the editing, but for now it'll be a couple of easier ones. Hope you enjoy.
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poor thing, he added "the picture might be flipped" to the list of fears, along "am I recording?"
Tom's fears so far. Not recording. Is photo flipped, angry farmer. :p
also "is the compass correct"
This comment has me in stitches
"Cathedral of Our Lady of Hungary in Szeged"
Tom: "Oh where is that then? I hate how they don't tell you where these things are."
Spoken like a true detective.
I mean, it only said "Hungary" three times...
Or maybe worst: "......Its in the USA or Australia, but it´s inspired"
🤣, 21:32 if anyone is wondering. 22:05 again …
Wtf , now my enjoyment is ruined, knowing he's as dumb as a post 😭
@@HPalivec Funnily enough, he probably misread "twinspired", which is only one letter away
I like how Tom tried to "figure out" how to pronounce a name he came up with.
16:37 haha never change Tom
Yaaaas verf is a geo fan! Bk to karamja
I came to the comments as soon as he said that and find Verf lol
shoutout runescape
A man of culture, I see
Who is verf
22:08 "I hate how they don't tell you where these thing's are" as it says Hungary 3 times around the image. It's truly astonishing how tom can be so good and have to many blind spots at the same time.
That was hilarious 😂
I was looking for this comment!
"Europe twin church towers" and it's immediately right there, ten seconds. It's somehow amazing how Tom overthinks these. I love the videos though!
Same with “the old town Europe” found Tallinn immediately
"old town white tower" got me there right away
"Tall white spire Europe old town" got me it instantly
for the second photo i googled twin steeple clock tower....i spotted the clock faces and found it!!!
Google is probably affecting the search algorithm after you watch this. Amost every city in Europe has an "old town"
From his folder named "WALES 3" I cleverly deducted that the next straight line mission, might in fact, pass through Wales
he also has a black country one and from what he has been saying in recent videos it seems that he recorded multiple
‘Wales pink line’ in recent google earth searches too
Genius
No, he actually misspelled "whales" and there are three whales.
Lots of people commenting about how much more efficient Tom could be with search terms, but this isn't a speedrunning series. Half the enjoyment is seeing Tom get an idea and watching him explore the idea and rule things out in his own way. It shows his own curiosity and interest in a meandering sort of way which really makes it a GeoWizard video, and I love that.
Completely agree with that.
Well said!
Maybe so, but that Tallinn old town round was stressful to watch, especially since he didn't think to Google Tallinn. In the wise words of Sips, I was "ripping my dick off." 😂😂
Yeah but it’s annoying sometimes when he misses an obvious clue like the old town. A lot of the enjoyment for me is that Tom is so much smarter than me at least when it comes to geography so in the odd case when I’m able to find something faster than him it makes it almost hard to watch 😂.
I think people just want him to blast through 10 of these an episode so they can get a chance to be in it themselves.
Ever thaught of doing a perfect circle mission or something else like that?
Could be interesting to plan especially if you still went coast to coast with it. Plus a super satisfying map at the end!
Good idea, sad that the reactions are spam.
@@bjuny6481 yeh... Its annoying :(
that reminds me of that woman in LA that goes for jogs and maps out dirty pictures with her routes... lol
Everyone report the spam comments, youtube will eventually delete the accounts
@@bjuny6481 Yeah, CZcams is having a real problem with that lately. They seem to be in the replies of every channel I watch.
Hello, Julietta Frelsenthember here \o_
Gosh, I had to triple-check just to make sure to spell my own name right :'D
It was very funny watching you look at images of the Cathedral of Szeged at 6:29, knowing what's coming haha :'D Szeged is a beautiful city, my favourite one in Hungary, you should definitely visit.
It was fairly easy for you, but it was still so much fun to watch - just as all the Geo Detective episodes. I'm happy I could be part of it :)
Ah, yes. Like you said. He got it already when he searched for the first picture :)
You gotta being watching this laughing with your hand over your mouth, gasping at certain points, right? How fun this must have been for you! I’m an actual retired police detective in the US and Tom’s processing style reminds me so much of what goes into a typical criminal investigation. Not in the context of finding a location per se, but as in the dissection of such small bits of data. This is the part no one really sees in my world, just the results. Very seldom ever have I had to testify to process that led me to the result. So to see Tom’s methodologies is impressive, especially considering he’s self taught, whereas I spent 20 years developing my skill through trainings. Such tedious work in trying to notice what you see in front of you. The minutia is so important, and Tom does a great job with that. Congrats to you on what must have been such a cool moment that you’ve been looking forward to for a while now.
@@Retired_Detective51 So cool! I think I'm a bit like Tom myself, but I don't really have that accurate "feeling" of different countries and regions like he has (yet), but the methodology and attention to small details. I have traveled far less than Tom has. However I managed to find that place in London where Tom failed, just a couple of hours after he released the video. I got a little guidance that it most likely was London, but the astonishing fact that I found the location just by randomly clicking different regions in London where I looked for the same style of architecture. It felt like a bit of a achievement to beat Tom, especially in London :) Maybe a bit of luck, but I've also found the locations of pictures he hasn't attempted to find yet, that he just has glanced at so far.
Maybe I should have become a detective instead of a computer and electronics engineer. Maybe I could do both? :)
Oh, editing the comment removed Tom's heart reaction :/
@@AgnesN Maybe he can't "re-heart" it once it's been edited, even if he wants. The "silver lining" for you is that I subscribed to your channel!
25:30 "And then there this kind of ...blob of electricity stuff". Spoken like a true engineer Tom haha :D
The reason why the spire in Tallinn doesn’t show under “churches” is that the building is actually their town hall. Many old European town halls share that design element with churches. But you solved the puzzle impressively fast anyway!
At 6:30 the second church already pops up in the google images. You could have hit two birds with one stone!
lol!
I was so angry when he missed them, but I kinda understand it, while searching for a very specific thing, your mind is set to a very narrow goal and will filter out everything else.
@@Meg_A_Byte hahaha "so angry" must be a angry type
I also noticed that 😂😂
"says hungary multiple times"
tom: I wish it told you where it was
Ikr...
And says it has twin spires..
Take a shot for every time the church from the second photo appears in the search result for the church in the first photo. Take another one for every time the words "szeged" or "votive" are visible next to it. Take two for good measure, when Tom stops and hovers over such a picture. The time frame is pretty tight, so you might be a little buzzed by now. You are probably still not drunk enough to NOT remember that you have just seen it in the same session, though.
Yah, I was laughing how much Szeged church kept popping up in searchs :D
6:30 for people looking for when the second picture's church is visible in the searches for the first tower xD
My personal favourite is 22:08, when he says “so where is that then? I hate how they don’t say where these things are” when the title of the stock photo is “the tower of the votive church in Szeged, Hungary”
I don't drink but I still feel as if!🥴
When we learned it was a church in Hungary, I was like... wait he did just search churches in Hungary in the last picture and yes at 6:30 you see right on his screen a better picture of the churche (with the two towers) than what he ended up finding. 🙃
And how many spots should I drink when he wonders, which country the cathedral of our lady of Hungary is located in.
Cannot wait for the next straight line mission!
"I crossed russia in a straight line"
@@MarcusVinicius-fh1cl 🤣🤣🤣imagine
@@MarcusVinicius-fh1cl I wish man, ofc from west to east or viceversa, not North-South.
@@Z3t487 Even north-south would be over 20x the other distance of the other challenges - double in Siberia plus the weather.
Is not straight, but "From Lisbon to Vladivostok on foot mission" would be incredible. Like crossing the Eurasian continent
Cheers!
Juho Huheyo here, a Finn as a lot of people have already pointed out. Loved to see you meander through pretty much every other possible white church tower in Europe and getting there eventually :P Tallinn really is a must-see place, beautiful as all hell. Love your candid personality and the genuine interest you have towards your viewership, can't wait enough for the straight line mission!
If I ever get to Estonia, I'll definitely visit the famous place where Juho Huheyo stood.
As a fellow Finn, I could tell the picture was from Tallinn just by your name and the "old town" tag on the photo.
Tallinn's historical old town looks so pretty ! I'd love to visit that place
Went there this summer, it was actually a very stunning old town!
pre-recording the geoguessr videos is very thoughtful of you that way we don't get spoilered on whether you survived the mission or not
Website: Szeged, Hungary - Our Lady of Hungary is a twin-spired church in Szeged.
Tom: I hate how they won't tell you where these things are 😂.
Jokes aside, yet another fantastic geo detective, cheers mate!
It's not a joke if you literally say the truth, bro.
I like Szeged Gulaz
Love that he finds it nevertheless
Visible text is so important. I got Tallinn quickly by searching "The Old Town" steeple
Yeah same. It must have been a filter by location I'm surprised he completely ignored the answer right in front of him
@@imwahyou2 yep, got it instantly with "thin tower old town"
As a finnish person, I knew the first one immediately. That tower has stuck onto my head from the multiple "beer trips" I've done there.
"Beer trips" ahahaha
im from Estonia and i was immidiately knowing it was Estonia too
yep, another estonian here. Took about half a second ;D
kyl siinä tajuaa samantien et mistä kuva on ku on suomalainen nimi ja ton näköstä paikkaa :D
as an American living in Finland, as soon as I saw the Finnish name and dreary looking city I knew it was Tallinn. Never been there, but Finns always go to Tallinn and that's exactly what it looks like in my head haha
Tom: "I won't give much away"
Also Tom: Literally appears to have the names of the videos showing in his file explorer 😂
You are the real detective here
Was just about to comment that!
I choose to believe he rewards those of us clever enough to notice!
can you give us the timestamp? I didn't see it :D
@@dimo97 during his intro you can see them
I love how Tom accidentally used image search because he doesn’t even know what it is
lmao
getting more familiar with it would probably really improve his speed
Didn’t he explain in a previous episode that he doesn’t wanna use image search because it would make things too easy
I saw the thumbnail and i immediately knew where this was taken! Never happened before, so I'm really excited to see how you did on this one 😀
"Old Town Church" brought up the one tower instantly. It wasn't exact on in the picture, but it's in the same city.
That "The Old Town" decal looks an awful lot like a Snapchat filter
Infuriating that he didn't mention it or use it in his initial search for the tower
And funnily enough, the filter is clearly for the church rather than the town hall
@@ryanbarnett9051 Some people have no fucking clue that it could be a Snapchat filter. People like me for example :P
@@ryanbarnett9051 I was playing along for fun and literally typed "the old town tower eastern europe" and found it in 10 seconds lol
yes not just me shouting 'old town'
Being Finnish myself, I knew the exact location of Juho's picture the moment I saw it. Strange how I recognize that spot better than most old towns in Finland
You don't drink much on the booze-cruises then.
i've been there once for one and a half days and i immediately recognized it too
"old town" was a dead giveaway for anyone who's been to Tallinn. the town hall itself is very distinctive too
Old towns in Finland are not that old. if you know what I mean.
Well you probably don't go to old finnish towns to buy alcohol all the time, or do ya?
Finally a location i recognized immediately, the Church of Szeged is very famous in Hungary, i have a picture on that bridge too, almost the same spot.
Love that Szeged church kept popping up in searches for first location :D
Locating your fans are the best part of the channel, for me. It takes the skill into a whole different level.
In NMZT, Tom gets these in 5 seconds. In “where am I” it takes 12 mins. He is a master at knowing the audience for each type of content. These vids are about exploration and (in a way) teaching/showing the detective work. It’s all part of the appeal. Well done, in my book.
Him being Finnish made Tallinn a very likely place for this photo to be taken from, as Finns go there via a short ferry ride for alcohol shopping :P
Lmao I love how every page that clearly tells you what city and country the image was taken in, you're complaining about it not being there. I love your videos and your character, Tom!
Man, I was so worried that one day someone will be in Hungary, and I'll miss it, while identifying Half Dome and Copenhagen in a second. Lucky me, Church of Szeged is quite unique to a Hungarian eye :D.
I am from Slovakia, and I am so happy, that you mention it 🥰
Tom is the most apologetic person on CZcams. You don't have to apologize for anything, you put out amazing content that is free! Take all the time you need and your fans will always be here for you!
Every time you call Czech Republic an eastern europe country, a barrel of beer in Plzen explodes and an angry dude puts on his sandals with his socks and starts looking for you. Great video as usual mate
Same with Estonia. It's Northern European..
Another of people tend to think of anything post-soviet as eastern Europe.
it is eastern eu
yeah but it ends in IA so it must be eastern ;)
22:08 it literally says Hungary in the page after the name of the place, but ok, Tom.
If I was allowed to watch only one thing the rest of my life, I would choose Geowizard all day everyday ❤️
Huh... That next one with the goat is very easy to find, surprised Tom didn't give it a shot immediately. Anyways, thanks for the vid mate looking forward to the next Straight Line Mission!
Took me one Google search. But I guess /hope Tom will add some more time and entertainment :D
Are we recording? Missed this, and a good old straight line mission. Bring back Greg 🙂
@Jenita Davis You trying to make me fail?
@@billygiles8538 lol
Tom finally sees the one photo of the Hungarian church, and goes "That's is US or Australia" 😂
This series is so calming and engaging. It might be the format, but I think it’s also your top notch demeanour and banter.
For the first time, I immediately got one. "The Old Town" and the building style tipped me off since I've been there once. Definitely can recommend visiting the old town in Tallinn
I've been to Tallinn, so I recognized that first one instantly. Nice to feel one step ahead for once! (Mind you, not that I would have gotten it if I hadn't, no chance lmao).
Also, great day to be called Julieta! 😊
Haha, image #2 was taken in my university town ;) I took this same bridge every day as my dorm was on one side of the river and the university buildings on the other :) And then stayed for a couple of years because I married a local girl.
(The church is amongst the most well-known and readily recognised cultural landmarks of Hungary BTW)
What a boon for Tallinn tourism, if they want it. I’ve never suddenly needed to visit a place more. What a beautiful city! 😮
I love this series, there's nothing quite like it on CZcams.
Also can't wait to see the new adventures, I bet they're gonna be incredible :)
Finally. Geo detective is back. Literally took me a femtosecond to click!🥳
That’s literally impossible
No, a smartphone can only do billions of operations per second and a femtosecond is 1⁄1 000 000 000 000 000 of a second.
@@Joemamahahahaha821 Perhaps I’m a particle of a femtolaser beam?💨
@@Z3t487 Perhaps I’m a particle of a femtolaser beam?!💨
@@toxictrumptube7763 The smartphone is too slow to click that fast, even if you are Wally West.
I stop everything for these videos - btw I am the “Cilla Whet”
Finns, claim your ”lol I knew it was Tallinn the second I saw it” ticket here 😂 Also, can we agree that the correct pronunciation of Juho is ”you ho” 👀
I knew where that spot was _exactly_ the second I saw the picture. Albeit I've lived in Tallinn for a a while... Väga tore linn. Finnish is indeed non-phonemic, but I'd say you-ho is pretty accurate if you keep it short and remember that in Finnish the primary stress is _always_ on the first syllable and secondary stress normally falls on odd syllables if any. So 'you' and 'ho' as the first ho in Santa Claus's ho ho ho.
I'm hungarian but its one of my favorite cities so I As soon saw the picture I immedietaly knew.
A Petersburger claiming a ticket too. Even though I've only been to the airport. I prefer going to the real Finland, not the wannabe.
I've been only once to Tallinn, I don't remember the tower, but the second I saw the picture I immediately thought of Tallinn.
Similar with the second picture, I kinda have me Budapest vibes (only Hungarian city I've been to). But the river/bridge seemed to small and I remembered Buda (the side of the city with most of the colorful roofs) to be more hilly.
I’m a swede but I’ll claim one of those tickets aswell.
Man, Tom sure is a geography wizard, but I feel like his google search skills fail him sometimes, I typed "Twin spired church" for the second photo and found the Votive Church of Szeged in under a minute. He overthinks the search terms way too much.
While the functionality of longer search terms was improved for the Google Assistant, searches of three words or less often remain superior.
His Google-fu really needed some ...
Twin-spiration
Yeah i think so too, also starting with very specific seaches. On the first one i just searched for "The old town tower" and instantly good pictures of it, finding it in street view was a task of 2 minutes. But i can understand the fear, with some of the harder ones he had. Also i just guessed it's a snapchat geo filter, unlikely that Tom knows what that is
I think he does it on purpose to some extent, a precise but weirdly worded guess has more chance of making for a fun video than getting it right too quickly
As a Czech, I too thought the Tallinn one was Czech. The church tower itself seemed a bit foreign but the streets are very similar
The street looks like the Czech republic in winter but I've never seen the tower and I know the city centre pretty well. Altough, there is a few more cities except Prague we could consider here. My guess was Slovakia but what about Austria? Could be an Austrian street as well, I guess. :-)
I thought it was in Hungary. Very similar looking towns here
My favourite straight liner!
These calm me so much, doing great work for anxiety sufferers mate. Amazing channel ❤️
The fact that I have a profile picture with that exact bridge behind me is mad 😂 Greetings from Hungary 🇭🇺
Lol! Actually that picture featured in the video was also my profile pic for a while :D
What’s up Tom! Was great having a chat with you in the pub whilst you were waiting for your curry! I’m looking forward to the straight line mission vid!
take your time with the videos man, the results will be worth it!
"There is a mission incoming"!! - that is what I like to hear!
"Not a million miles from what we're looking for."
I wonder if that's because it's the right building lol.
Didn't expect a Runescape reference
i also had my kiteshield trimmed
these are my absolute fav series/videos on youtube atm.
"Septagonal" cracked me up!😂
Tallinn: a German-built traditionally Lutheran old town
GeoWizard: looks Eastern European...
Bojler eladó :D Greetings to my Hungarian mates!
that translated as, “boiler for sale”. i assume that’s wrong? and if so, what does the phrase mean?
@@wolfzmusic9706 its exactly what it means :D its from the good old 9gag days, if you see something hungarian you comment this, cuz ppl be commenting shit everywhere
@@marci0309 oh lol. i think i’m probably too young to understand then. heard of 9gag but literally never been on it
Bojlert vennék :) már vártam, hogy legyen egy magyar kör
Juho is indeed a Finnish name, and no wonder their location was where it was (no spoilers!). For future reference the Finnish "J" is pronounced more like the English "Y", so "Yuho" is closer to the truth albeit not even close :D
I'm pretty sure Tom made that name up
@@tuurehu3392 I think only the surnames are made up
Ebglish is the exeption though and in most languages, the letter "j" is usually a voiced palatal approximant and not a voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate
Jeez, Szeged is my home town, it was awesome to watch this vid.
This is by far your best series.
you should pick like 25-50 of these photos do a live stream and have the community/comments help figure it out
I always love it when a video makes me feel quite capable at urban geography. The second I saw his name I also thought Finland. When I saw the street it was clearly the Baltics which gave me heavy Baltic Finland vibes a la Estonia.
I used the same thought process.
hey! Szeged was nice and on point, looking forward for the next one as I've had my hand on that sculpture this year :D
It was so fun to watch that from a person from Szeged
Hello, GeoWizard, i like this series very much :)
Just a very little thing: The Sz in Szeged is sounds like... Sand or Soda or separate :)
I'm from Hungary, but Szeged is a bit far away from me, but gorgeos place! Sorry for my bad english by the way, i not so expert.
Greetings from Estonia. The tower you saw is called Old Tom, because of the vane at the top.
That's where Tom's parents took the idea on how to call him!
The tower itself is rarely called that - it's just the spire of the Town Hall.
Tom's Rune Kiteshield comment made my day, Trying to get back into Old-school Runescape after almost two years away! Loved this video, a great watch and I learnt how beautiful talin is!
*Tallinn
:-D the first one I recognized right away because of the city wall and the tower. Just spent some days in Tallinn, beautiful town
It took me exactly 2:31 to find the first location - i wont spoil it but i just googled the exact thing that was written on that giffy on the photo and the city popped up :)
“Neglecting the BALtic states” - I don't know if that was on purpose or not, but I laughed!
Végre egy magyar helyszín a Geo Detective-ben :)
7:10 I think thats a snapchat filter you can use by turning on your gps on mobile
It's mainly use when you travel somewhere, and every city has a diffrent one
Mate, you might want to reupload, we can see video file names in the intro (like crossing roundabouts in Britain)
We have to delete it from our brain as well.
oh please let that be the magic roundabout in Swindon
@@georgerussell9118 I really want it to be the Gabalfa Interchange
Nice video! I will say the church in the second photo was undoubtedly constructed in the romanesque revival style. I have a similar church near where I live in the US :D
Cool! this is the first video I've seen from this channel, and I'm already subscribing! This looks like a fun exercise for the mind :)
Hi from Szeged.
Favorite series! That overlay seems to be a snapchat filter
it's so weird watching your videos for the first time, and the very first place you look at, is where I used to walk past on my way to work :D
I love these geodetective videos!! Keep it up
If you look at his recent folders while Tom's looking through the images at the start, the location for the straight line mission is spoilered.
So don't.
Don't look.
can we just take a minute to appreciate that Tom thought that heptagonal was septagonal
You can have either mate. No need to be so snarky
@@jonasstringer8699 calm down ya lemon
@@jonasstringer8699 Exactly - English is a bugger of a language for mixing Greek and Latin prefixes, especially in Science and Maths.
Man I love these videos I always look forward to the next!
me and my guy met on runescape. we are closing the gap after five years on the 13th of november :) we watch these together and that made me smile.
I love these videos, but your target fixation can be a bit much. You did well to find the photo but it literally says "Our Lady of Hungary is a twin-sprired church in Szeged" in the title above the image. Then below it you highlight the last word and say "Where is Szeged? Why don't they tell us?!" when the first two words in the description are "Szeged, Hungary" and also miss that three words before the Szeged you highlighted it says "twin-spired" again. Then you complain that they don't say it's a twin! I get that your brain is also trying to entertain us while you do this, but read whole sentences sometimes. The information is there!
So only one thing that really makes me write this comment: When You see a "tower" it's like a match o something thats makes You instantly think "church". And it's not always a case. That would make first photo (and maybe some more in the future) much easier - discovering/searching more options than churches. But, well, it's not a speedrun or a competition. What really makes me sad is that after You found that building from first photo, and it was clearly described as town hall, You still was calling it a church.
Also the tower was clearly octagonal, but it;s just my observation , irrelevant really. like this whole comment
I didn't realise it was a town hall either untill l read your comment just now. And i watched the whole video.
@@IvanCherganski 9:48 he literally says "Tallinn Town Hall"
Saw the photo with the animal, within 1 minute of googling found it! Thanks for teaching me how to google properly
I was in Tallinn 4 years ago for a Christmas weekend, stunning place well worth a visit I hope to go back and explore more
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Its totally different experience watching your videos when you know exact location of the picture from the first glance.
Greetings from Tallinn.
"You bastard, Darryl Brooks."
Words to live by there, Tom.
Huge thumbs up from Szeged!!
His FBI agent must be so confused by all those weird google searches